https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/sidenotes-without-js
Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript | Koos Looijesteijn
Feb 17, 2025 - Sidenotes can make a plain text richer. Here’s how you can implement them with HTML and CSS alone.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/businesses-hire-designers-to-grow
Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work | Koos Looijesteijn
They hire designers to grow.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/match-color-of-video-with-webpage-background
Blend video with your website’s background | Koos Looijesteijn
If there's one thing I learned embedding video, it's: don't even try to produce a video that should seamlessly merge into the …
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/design-better-avoiding-cognitive-biases
Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases | Koos Looijesteijn
Jan 16, 2021 - Can you outsmart your brain? Seven biases that mess up your designs and what you can do against them.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/make-video-archive
How to make a video archive | Koos Looijesteijn
Expensive storage and big files shouldn't be a problem with good video compression.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/design-ethics-useless
Are design ethics useless? | Koos Looijesteijn
Nov 28, 2023 - If you're not redesigning design, it's not going to do much for you.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/picking-up-longboarding-as-a-grown-up-in-2019
Picking up longboarding as a grown-up | Koos Looijesteijn
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/improve-products-by-making-them-less-efficient
Can we improve products by making them less efficient? | Koos Looijesteijn
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/i-do-care
I do care | Koos Looijesteijn
Silence is not always complicity
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/what-is-color
What is color?—Color theory in design | Koos Looijesteijn
Apr 24, 2020 - Choosing colors depends often on the designer's taste.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/make-volunteer-driven-open-source-projects-successful
How to make volunteer-driven open source projects successful | Koos Looijesteijn
Free and open source projects could be much more successful for you and your users!
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/most-important-ethical-question-design
The most important question in design: who’s gonna pay me? | Koos Looijesteijn
If you’re good at deciding who you work for, it can avoid some serious worrying about other decisions.
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https://meesterinbloemen.nl/
Karin Looijesteijn, Meester in bloemen | Amsterdams bloematelier
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/
Blog | Koos Looijesteijn
Welcome to my homepage.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/organizations-are-ant-colonies
Organizations are ant colonies | Koos Looijesteijn
Every time I see leaders mess something up, I think of the ant colony.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/multilingual-website-with-jekyll-collections
Making a multilingual website with Jekyll collections | Koos Looijesteijn
A foolproof and flexible way to add translations to a Jekyll site.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog
Blog archive | Koos Looijesteijn
Koos Looijesteijn's blog archive
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/why-is-free-open-source-software-badly-designed
Why is open source software so badly designed? | Koos Looijesteijn
Jan 10, 2024 - It’s not just a matter of developers acting friendlier or designers acting less egoistically.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/user-centered-vs-user-centric-design
User-centered versus user-centric design | Koos Looijesteijn
This is bigger than modernism versus post-modernism.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/replace-doom-scrolling-with-productive-media-routines
How I replaced doom scrolling with productive media routines | Koos Looijesteijn
The best way to stop a bad habit is to replace it with a new one.
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/how-i-do-web-design
How I do web design | Koos Looijesteijn
Dec 24, 2025 - Thirty short, practical lessons
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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/why-bicycles-cannot-replace-cars
10 Reasons why bicycles can't replace cars | Koos Looijesteijn
Reasonable people have reasons for not to using their legs to pedal and using a car instead.
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