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How smartphones changes our presence in the family

I wouldn’t live without my iPhone, and if you ask most of my (extended) family members, they will probably say the same. But what I before saw as a tendency among teenagers, has now entered our family. For a long time I actually believed that as long as a group of people had the same social [...]

Google Groups makes it hard to give feedback

I enjoy the design line Google is adapting into all it’s lovely free apps. But some of the suffer for a too quick adaption. So I thought I would give them a hand with optimizing the very used “Google Group | Post question form”. But giving them feedback wasn’t easy. I looked for Google Groups [...]

Sponsored Facebook action kills the ticker

From yesterday Facebook started to sell stories to sponsors, only to be displayed in the ticker. Meaning that sponsored stories will be showen before others in your ticker.  I’m excited about to see how people will interpret these ads. Will people ignore them? Facebook has a big believe in sponsored ads, at least the marketing [...]

Stop thinking about what to say next

When you listen to somebody talking about a topic that you find interesting and engaging, it can be hard to just listen. The moment you start thinking about what to say next, you loose focus from listen and might miss some essential points and thoughts from the person you are “listening” to. Listening is incredible [...]

Why User Experience designer is a terrible job title?

User experience (UX) is about how a person feels about using a product, system or service. How would you design an experience? Let’s try designing an experience We want to design a car that creates the following user experience: “The perfect holiday car”. A car that will give the owners this feeling: “This car is the [...]

Your webdesign toolkit/skills makes you a great webdesigner

As a webdesigner you are a creator, and to create you need to master some tools. If you only master photoshop, I would never pick you for our webdesign team. Photoshop just don’t cut it (I’m actually considering to uninstall it, to prove my point). Yeah photoshop is great, but far from essential in webdesign [...]

G+ on pause

Why would you (Google) make it so hard for me to share my thoughts? I’m putting G+ on pause. It needs to evolve, before its usable! Why: G+ Haven’t developed and official “share on G+” button (and no it’s not good enough with a tab with +1′s). To share you need to click on this [...]

Email Prayers

Emails has grown old and wise, but people tend to use it like teenagers. Here is a list of my prayers, let them be heard: Stop using noreply@yourservice.com, it’s rude and makes me feel offended. Read Death of the “noreply” mailbox. Start sending emails inviting to dialog. Stop sending ridiculous long emails, do yourself, your organization [...]