There's a new show on Netflix that is generating some buzz called Stranger Things. I haven't seen it yet but I have seen the opening credits. I'm interested in learning Adobe After Effects. That's why I always try to analyse animations to discover how it's done.

5 Design Principles for eHealth "I'll tell you how to make documentation easier. Throw all the computers out the window." That tip came from an ED doctor during some recent research. I laughed it off at first, but he wasn't joking. He went on to describe the battle that is recording patient notes.

I'm a sucker for controversial trade-offs. Companies that dare say "this one thing is more important than this entire set of other things people usually consider must-haves" take a shortcut to my wallet. Apple is the oft-heralded example. When the first MacBook Air came out, it garnered a hilarious amount of scorn and disbelief from the technorati.

An inactive checkbox is always a bit of a mystery to me. Why is it inactive? How do I get it to activate so I can select it? More often than not, it takes me a couple of tries fiddling around with other preferences to finally activate the checkbox and be able to select it....

Most creative work doesn't get the audience, or reception, it should. Maybe this is because we're under the misimpression that if we make something great, the world will pound a path to our front door. Hans and Eric talk about what it takes to make a buck, the need to connect with an audience, and whether doing these things might make you a sell out.

Project Ironman: the technical migration of the trivago hotel search's existing CSS core The article was originally posted on the trivago techblog. While our company and our application were constantly growing, we often ran into some consistency issues between code and design.

The Rio Olympics is here! And the world around us is going gaga over the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the various athletes competing in the events. From Michael Phelps continuing his gold-medal winning streak and raising the tally to 22 medals, to the first ever Refugee Team being inducted in the history of Olympics comprising athletes from several war-affected nations; people just can't seem to get enough of the Olympic Fever.

Dan (Head of Innovation) "Guys, we've been doing some great work, but I'd like to challenge you. Spend the next month observing human behaviour, in any context you like, synthesise your findings and come back to me with the number one problem you believe people are extremely motivated to solve, but haven't yet found a solution to.

I got an email from Brendan Foster the other day, a developer at the Australian agency The Competition. He was showing me an interesting CSS trick that helped him pull off a layout thing on a website he was helping work on for Margaret River Beverages.