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Microsoft slaughtered Skype, integrated its remains into the "Free" version of Teams and called it a day.

Music has never sounded better.

My friend Anthony and I were sitting on the stony beach of seaside resort Brighton, on our England reunion trip.

Good news!

With everything I have, I try to sleep as hard as I can.

My dad has always been an early adopter.

If you ever commit to writing a travel blog, describing a world trip that lasts 10 months, know this: it‘s a lot of commitment.

Far away from screens and laptops, an adventure awaits.

It lies in the nature of a user experience designer to think in terms of Human-Computer-Interaction.

Usability testing doesn't have to be complicated.

It's calm out.

Several months ago, writing basically fell to the ground and broke into a thousand pieces.

Being a perfectionist is hard work.

Vertical tabs are the answer.

When inspiration strikes, I'm in an elevated state.

We need to talk about country emoji flags.

Do you have a posting interval?

In a world that has gotten too fast for its own benefit, email poses a nice counterweight.

Please Look After My Dog For Me is a short film about late Bruce Taylor, who travelled through South Asia and apparently the Philippines in the early 80s.

Two days ago, after a decade of reliable service, my TV broke down.

"Llama 3.3 may display inaccurate or offensive information", says the tiny text shyly in the bottom of the chat input field.

I don't know what I did, but I broke writing.

Last week, the anniversary of my travel blog passed by unnoticed.

I woke up.

Sometimes, in my profound moments, I imagine myself in an interview situation.

For as long as I can remember, the TV had been sitting in the living room.

In 2023, I picked music to become the theme of my yearly reflection.

My girlfriend once told me that the sky in this city is remarkable.

"It can be done", I was convinced.

Blog Post Series connect individual blog posts by creating "series" dedicated to a specific topic.

It has become dark [on Phu Quoc island].

For anyone who loves my series about retro emojis as much as I do, I have good news.

Due to my obsession with British television this summer (Yes, I've finally watched The Crown), I've decided to adjust my writing to British English on this blog.

Ever since I left uni and started working, I had a strong sense of finding purpose in my career.

I haven't changed.

Shit, I actually forgot about the telephone emoji in the prequel to this post.

As a working citizen in Austria, you can be so lucky.

It's the most beautiful button I've ever seen.

The idea of taking sounds came to me, when I visited a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City.

I'm a simple guy.

I'm sure you're still wondering: Niq, where the bloody hell are you right now, Mr.

Even websites that go back as far as the early 90ies differentiated visited from unvisited links.

When creators want to have a little fun, they build something, which they don't put on display, but hide away in the details: The app icon of Apple's Voice Memos app shows the waveform of the sound that the word "Apple" makes if you speak it out loud.

All my life, I enjoyed being gone.

There's nothing out of the ordinary about my Tuesdays.

"Why are people so bad at picking profile pictures?"

Now, you are about to travel to an unknown place.

Even with all the navigation assistance imaginable, the real challenge of driving a scooter in Taiwan is the left turn.

A clean and minimalistic UI is what keeps my boat floating.

The fact that there's a fax emoji shows that someone out there must have had a similar train of thought: Yes!