KonzeptioNerd

Royal videocast

Last year, it was podcasts. This year, it’s a dedicated YouTube-channel (The Royal Channel). H.M. Queen Elizabeth II is very onviously aware that royalty is a media asset.
And no surprise, as this year’s Christmas Broadcast reminds us: Even in 1957, a very black and white Queen greeted those of her compatriots who lived in [...]

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Faster than the Internet (almost)

Home for Christmas, I got to watch a DVD with filmed footage of my hometown in the days immediately after the end of the war in May 1945. What struck me most were images of the central train station, May 8 or a couple of days later, absolutely reduced to rubble and bands of twisted [...]

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If the great philosophers had been user interface designers (pt. 3, Oscar Wilde)

Although an information architect at heart, Oscar Wilde spent much of his life working as a graphic designer, trying to disprove common fallacies of interface design by blatantly extolling them.
However, the finer points of his humor were by and large lost on colleagues and clients alike who held him as one of the greatest proponents [...]

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Intranet 2.0

Yet another article I’ve been working on earlier this year (together with BlueMars’s Tobias Kirchhofer) has made it between cardboard covers at last:
“BlueMars Intranet-Relaunch nutzt Web-2.0-Techniken” in: Frank Martin Hein, Elektronische Unternehmenskommunikation, Deutscher Fachverlag 2007.
We’re in good company with contributors from businesses such as Microsoft, Bertelsmann AG, Allianz SE, Meta Design, Kaufhof, Philips, SAP or [...]

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Advertising to Elves: new article on Ingame Advertising

Sabine Raffel, media-planner and engaging presenter (Raffel Media | Media Beratung, Strategie und Planung) and I have written an article for Torsten Schwarz’s Leitfaden Online-Marketing.
“Ingame Advertising - Neue Wege zur Zielgruppe” (IGA - New Approaches to Your Target Group)
The thing about print is that the facts you base your ideas on are often daten by [...]

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Web design defined

Jeffrey Zeldman defines web design:
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.
(A List Apart: Jeffrey Zeldman, Understanding Web Design)
That’s quite a way from “web developers make the web work, web designers [...]

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