Boris Müller

Dear Twitter community, for obvious reasons I will stop posting here. If you want to continue reading my texts and essays, you can do that over here: @boris" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vis.social/@boris borism.medium.com Over and out.

@defaulttopublic @FHPotsdam Haha! Good questions. That's my Nom de Plume.

@borism @FHPotsdam Congratulations! Please do not stop being cutting edge. Also, who is Boris Testmüller ?

The Interface Design programme @fhpotsdam is now officially 20 years old! Last Friday we met a lot (!) of our students and alumni from these last 20 years. Many super interesting discussions – but also plenty of coffee, cake and laughs! It was a really wonderful event!

Oh - and here is the obligatory selfie from the alumni party later that evening. Thank you guys - you are awesome! 😃

Fun to see that the @Medium list on ‘Typography deep-dives’ is currently 100% @FHPotsdam. (OK – it just contains 2 stories: my essay on typefaces = actors and a post about Calibri - designed by my colleague Lucas de Groot / @FontFabrik. 😁) @MediumStaff/list/typography-deepdives-62a921e1353b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@MediumStaff/l…

That’s a lot of tech for getting 2D in 3D. #WWDC23

I just published a new essay: ‘The VisiCalc-Moment of ChatGPT: 12 quick comments on the current ‘AI’ debate’. In the essay, I argue that ChatGPT has both similarities with VisiCalc - the first spreadsheet - and with photography. borism.medium.com/the-visicalc-m…

Polite UX-Graffiti in Potsdam #uxgraffiti

@AppleClassical Not super-new (from 2020) but it‘s more or less on repeat right now. classical.music.apple.com/de/album/15033…

#Friday is here! Any new classical music discoveries you want to share with us?

@AppleClassical Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. If you are curious about opera and classical music it’s a wonderful starting point! It’s short, accessible – and Dido’s Lament is one of the most beautiful arias ever written. classical.music.apple.com/de/album/25412…

What's the one work you think more people should know about?

Liebe Absolvent:innen des Studiengangs Interfacedesign der @FHPotsdam: Wir feiern im Juni unser zwanzigjähriges Bestehen und veranstalten ein großes Alumni-Event! Wenn ihr die Einladung nicht bekommen habt, schickt mir eine E-Mail oder DM! Gern re-tweeten!

Seems appropriate to post this today. I don’t think Charles III will ever be as cool as Charles II (›the King of Bling‹) but still – one can hope! #Coronation youtube.com/watch?v=IZhOjM…

If you want a quick introduction to the work of Frieder Nake and the book »Algorithmen & Zeichen«, you can read the english version of my foreword: borism.medium.com/frieder-nake-a…

The book »Algorithmen & Zeichen« with essays from Frieder Nake (@CarlCanary) is now available as open access! If you are into media theory, computer science, computer art and / or UX design: this book might be something for you! mediarep.org/handle/doc/205…

@tillnm @ftdata Haha! If you want a high-res version of the graph - see attachment. (I have a subscription.)

@borism @ftdata Oh! Of course! (I have a full series of rebuilt graphs from economist - and mixed them up 🤦‍♂️)

Interesting chart by @ftdata: Rotated scatter plot with same attribute on both axes but for different years. Unusual but nicely highlights the two groups. Wonder if slope chart was too messy?

.@AppleClassical – there is a mistake in you metadata. The following Album contains works by Händel and by Purcell. However, all tracks are attributed to Händel. The ones with a »Z« refer to the Zimmerman catalogue - they are compositions by Purcell. classical.music.apple.com/de/album/91602…

Thanks for launching @AppleClassical – I really like it! If you wonder why it makes sense to have a separate app for classical music, the short answer is: metadata. A longer answer by @mcelhearn can be found here: tidbits.com/2023/03/29/app…

My colleagues at the FHP and me produced an explainer video about our MA/BA program "interface design" - in German. Please share - we are always looking for talented students! youtube.com/watch?v=JJYZ26… @idpotsdam