January 30, 2016
Functional Reactive Intuition - Swift edition

So, you’ve heard about reactive programming.Then you got discouraged, almost immediately.Like: is this guy really talking about switching on the observable of observables? I have no idea what’s going on.That’s all fine, we agree on one thing: peop...
January 09, 2016
Big S(tate) notation

This is an early and somewhat funny/incomprehendible post I wrote a long time ago about stateless / stateful components (not in a React, sense, but more in an OOP, object-sense).There’s something that bothers me a little bit:We have this useful th...
January 08, 2016
Making mistakes

For a long time, my profile said “I make complex simple”.Well, first of all, it would have been more accurate to say: “I try to make complex simple but I fail most of the time”.Also, I don’t like the super-confident picture “I make complex simple....
August 09, 2015
Post-text messaging?

Have you ever been thinking about this little symbol?I sometimes do. It gives me that anticipation, that sense of presence, which always makes conversations a lot more enjoyable.I have a question though.Why do we have this representation of a conv...
September 07, 2014
Anatomy of a touch interaction: Swipe-to-peep

You open up your messaging app.Question: Why can’t you just “peep” into the thread by swiping on a conversation cell like this?Today’s state of interaction design seems a bit swipe-obsessive, right?But really, why do people love to cuddle their ph...
March 25, 2014
Today’s mobile context-insensitivity

The supercomputers we’re carrying around don’t know what we are doing and what we are up to — and that’s a problem.I have an iPhone.The technology inside is so advanced that I can’t even imagine — and there’s no chance I can actually understand ...
January 25, 2013
Life in a startup incubator

(I wish I had read this blogpost before I’ve got into one;)Now there are so many chances to travel, form a company and spend a 3-month period somewhere in the world - more than 300 tech-only startup incubators exist at the moment.We ended up in Es...
January 01, 2013
Designing your personal identity

So you are a graphic designer and you think you need a personal identity - not necessarily to show off your skills, but because you need to have one.And designing it can cause a lot of problems. I, myself can’t even count the hours I wasted on exp...