beyond tellerrand 24–27 Apr 2012 Cologne • Germany

Marcin Wichary

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Marcin Wichary is a designer, writer, and typographer. He worked at Medium, Google, and Code for America. Currently he’s working at Figma and typing in a book about the history of typing, on one of the many keyboards he owns. He cares a lot about storytelling, the meaning of details, and things we can learn from technology’s and design’s past.

Talk: You gotta do what you gotta do

Marcin, a user experience designer at Google, had his hand in popular interactive homepage doodles celebrating Pac-Man, Jules Verne, and Stanisław Lem, among others. What kind of things we need to worry of when we put things on a such a popular destination? Which rules cannot be broken and which ones absolutely have to? What contraptions did we put together? What things did we learn the hard way?