Matthias Ott

@matthiasott
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Independent user experience designer and web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX and web design engineering workshops. #searchable 🇪🇺🌍
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The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

Not sure who needs to hear this, but disagreements and conflict are often essential for doing good work. Explained very elegantly by @matthiasott

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

#design #webdev #collaboration #work

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

Release 1.2.0 of Webmention for Craft CMS adds a “Failed Webmentions” view for easier debugging and retrying with one click. 🎉

https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Release v1.2.0 · matthiasott/webmention

✨ Enhancements Added a Failed Webmentions view to the control panel. Webmentions that cannot be processed are now recorded with source, target, error message, attempt count, and timestamp instead ...

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Webmentions can fail for all kinds of reasons – broken microformats, unreachable sources, flaky CDNs – and debugging them from log files is cumbersome. So I added a new “Failed Webmentions” section to the Craft CMS plugin’s control panel that shows what went wrong. Already works on my machine™ 😁

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction

I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

Hello migraine with aura my old friend… 😘

Could be fun to try to visualize that. The patterns are different every time and a mix of blank spots, blurry areas, and rainbow stars or rather twinkling chrystal patterns slowly growing and wandering around my field of vision. ✨

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction

I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

📝 New post about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://daverupert.com/2026/03/people-are-not-friction/

People are not friction

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.

daverupert.com

I made a big upgrade to my little `font-size-adjust` tool. You can now upload a font, configure some variable axes if needed, and it will spit out the values you'd need for `ex-height`, `cap-height` or `ch-width`.

https://clagnut.com/sandbox/font-size-adjust-ex.html

#css #typography

Font metrics calculator for font-size-adjust

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