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Design and Engineering as one
This long read by Matthias is too good to get lost in my Mastodon favorites:
When design decisions are made in tools that have no concept of state, of time, of viewport, of the real unpredictability of content, you stop designing for the Web. You design a fiction of the Web. And then you hand that fiction to engineers, who absorb in the process all the compromises and assumptions that were hidden inside the original fiction matthiasott.com
As a person who's interest and professional education started in Graphic Design and then moved to working in and for The Web, this article rings so many bells and describes exactly why I always felt that I could give way more to the projects than the role that I often was asigned to ('needs only to be developed') in that waterfallish project flow.
#Bauhaus #Designengineering #DesignInTheBrowser #MatthiasOtt #prototyping #Webdesign
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"Looking for #European or non-US alternatives to popular #digital products and #services is a reasonable thing to do.
If you want to give some #alternatives a try, have a look at european-alternatives.eu or euroalternative.co, two #sites that list products, tools, and services in various categories, from #web analytics to web browsers to #Ai #chatbots. And Proton published a nice list of alternatives as well." (@matthiasott)
#europe #MatthiasOtt
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Painting With The Web - Matthias Ott @BeyondTellerrandConf Düsseldorf 2025
This talk and its overarching topic – what essentially is true "web design"? – is very dear to me.
We have to embrace the dance with the uncertainties"
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- Matthias Ott (paraphrased)I find myself caring less and less about the latest hot framework or ux design trend, but thinking more than ever about the foundations of well-crafted web sites: Leaness, performance, accessibility. Discoverability, URL-design, future-friendliness. Interoperability. Designing and building meaningful and helpful stuff that lasts.
tomarnold.de
- Me, A Designer for the Web#BeyondTellerrand #btconf #btconfDus25 #MatthiasOtt #talk #Webdesign
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"Many of us share that vision of a Web that lets everyone participate, a Web that is empowering and full of creative ideas, a Web that is home to respectful and welcoming communities, and a Web where people can truly own their work and the content they create and publish. Drowned out by the noise on the large, attention-grabbing, enshittificated social networks, that version of the Web still exists. On our personal websites." (#matthiasott)
#privacy #personalwebsite
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Twitter –> Markdown FTW!
Thanks to @jimgroom for sharing this post by @matthiasott my Twitter archive has now been converted from HTML to Markdown .
To do this, there is a Python script, created by @timhutton. As Matthias explains:
It converts the tweets in your archive to markdown with embedded images, videos and links...
https://jamesmichie.com/blog/2022/12/twitter-markdown-ftw/
#status #technology #archive #digitalfootprint #howto #html #jimgroom #markdown #matthiasott #python #timhutton #twitter