That Austrian Guy

My name is Manuel. I am from Austria, Vienna. I am the co-founder and designer of a hosted continuous integration and deployment service called Codeship. Here I will mainly post about design and tech. You can follow me on twitter @manualwise

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MW: Still the number one.

#notwolfgangschuessel

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Creating Repeatable, Measurable Marketing Building Blocks

Learn about the system the Codeship Marketing team uses to create quantifiable, repeatable Marketing Experiments and dow…

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Staff Lists: The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So Far (2010-2014)

From Drake to Beach House to Deafheaven to Sophie to Grimes to Cloud Nothings to, yes, Kanye—our picks for the ...

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Can We Ever Know If Online Advertising Really Works?

"The problem, according to Tadelis and others, is that much of the data websites generate is more or less useless. Some of the problems are practically as old as marketing itself. For instance, companies like to run large ad campaigns during major shopping seasons, like Christmas. But if sales double come December, it’s hard to say whether the ad or the holiday was responsible."

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Perks

When perks become the primary focus of recruiting and retention discussions, that may be a sign you’re lacking the environment great talent is actually seeking out.

Great talent isn’t looking for free snacks. They’re looking for meaningful work, clearly defined (and matching) values, brilliant peers, and an environment where they can do the best work of their lives. 

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New Report Reveals Just How Drastically Brand Engagement Is Plummeting on Facebook

According to a new report from Simply Measured, the total engagement for the top 10 most-followed brands on Facebook has declined 40 percent year-over-year—even as brands have increased the amount of content they're posting by 20.1 percent.

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Giving Animations Life

Using Bounce.js and classical animation concepts to bring life to user interfaces.  

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UX Crash Course: User Psychology

My mission for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. In January, hundreds of thousands of people did the original UX Crash Course and it was translated into Spanish,...

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Great advice that doesn't only work for chess, but for life in general:

"Resist the temptation to pursue an immediately attractive move, since that type of move often leads to trouble down the road."

“It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at” 

"If you want to become a great chess player, your ability to recognize and utilize your emotions is as important as the way you think.”

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only examples designs, components, ideas, logins, paterns, tabs, toggles, registers, lists, galleries, comings

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Seeing Spaces – Bret Victor

What if we designed a new kind of "maker space" -- a space that isn't just for putting pieces together, but also for seeing and understanding a project's behavior…

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And why iOS 7's icon is nicknamed the "uploader" - What do each of these symbols have in common? They are all trying to convey the exact same action - share! Sharing to a social network or via email is a ubiquitous action nowadays but designers have still not been able to reach a consensus on what symbol to use to represent it. Not only does each major platform use a different icon, but they've each witnessed changes over the years.I have spent sometime thinking about this, trying to figure out which symbol best conveys sharing to the user. Uploader - iOS 7 I first saw this share icon when Apple announced iOS 7 on stage at WWDC 2013. I immediately re-created it only to discover that other people hated the new symbol. The primary issue is that the iOS 7 share icon looks far too much like an upload symbol. If you place it side by side with the symbol for downloading, it's immediately apparent that the iOS 7 share icon is quite confusing. The upward pointing arrow is the exact inverse of the download icon and the natural ass...

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Some useful stuff in there. 

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It's an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: The posting of the attention slide from Mary Meeker's state-of-the-Internet slide deck. I guess I can cut and paste from last year's post: For those who don’t know it, Meeker — formerly of Morgan Stanley, at VC firm Kleiner Perkins s…

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