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I switched jobs again. I joined Auto Trader a month ago. The decision to leave the previous company wasn’t hard at all. I’m getting used to this, and I don’t know if it’s good or bad. It’s kinda scary. But maybe in a good way.
I never had a goal of becoming a designer when I was growing up. Like most young boys, I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot, a fireman, a police officer,… whatever I was most interested in at particular moment. The last thing I remember I wanted to be was a “game designer/developer”. I just got…
Looking back, each year seems harder to me. Harder, but more rewarding at the same time. Every year I demand more from myself and every year I fail and I succeed. Each year brings hard times to overcome and pleasant times to enjoy. Each year makes me a better version…
If you asked me what a designer is when I was a kid, I’d probably reply: “Someone that designs clothes?”. That’s really the only kind of designer I knew back then. I joined an after–school class when I was 13. I first played around with Front…
“I don’t see it”, I muttered in frustration.“How can you not see it? It’s right here: 12…”, my schoolmate claimed comfortably.“I don’t see a 12, I see a 17…”, I replied in a growing frustration.
Last week, I gave a talk at Nyuko in downtown Luxembourg. They have this program called How to Start Your Startup which is basically a series of events. Their goal is to help fresh business owners and students successfully start their own companies.
“I don’t trust books like these”, said James. I was surprised by the blunt comment and replied with a short:“Why not?”“I don’t know… There’s something about the title that turns me off”, James replied.“Maybe it’s the cover in general…”, he tried to elaborate. “It looks…
Wondermags HQ office is located in a small town in Luxembourg. There’s a kebab shop around the corner. We like to go there very often, the whole team. But today I went alone. I took a book that I was currently reading with me — Do Good Design. The cover of the book with its’ red background and white…
I used to hate reading books. Well, not just books—reading in general. As a kid, I was supposed to read the books that were part of the programme in the elementary school. I think it was about five books per year. It was mandatory. I would read these books in the first few years but when I think of it now, that…
I read a lot. I didn’t until just a few years ago but I do now. An unexplainable shift of mind happened in my head in 2012. I have no idea where it came from but I wrote about it in the Edition x of this newsletter. I take reading so seriously now that I designed a systematic process for it.
Are you one of those that have a gazillion of tabs open in the browser? You need to find something among those tabs and all you can look through are those small icons? When searching for something you ‘stored’ becomes a major task itself, you know something’s wrong.
Before I switched to a Mac a few years ago, I had been using the Notepad++ text editor for all the coding I did. I never really did like Dreamweaver. For me it was too complicated by trying to be everything.
It’s 5 in the morning. It’s still dark and quiet outside. I’m sitting on the couch, wrapped in a blanket, writing this post and all I can hear is the birds chirping and a car or an empty bus that occasionally goes by. It’s very rare that it’s so peaceful in the middle of central London and…
