I often present on various subjects but often the subjects contain abstract concepts that you can’t convey with a simple photo. I hate bullet points because they don’t visualize the subject and make the story more abstract. So through my different presentations I developed a style of graphics that could be build with the basic [...]

We are heading to a new social revolution. People communicate differently these days. With mobile phones, e-mail, chat, online socializing sites, hyves like myspaces, blogs and wikis we have a whole new kind of society growing in the world. People that are connected and free roaming, they are well informed and can filter good stuff [...]

Once this post would be written. My big unification post. What am I searching for… Well I was searching for the ultimate goal of design. Design has only one goal. To improve, to construct, to unify, to become one and simple. Design works with improving what already is. So it communicates better, so it works [...]

Ted released a real cool video today on the multitouch displays I talked about in the earlier days of this blog. For those who don’t know, TED is an event that brings together thoughtleaders, movers and shakers to share their ideas. I recommend you to check out some of their videos. These multitouch screens are [...]

What is it about academia that they want to abstract everything? Why are there so many abstract articles and books that are incomprehensable for normal people? I hate it when I discover a needlessly abstract article on a nice subject. Boring stuff I went once to a dutch academic institution for a computer science study. [...]

As humans who grow up, discover things and die we must share our knowledge to let it survive. Every human has to go through education to learn all the basics of being in a civilisation and enhancing our existing knowledge. Knowledge is passed on to evolve the human race. Through time we as a human [...]

Well it has been an interesting trip. Not only because of the conference but also all things I encountered there and my one day stay in Amsterdam. You meet a lot of interesting people when you travel alone. Well the Apply Serious Games conference was very interesting. I did not know what to expect there [...]

Why getting it? Multimedia, the stuff that I have learned to create, is all about getting the message/fun/information etc. accross. Getting it is the state you want your user to reach. Understanding getting it is needed to understand other users. So as a designer you have to get it first. Growing knowledge cloud. Some raw [...]

You get it or don’t. Somebody has laid out an experience and people get what is meant or not. It can be about getting the fun or getting the passion, but can also be about more serious goals like getting the knowledge that is teached. It is very difficult to get somebody else to get [...]