Simple Truths About Personal Websites · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
Just read and enjoyed: Read-only web apps -
https://adactio.com/journal/20113
Read-only web apps
It’s fine to require JavaScript for read/write functionality. But have you considered a read-only mode without JavaScript?
Just had a 4:30–5pm meeting get cancelled and I literally stood up from my chair and pumped my fist in the air involuntarily. Doesn't get much better than that!
📝 New post: Migrating from Eleventy to
@getkirby https://levimcg.com/blog/migrating-from-eleventy-to-kirby/ — I migrated my static site to Kirby earlier this year and it's been a really wonderful experience so far!
Migrating from Eleventy to Kirby
I decided to migrate my site from Eleventy, a static site generator to Kirby a file-based CMS written in PHP.
Just read and enjoyed: The past is a foreign country -
https://adactio.com/journal/19974The past is a foreign country
…and we’ve got its cultural artifacts.
The design system mindset
There's so much truth to this tweet by Masato:
To me, design systems hiring is fundamentally broken.Companies do not have a vital way of searching for candidates specializing in design systems.And candidates cannot find DS job opportunities efficiently because of full of non-specialized job title
It's ok to need a day off
Sometimes the only way to avoid burning out is to stop what you're doing and lay on the couch.
Just read and enjoyed: The Creative Act: A Way of Being -
https://colly.com/articles/the-creative-act-a-way-of-being
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is an absolute joy. I’m not even halfway through, but I felt compelled to write about what it offers to anyone who considers themselves creative.
I finally downloaded Arc. I spent the morning setting it up and uh, it is very cool. I already set it as my default browser. 😍
