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Matthias Ott

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Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops. 📧 Newsletter: https://ownyourweb.site 💻 Website: https://matthiasott.com

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · May 16

Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @beyondtellerrand.com. (🤯)

My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7...

Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025

YouTube video by beyond tellerrand

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18h

✍️ New post: Listening Closely 🎻

#blogtober #web #craft #music #Hadelich
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Listening Closely · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 11h

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 17h

Thanks, Scott! 😁

Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18h

✍️ New post: Listening Closely 🎻

#blogtober #web #craft #music #Hadelich
matthiasott.com/notes/listen...

Listening Closely · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 23h

🎁🥳🎂

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Marc Thiele @marcthiele.com · 1d

What a wonderful article by @matthiasott.com that speaks just out of my heart! Thanks for writing this, Matthias! matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...

The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 1d

💚🤗 Thanks for everything you do, Marc!

Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 1d

✍️ New post: Compressed Fluid Typography

#blogtober #css #web #typography
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Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 2d

We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them.

www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 2d

✍️ New post: The Lifeblood of the Web

Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙

#blogtober #web #conferences #community
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The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 5d

Pleased to share the final full line up for 2025.ffconf.org

It's a day that you'll come away from inspired and full of ideas.

The speakers for FFConf in a grid with topics: distributed power, inclusivity by design, design systems and web components, privacy and ethics, the good internet, ai brain drain, code and culture and finally: journey to coder.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 2d

Thanks Dave! 🤗 I’ll add that link to my post as well 👏

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Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk · 2d

Other places you can meet the peple who make up the web:
2026.stateofthebrowser.com/communities/

Communities | State of the Browser

If you have ever attended one of our event, then you will know that community is very important to us. Here are a list of different types of communities that echo our ethos and standards you may find ...

2026.stateofthebrowser.com

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Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk · 2d

Great words by @matthiasott.com, someone I'm delighted to call a friend

> the Web isn’t just a bunch of servers and websites. The Web is the people building it. The Web is community.

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The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 2d

Thanks for the link! 🤗💚
(That preview image isn’t really the right one for that post, though. It’s the vacuum tube from the inside of the mixer component … 😉)

A screenshot of the style mixer on matthiasott.con

Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 2d

✍️ New post: The Lifeblood of the Web

Because conferences are just 🔥🎉💙

#blogtober #web #conferences #community
matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...

The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

matthiasott.com

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 3d

The majority of the tech industry has no valid vision how to contribute to a liveable future on this planet. Their dystopian fantasies don’t meet human needs. That’s why we’ll keep sliding from one bubble to the next. Everything has to be artificially inflated to hide the abyss of meaninglessness.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 3d

✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?

#blogtober #ai #technology #society #humanity
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What Could Go Wrong? · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 3d

✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?

#blogtober #ai #technology #society #humanity
matthiasott.com/notes/what-c...

What Could Go Wrong? · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

matthiasott.com

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 3d

Too bad Bluesky doesn’t seem to periodically update those og image previews. I worked so hard on that one 😂 – but then posted without waiting for the Craft image transform queue job to be finished …

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