Martin Gude

Thoughts on digital products, design, technology and the occasional rabbit hole.

25/09/2026 · 9 min read

Years ago, I visited Dessau with my parents. Walking into one of the Masters’ Houses, I said: “This looks like…

21/09/2026 · 3 min read

Apparently, Germany has a fibre problem. Fibre passes 28.7 million homes and businesses, but only 27.5% have actually activated an…

18/09/2026 · 8 min read

I recently rebuilt onygo, and one thing about the process matters because of what it did not involve: I never…

16/09/2026 · 2 min read

A year ago, if I had asked myself, “How do I get 20 LinkedIn posts into WordPress?”, the answer would…

14/09/2026 · 3 min read

For quite a while, most of my writing happened on LinkedIn. onygo.org was still there, but increasingly quiet. Not because…

07/09/2026 · 2 min read

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting deeper into accessibility. WCAG, BFSG, contrast methods, semantic HTML, the differences between…

28/07/2026 · 2 min read

The Tour de France is over again. Three weeks are simply too short. And this was one of the best…

18/07/2026 · 2 min read

I had to turn 47 before I stopped arguing against calling myself a designer. I used to simply say that…

27/05/2026 · 1 min read

One thing I keep noticing in organisations: a surprising amount of internal communication is optimised for the sender, not for…