Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott — UX designer and web engineer in Stuttgart
Where Matthias writes about design, development, CSS, and the open web.
matthiasott.comInstead of trying to control every typographic detail, you are defining boundaries that make sure your design works well — regardless of the end device.
Matthias Ott writes about the craft of web design with the care of someone who genuinely loves the medium. Expect thoughtful pieces on CSS, typography, accessibility, and the open web — often drawing unexpected connections to music, architecture, and other creative disciplines. It's a blog that makes you want to build things properly.
Written by Matthias Ott since 2007.
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Continvoucly Morged Value
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model. Source: Vincent Driessen’s original Git branching model diagram...
Webspace Invaders
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining things that never makes you feel stupid for not knowing them already. He’s one of those folks who still has faith in the Web. “Hey, hope you’re doing well! I was going to link to something of yours for an article I’m writing for Piccalilli, but I keep getting a “This site can’t be reach...
To Affinity and Beyond
If there is one thing that I’ve learned in my roughly 30 years of working with design tools, it is that they come and go and that you should always stay curious and be open and ready to learn something new. As a teenager, I made my first clip-arty design attempts in CorelDRAW. Right after finishing high school, I dabbled in QuarkXPress during an internship at BBDO. As a student, I fell in love with FreeHand, and for my diploma project, I built everything in Flash. Years later, I was running work...
The Mystery of Storytelling
Humans love stories. Maybe that is because for thousands of years, stories were the way information was preserved and passed on to others, to the next generations. Maybe because they create community and collective culture. Maybe because they capture our imagination and speak to our fears and our dreams. Maybe that’s why you will find a lot of stories in the writing on this site. My reply to Jeremy a few days ago – opens with a story. My post about Frank Miller challenging others and himself – o...
Amateurs!
I have to confess that I am not reading that many books these days. Most of the time, I resort to listening to them in audio form. But every once in a while, a book comes along that is just too interesting not to at least give it a try. Reading Kai Brach’s excellent newsletter Dense Discovery, I came across such a (new) book by Joanna Walsh: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters....
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