Classics

These are – without exception – articles that have a timeless value and are good reads even if written months or years ago. It’s wisdom I’ve collected over the years, and I hope it helps you achieve your dreams and goals.

Information

• The web needs a new Yahoo

  On the need for a new directory service, as opposed to search engines.

Development

• Winning for users, not developers

  How to prepare the right arguments in the fight of native vs web apps.

• Why are you coding?

  Would you stop programming if you could achieve the same result without it?

• Better hardware for better devs

  If you are responsible for the equipment of your development team, you should read this. If you’re not, read it anyway and hand it to your boss.

• Real-world APIs

  Browser vendors and the W3C tend do de-prioritize the most important feature of any API: Its usability.

• On creating great products

  Why it’s OK to build products for new categories and versions of devices, and get rid of legacy code.

• Taking Usability to another level

  Usability does not stop at the consumer level. Learn about usability targeted at developers in this post.

• How library developers help defining standards

  The library developers are the ones that have the power to bring new features to web devs as early as possible – not the browser vendors.

User Experience

• Loosen up, websites!

  What do Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and CNN have in common? They’re filling my screen with white, blank voidness.

• Why you should stop using dialogs

  Dialogs invite you to be lazy. Learn more about why it’s best to avoid them.

• Why tabs are often a bad idea

  What are tabs good for? What are tabs not good for?

• The usability series: Responsiveness

  How to make your site really responsive, and how to create the illusion of speed.

• The issue with progressive enhancement

  On why I think concepts such as progressive enhancement are often very problematic than useful.

Productivity

• Gadget zombies

  Don’t become one! Learn how to avoid it, and how to stay and relearn to be productive.

• Unleashing your power with music

  How music can help you gain and maintain productivity, and how to find that special tune.

• If Walt Disney was running a web business

  How to use the little known Disney method, also called Walt Disney strategy to make you kick ass.

• ‘How to change the world’ series: Motivation

  How to get motivated and start the productivity circle!

• ‘How to change the world’ series: Dedication

  When you are motivated, you start working on something. But to actually finish the job, you need dedication.

Media & Games

• What’s left in making movie projections a lifelike illusion?

  How to get closer to the illusion of life. From frames to motion, about focus and blur, head tracking, and parallax.

• The journey of journeys – Project “Epic Journey”

  A game that is so social it creates friendships, strengthens them, and make people laugh, cry and celebrate their journey together – in real life.

• Music in games

  Why even today, you won’t hear much popular music in modern games, and what we need to do to fix it.

Entrepreneurship

• Why I would hire game developers for my startup

  While web developers have been whining for years and have been stuck in their despair, game developers never stopped to amaze me. Read why.