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Hi, I’m Matthias Ott, independent user experience designer, web design engineer, and teacher for interface prototyping. I run workshops on web design and web accessibility and write the Own Your Web newsletter.

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Web Design Engineering

I design and build modern and resilient websites and products for the Web. Let me help you build yours.

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Workshops & Training

Over 400 designers and developers from all over the world have joined me for a live workshop – in-person or online.

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Latest Posts

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Color Safe

Empowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based onWCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.

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Grid Style Sheets 2.0

GSS reimagines CSS layout & replaces the browser’s layout engine with one that harnesses the Cassowary Constraint Solver — the same algorithm Apple uses to compute native layout.

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Flexbox Froggy

It's about time to learn CSS Flexbox. And this ingenious game lets you get your head around the relevant CSS properties in no time. Wonderful work.

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Style Guide Resources

This site lists lots of useful resources to help you learn about and create your own Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries.Contributions by @maban, @bradfrost and many, many more.

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Oil Change & Pizza

Great advice from Daniel Mall for agencies (and freelancers alike): What makes a great agency are the things they don’t do.