Not every great idea or product gets the attention it deserves. Nowadays you have to buy the attention. Everyone who’s telling you to just keep pushing great content and eventually you will earn a fortune is hiding the fact that you also need to advertise. You need to spread the word and you need a b…
Read it! It only takes about 3 minutes and 18 seconds.This article speaks to me on so many levels. I’ve had similar experiences throughout my career and what Tim is describing is for me the path to become a great mentor. The same applies to Project Managers, Content Creators, Developers and Strategists. They always work in a team and/or the influences of other team members make a product better. Every designer needs to read this article!
I am still reading this article (it’s very long) and I encourage you to read it, too. It’s a very good summary of design observations and collection of tools you should probably try out this year if you haven’t already. Happy reading!
Haraldur Thorleifsson (what a name!) has written his review of 2018 and what his company Ueno did. Ueno grew pretty fast and with rapid growth you face a lot of challenges and have to introduce more and more processes. I know that feeling! It’s always great to not read the usual “we did this and it was all amazing” but to also read about the struggles on the way. I had fun reading this review.
Craig Mod wrote a fantastic article on Wired about how he got his attention back. Because I am also removing myself from Social Media more and more this article gives me enough motivation to proceed. When you are also thinking about reducing your Social Media and Internet time, I encourage you to read it.
So far the year 2018 has been a great year. It also has been exhausting, challenging and demanding though. Mostly because I still am getting used to being a dad, even after one year – holy s***! I think that is because of the intense development of children in their first year. You think you a…
Read it! It only takes about 5 minutes and 29 seconds.A couple of weeks ago I started baking sourdough bread. I never thought baking would be a thing for me but I was always fascinated by good bread. You don’t need a lot of ingredients to produce it, yet it is a true craftsmanship and not many bakers know any more how to bake bread that doesn’t taste lik…
Read it! It only takes about 6 minutes and 13 seconds.I bought a coffee machine yesterday. Before yesterday we used a Chemex in combination with a hand coffee grinder at home. So that means I had to workout every weekend to brew some coffee. There was also a time when I did an Instagram video of the coffee dripping. That video was nice, because I also…
Read it! It only takes about 1 minute and 9 seconds.When you think about editorial design, the first thing that comes to mind is the article or more specific the article template. I’d say an article template counts for nearly 80 percent of the user experience thus you have to make it nice. What the article used to be Looking back a few years an a…
Read it! It only takes about 5 minutes and 45 seconds.All I know is that I know nothing. – Socrates, Apology Because sharing knowledge got so incredibly easy with the rise of the internet, almost everyone has something to say and share today. Medium is becoming more and more popular and is inviting everyone to write and share their thoughts, a…
Read it! It only takes about 4 minutes and 15 seconds.