After three years of working as an Interaction Designer and helping clients to create understandable visualizations and usable applications, I decided to revive my academic work. In February 2012 I will start my studies as Master of Arts in Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In the Field of Excellence Interaction I will work for 18 months on a design research project in the area of dynamic, interactive information visualization. → read on

I am very excited — no, I am thrilled to be speaking at this year’s SXSW Interactive!

South By, as the cool kids call it, is one of the biggest festivals and features five packed days of presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, networking events and special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer. → read on

What’s the future of magazines on the tablet?

This is the question that will be answered by more than 100 students of the Design Department of the Zurich University of the Arts. In an interdisciplinary project, students from fields like Visual Communication, Industrial Design, Scientific Visualization or Interaction Design will collaborate to explore concepts and approaches on how to utilize the new possibilities provided by tablet computers like the iPad or Galaxy Tab. → read on

I am happy to announce that I will be teaching Usability and Web Design in the newly created course for Online Marketing at the HSO. Our goal is to enable participants to develop and coordinate holistic online marketing concepts. → read on

I took the some time during an extended weekend to finally refine the design of this website. What started as the idea of giving it a fresh look ended up in creating a design solution that spans over multiple web properties, changing the domain name and building a new microsite from scratch. → read on

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my own company Interactive Things. We provide design, production and consulting services in user-experience design, interface design and interactive media. For more details about us, the thoughts that led to this developement and our future let me point you to the related blogpost.

I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new website over at datavisualization.ch. As you can tell by the domain name the content is all about data and information visualization. It evolved from our research blog, we used to gather the resources for our bachelor’s project.

Beside our own continuing research in this field, we document the newest creations by some of the smartes people around. While you’re there be sure to check out the dashboard we’ve built to monitor this agile community and stay on top of the cutting edge of information.

Theinfo.org and the superb twitter scrape from infochimps are the newest additions to the datazoo.

The redesigned coundco wesite I’ve worked on just launched. I’m glad for all kinds of feedback.

After using the incredible powerfull Lifestream plugin on our new corporate website over @ coUNDco.ch I’ve decided to upgrade my “Elsewhere” stream to fully display my recent activities on the web. From Tumblr.com to Slideshare.com and from GITHub.com to Last.fm and back. Have a look, hopefully you’ll find something use- or joyful.