Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋
Welcome to my personal website. I share here interesting links, some thoughts, some pictures I made and an archive of my talks. You may know me as a co-founder of Antistatique, a human centric web agency. Or as core-team’s member of Interaction 18, The 2018 Interaction Design conference.
Writing 💾
This is where I collect thoughts, URL and words on my web journey
Driving Hokkaido's West Coast to Wakkanai
Souvenirs from a road trip along the beautiful coast from the sea of Japan to the sea of Okhotsk
May 22, 2020
Traveling to this remote island called Japan
A series of links and some thoughts about Japanese discoveries
Feb 29, 2020
Simple is the web, and why I love it so much.
Through my 20 years’ experience of designing and building web pages, I learned to unlearn, to take some distances, to fight and also accept to lose for the better.
Jul 08, 2019
Linking 🌍
URL are extraordinary
Your website’s only as strong as the weakest device you’ve tested it on.
Left to your own device
🌍 https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/left-to-our-own-devices/
Web Design: The First 100 Years
There is this article I keep refering to. A good narative and some choice for you to make at the end. On which Internet you aspire to build, which Internet you’d like to have. Well “The Internet for people”.
🌍 https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.
🌍 https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-n …
Brutalism and Antidesign - in webdesign
These web-design trends are reactions against the perceived uniformity of web design. Brutalism can be used effectively in visual design, but antidesign should be avoided for most products.
🌍 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/brutalism-antidesign/
Teachings From Japanese Craftsmanship: What Is Enough?
These days we’re obsessed with scale and growth at all costs (and in nature the only thing that follows that dynamic is cancer).
🌍 https://www.gchicco.com/2019/11/14/teaching-from-japanese-craftsmanship-what-is- …
The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture
About the current Chrome supremacy ... we need diversity!
🌍 http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2019/the-web-cant-survive-a-monoculture/
Talking 🎩
Some ask me to go on stage and talk about design and web topics
Design Systems
11th UN Designers & Visual Communicators Meetup – ITU Headquarters, Geneva
Apr 27, 2018 – by Marc Friederich & Guillaume Berry
Design documentation
Digital Strategy and UX meetup Geneva – ImpactHub, Geneva
Oct 18, 2017 – by Marc Friederich
Sélectionnez votre pays. Quelle est votre langue ?
IxDA Lausanne – Lausanne
May 09, 2017 – by Marc Friederich & Guillaume Berry