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Welcome to jkwebs.de

This is the website of Jakob Hilden. I just graduated with a Master of Science in Information University of Michigan where I had specialized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Social Computing. You can find out more about my academic work here.

Besides my studies I have been working as a freelance Web Developer, Web Designer and Internet Consultant for various web companies and independent projects for almost 8 years. You can find out more about my work under philosophy and references.

News

• Our TabViz project, which aims to design a useful visualization of open browser tabs, has just been awared the "Best In Class: Innovation" award among 126 submissions to the Mozilla Lab's Design Challengen 2009.
• The work on the upcoming release of the Gallery open-source project is getting into its hot phase. We just realeased our second beta version of Gallery 3 and so far it looks like it will be an awesome new version with an immensely improved user experience.
• Finally I'm getting ready for a big road trip through the USA, which will concluded my time here before going back to Germany in September.

Have fun on my website! I hope you will find the information your were looking for.

--Jakob Hilden