Mai 2020 NEWS I co-founded FIELD 🔹🔷.

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September 2017 OLD NEWS I do freelance work - Hire me for product thinking sessions, workshop facilitation and design management. You'll find my latest activity on http://michaelschieben.com.

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September 2012 OLDER NEWS I joined Christophe and Johannes as partner at precious design studio. You'll find my latest activity on http://precious-forever.com.

Below are projects I created between 2009 and 2012.


Making The Web Beautiful!

The Google Font Experience For Any Website


2010. In May 2010 Google opened its font directory. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers. The company created the Font API that makes it easy to add web fonts to any web page you own. They advertised their API with an example text saying "Making the web beautiful" written in a font called "Tangerine" (see screenshot below).

I created a bookmarklet to beautify foreign web pages! Drag the link to you bookmarkbar in the browser and click it on any webpage!

Add your beautiful screenshots to the Making the Web Beautiful flickr group


Selected Pages, beautified:


Making the Web Beautiful - Google example



Google beautified



NY Times beautified



Spiegel.de beautified

↓ Use this bookmarklet ↓
Making the Web Beautiful!