Choosing a font size depends on the application, where it appears and what purpose it has. Street signals need to become readable from a far distance, business cards need to be readable when you are holding one in your hand. …

Why is America longing for a time that never was? — President Obama did what everyone expected from him during his last speech. He showed decency, persistently appraising the formidable qualities America projects on itself. …

Starting January 20, I will be turning off Facebook Messenger, Skype, WhatsApp and every other chat app I have been using in the past decade. I will switch to Signal for private messaging and to ProtonMail for my private emails. — Wait a minute, you may be thinking. Aren’t private messages already private? You are talking to everyone There is a scene in the TV series “Halt and Catch Fire”, which is about the beginnings of the information revolution that started with computers. In the first episode of the third series, called “Valley of The Heart’s…

Considerations for creating a revolutionary product, before you begin with coding, building, marketing and selling it — In my last post about product development, I wrote about involving people in the process of defining your idea framework. It built on the premise of working with market research and asking people how they are experiencing existing products. …

A simple guide for startups, to consider, before you begin with coding, building, marketing and selling — Products, services, delivery-, wholesale- or resale-businesses, software as a service, subscription based models — all business models have one thing in common: they are about a market that demands something, and this market consists of people. Which means whatever you are offering, to make it a success it needs to…

If you are running a startup before funding, you are no stranger to minimalism. You are used to make everything happen with minimal resources. Economy is one reason; you need to get far with minimal spendings. …

In the startup world, a lot of things are important. But there is only one thing that really matters: moving forward and be successful. You have an idea, a vision and a goal, and you want to materialise everything you have envisioned. You need money and resources, and you need…

Quartz recently released its first app that introduces a Conversational User Interface, not just to set up the app, but presenting news like chat. This approach was heralded as a breakthrough by tech media and embraced by many of my peers in the UX community. I think it was a…

How product design, rewarding user experience and habitualness form the decisive moment of successful apps — Wouldn’t it be great, if you could stream video directly to Twitter? What? It doesn’t sound exciting? I’m sure you can post a link of streams created with Ustream. And chances are, someone has made a direct video streaming app already. …