Tobias van Schneider

Hi, I'm Tobias, a German designer living in New York. I'm the author of this blog, nice to meet you!

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14 Nov 2016 • 9 min read

Do These 4 Things to Stay Safe Online

This is probably an unusual article for me to write, but in the recent light of political changes and many other reasons I feel inclined to write about this topic.

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12 Nov 2016 • 4 min read

Love your haters

I’ve always struggled with haters. I grew up trying to be friends with everyone, trying to appeal to everyone with who I am and the work I do. The older I get, the more I understood that these things are impossible. There will be always someone who is against

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11 Nov 2016 • 4 min read

Trading Design for Something Else Than Money?

They called it For Design [http://www.fordesign.io], and Semplice [http://semplicelabs.com] proudly sponsored their trip to make sure they have the tools they need. Now they’re back, so we reached out to see how things went and see what’s up next for this ambitious design

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7 Nov 2016 • 2 min read

Staying Busy & the Post VR Sadness

What a crazy week, once again. I have a lot of things to share with you which hopefully help you get a good start into a fresh new week. Besides that, lots of new little design optimizations happened on my blog with the hope to improve your reading experience even

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5 Nov 2016 • 5 min read

The Post Virtual Reality Sadness

I haven't read much about this topic yet, and honestly I'm still trying to understand it myself. In the last few months I spent more time in Virtual Reality. Not only developing for it, but also playing games, experiencing everything I can that is out there

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2 Nov 2016 • 5 min read

8 most used tools & apps essential to my work

Below you can find a list of my top 8 essential apps that you might have not heard about. I'm focusing on "lesser" known apps on purpose as there is no need to tell you that I use Spotify, Dropbox, Slack etc. (we all probably do)

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2 Nov 2016 • 2 min read

Best Semplice portfolios of October 2016

As you might know, we launched Semplice [http://www.semplicelabs.com] in 2014 to build the perfect portfolio tool we always dreamed off. Since then many great designers started using Semplice and I'm always blown away to see what other designers create.It's inspiring to see

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31 Oct 2016 • 6 min read

The dilemma of form follows function

It’s an extreme statement, but Sagmeister, co-founder of the renowned design firm Sagmeister & Walsh, feels strongly about our obsession with function and disregard of beauty in design. (The following conversation is part of a one hour podcast interview on the NTMY show. You can listen to the

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27 Oct 2016 • 1 min read

New Mixtape for Designers & Makers

Hello friends! As some of you might know, I love creating playlists & mix tapes on the side and share them with you. In the last year, I shared eleven individual playlists with you, ranging from 10 to hundreds of songs. What I love about this is that I can

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26 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

The power of saying “I don’t know”

It feels good to say that. I used to speak at a lot of conferences, and at most of them there would be a Q&A session at the end. The questions were usually not a problem, but here and there I would get a question I just didn’t know the answer to, at least not at the time. I always struggled with