Rogier Bikker - Articles

Business Behind Free Excerpt

Rogier Bikker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:04:20 +0000

Business Behind Free is a research project on online business models that I’m involved in. Through research and expert interviews we’re analyzing the current state and try to foresee future trends on online business models.
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Hourly report of a day in 2020

Rogier Bikker — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:31:32 +0000

This post is about a regular day. 12 years from now. What will change? Will a regular day be very different from now? Will we even fly around in our own spacejets?
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I conclude: China is (really) the place to be

Rogier Bikker — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:01:23 +0000

I just came back from the China Innovation Trip. In this post a quick roundup on what I’ve seen and how it inspired me.
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Coming up: China innovation trip

Rogier Bikker — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:10:12 +0000

Together with about 30 people I will go to Shanghai and Chengdu to visit internet-related companies and meet lot’s of inspiring people.
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New visual identity

Rogier Bikker — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:58:41 +0000

Since today I’ve got a new visual identity. I’ve been busy with it for quite some time and this is the result: clean, blue and fresh.
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User Experience Design and Research at Microsoft

Rogier Bikker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:17:16 +0000

Yesterday Peter and I attended a small User Experience Design conference by Microsoft called Pretty (and) Smart: User Experience Design and Research at Microsoft. The speakers where Sander Viegers and Arne De Booij. In this post a short overview of what has been said.
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User Experience Design internship at Lostboys

Rogier Bikker — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:07:12 +0000

For the next 4 months, I´ll work as User Experience Design intern at Lostboys (LBi). Starting today.
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Wireframes: the end of visual interface design

Rogier Bikker — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:17:49 +0000

With wireframe design becoming more popular to increase the usability and UX of websites I believe that it’s the end of the term visual interface design, wireframe skinning it is!
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Prefer reading from paper?

Rogier Bikker — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:39:28 +0000

Last week I created a printed portfolio to take with me to internship interviews. For those I won’t meet in real life, you can download my print portfolio in PDF format and print it yourself (not available anymore). This made me wonder, why don’t more websites offer a PDF version of their website?
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Grids: not for every designer

Rogier Bikker — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:31:16 +0000

I’m a big fan of grid based design. Grids create connections and coherence between elements. But not everyone designer shares this preference with me. That depends on his or her position between rational and emotional thinking.
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