Matthias Ott

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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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“So what you’re doing is actually more valuable than what I do: you’re doing the things only humans are good at.”

Yeah, that’s called “actual intelligence”. 😉

The first reply to my newsletter issue on AI flooding the web and the value of human curation is … by a Chinese LLM. 😂✌️Well played …

Great to see that @btconf is almost sold out! 🎉🖤

Again: Who’s going to be there, too? Hands up! 🤚

30 tickets left. Better be quick than sorry. #btconf Düsseldorf. https://btco.nf/tickets
Tickets for beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf 2026

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

beyond tellerrand Events

Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨

Curators.

✷ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by @henry

With links to posts and tools by
@anarodrigues, @rachelandrew, @adactio, @anildash, @davatron5000, @manton, @robin, and @zeldman
Thank you all for keeping the open web alive! ✊🎉

https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators

Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange,...

Own Your Web

I wasn’t quite satisfied with it yet … so I’ll send out the issue a bit later. Which means there is still more time to sign up! 🎉😜

👉 https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

Own Your Web

Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, best practices, hacks, links, books, tools, and other high-quality insights I found or explored. Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ❤✊ Free. No spam ever. You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you consent to my use of your email address to stay in touch with you, as provided in my Privacy Policy.

The agents (of non-enterprise customers) were burning too much money: GitHub tightens usage limits, removes Opus from the Pro plan, and pauses new sign-ups for Copilot individual plans.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.

The GitHub Blog

It’s been a while… but how about a new #OwnYourWeb newsletter issue, going out tomorrow? 😊

https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

Own Your Web

Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, best practices, hacks, links, books, tools, and other high-quality insights I found or explored. Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ❤✊ Free. No spam ever. You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you consent to my use of your email address to stay in touch with you, as provided in my Privacy Policy.

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott

We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer
Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉