Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
So, what exactly happens to your body when you increase your daily step count? A single afternoon stroll can improve your mood
and ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. Walking, especially at a brisk pace, is thought to trigger the release of pain-relieving endorphins and curb the release of the stress hormone cortisol. Within weeks of adding
... See moreTED-Ed • Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell
My stance has evolved in other areas. I’ve become curious about tarot and I-Ching, viewing them as tools for self-reflection rather than divination. Sound healing intrigues me not for mystical reasons, but for its potential effects on the nervous system.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Where Are You on the Woo Spectrum?
A well-designed world is a better world. I love knowing that a thoughtful piece of user interface makes someone’s life go a bit easier, whether it’s designing a menu that’s accessible to someone with low vision or watching my seventy-one-year-old father intuitively use an iPad for the first time. Good design has the power to change lives in big and
... See moreMike Monteiro • You're My Favorite Client
Design Communication and How to Sell Design
On the value of design
Probably the biggest lie told in schools, though, is that the way to succeed is through following "the rules." In fact most such rules are just hacks to manage large groups efficiently.
Paul Graham • Lies We Tell Kids
Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude... A t every step of communication technology, textual encoding comes first, everything else after. Because it's vastly cheaper on a symbol-by-symbol basis.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this sort [sic] or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can... See more
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 194...
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
... See moreA good rant, on how nothing makes sense, by Shalom Auslander. It reminds me of On Bullshit’s opening line: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
The best presentations don’t just tell people something—they tell them the same thing again and again but in different ways. They use analogies to help people understand.