Playful Project-Kickoff
“Holger is gaming” – that has been my Skype status for the last couple of weeks. Granted, I work at the games company Bigpoint . But the true reason for my status is that currently I am trying out playful … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Do more insights equal better results? When neuroscience meets user research…
The hype of using neuropsychological methodologies finally arrived in the area of user research, with a particular focus on user testing. One of this year’s UXCamp Europe presentations was titled “next level of usability testing”, advocating the use of Electroencephalography … Continue reading
PHP Usergroup Hamburg Revival at Bigpoint
Once upon a time there was an active PHP user group in Hamburg, with interesting presentations and enough active members to have a meet-up once a month. This may sound like a fairy tale, especially since there has been no … Continue reading
PHP Conference Berlin Wrap-up
Last week the International PHP Conference (short IPC) took place in Berlin. It’s one of the biggest PHP conferences in Germany. I attended for the second time and wanted to share my experiences. First of all the conference was well … Continue reading
Atlassian User Group Meeting at Bigpoint
Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence are quite important for our daily work. These highly-customizable tools are not something you install once and then never touch again. You need to optimize and develop them to get the best out of … Continue reading
UX Get Together at UX Camp Europe 2012
Socializing, celebrating, a manifold bouquet of great sessions and a horde of inspiring people – these were my impressions of UXCamp 2012! What is the UXCamp Europe anyway? The UXCamp brings together Europe’s foremost user experience (UX) thinkers and practitioners … Continue reading
Minimizing Data Size in 3D Browser Games (About Hardware Instancing)
This is the first part of a series of blog posts about Minimizing Data Size in 3D Browser Games (Intro), where we’ll look specifically at how hardware instancing is used for sharing and reusing 3D data as much as possible … Continue reading
I might play this if I were younger – Five learnings from conducting a user experience study with children
Children and teenagers make up a significant share of browser gamers. According to studies by the Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware, 20% of German online gamers are 19 or younger. Yet, due to parental consents, special invitations time restrictions, etc., it can be very … Continue reading