Refine

The new design is based on the same grid as before. A new color palette and some small adjustments served the goal of creating a simple, elegant and friendly interface. To replace the characteristic Clarendon headlines I’ve used the excellent Netto by Daniel Utz — a simple and simply beautiful font. It’s also our corporate font at Interactive Things, thus creating a bridge between the two domains.

Unify

I applied the fundation of the new design to my Tumblr and Twitter account. The consistent look ties the three domains neatly together. Each one has specific requirements though, that I addressed in the design for the application at hand.

Rename

The domain Artillery.ch served as my brand for freelance work in times before Interactive Things. With the establishment of our company, the freelance times are gone and the name became superfluous. As I still need a space to share the things that keep me busy at daytime and up at night, I took the chance to get my personal domain BenjaminWiederkehr.com.

Allocate

Given the fact that my stuff on this site could be irrelevant to someone in search of me, I came to the conclusion that I need a central hub that helps direct the visitor to the right place to interact with me. This could be the corporate site of Interactive Things, my professional CV at LinkedIn or maybe my profile on Facebook. That’s why I built the tiny one-pager at benjaminwiederkehr.com and moved the site that you’re currently reading to blog.benjaminwiederkehr.com.

I goes without saying that changing the top-level domain (and my main e-mail address) takes some time and a lot of “Change Account Settings” link clicking. It’s a work-in-progress and if you see something quirky, please let me know.

The Bunker.li has changed it’s functionality and became a multi-user blog of a small group of creative individuals. The content ranges from design snippets to discussions regarding the design itself, the design industry as well as design education.

The Artillery Lab is the predecessor of Artillery.ch. It serves now as a playground and field for experiences with all kind of web related technology.

For the work on my bachelor’s thesis I’ve set up a simple research / documentation / presentation blog for my mentors, involved experts and my co-worker Christian Siegrist and me where we store our thinking. It emerged that this workflow was very good to stay up to date with our research for external people and helped us communicating less directly and therefore beeing more productive.

The Website is now publicly available. Please note that all of the content is written in german.

Bei Refine geht es darum, bestehende Interfaces zu analysieren und durch kleine Anpassungen oder eben “refinements” Verbesserungen in der Benutzbarkeit zu erreichen. Wichtig hierbei ist die Erkenntnis, dass oft durch kleine und kleinste Anpassungen grosse Verbesserungen möglich sind.

Bunker ist eine Plattform für Gestalter in Ausbildung. Es werden Themen als Aufgaben vergeben und junge Gestalter können diese Themen frei umsetzen und erhalten so Feedback, Präsentationsmöglichkeit und Motivation neben der Ausbildung Projekte zu realisieren.