Making-Of: Fortune Table
Today, the German design magazine WEAVE features a short article on the Fortune Table. That’s reason enough to write a blog post explaining some basics on how we created the multitouch project...
View ArticleA Socio-Scientific View on the Slackline Community
For a recent project I did user research on a somewhat special target group: slackliners. Beeing a slackliner myself, I already had some insights into the sport of slacklining and its community but...
View ArticleWireframing for Mobile with Balsamiq
There are many wireframing tools out there. I’ve been working with Balsamiq Mockups for a few years now and it became my favorite tool for the job. The software is easy to learn, incredibly fast and...
View Article“MIDnight Circus” Exhibition 2013
Although the video above is already a couple of month old, it’s still worth sharing! It provides some impressions of the media arts exhibition by the students of the Master’s degree course “Media &...
View ArticleUI Pattern: Natural Language Forms
For a recent project, I did some research on a UI pattern called “natural language forms”. Although those kinds of forms aren’t exactly a new phenomenon, they’re pretty rare. In fact there isn’t even a...
View ArticleResonate Festival: Künstler, Nerds und Ćevapčići
Anfang April 2014 fand zum dritten mal das Medienkunstfestival Resonate in Belgrad statt. Drei Tage lang ging es um die Verknüpfung von Kunst und Technologie. Mein Arbeitgeber SinnerSchrader hat mir...
View ArticleSocial Network Vizualization using Facebook and Gephi
This is the visualization of my personal ‘social network’, based on my Facebook friends in early 2013. Each colored dot represents a Facebook friend and each line between two dots represents a...
View ArticleA simple guide to use OSC in the Browser
In this article, I’ll explain how you can send and recieve OSC messages with your browser. We’ll use an open source app to send OSC messages from a smartphone to the browser via Wifi. A little...
View ArticleOwnCloud 9 bei Strato installieren
Kürzlich habe ich OwnCloud 9 bei Strato installiert und bin dabei auf den folgenden Fehler gestoßen: Error while trying to create admin user: Failed to connect to the database: An exception occured in...
View ArticleSyncing Calendar and Contacts between Mac and Android via OwnCloud
I’ve recently installed OwnCloud 9 to sync my calendar and contacts between my Mac and Android phone. I didn’t want to use iCloud or Google anymore and OwnCloud promised to be a great alternative. The...
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