KonzeptioNerd

Agency Workflow 1.0

When Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, first enters the garden outside the house behind her mirror, she finds things quite curious indeed. She walks around, talks to some rather haughty flowers, until she encounters the Red Queen. From here, things become deceidedly weird.

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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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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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Featureitis

Dan Saffer at adaptive path blog has an excellent (though lengthy) comment on the feature overload debate:
[...D]on’t play in the features game at all. Because let’s face it: most features are commodities that will likely be replicated eventually. Instead, it is about the connection between the features that will create both product loyalty and product [...]

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Early Konzeptionerds

In the neolithic section of the National Museum of Archaeology on Malta, among the countless stoney representations of wide-hipped women with individual hair-styles, you can find a piece of limestone, about the size of the palm of my hand. It is a to-scale model of the tempel of Ta’ Hagrat. If Malta is not on [...]

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