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My Anti Social Quotes
- Social friendships
  An unfriend is the person who knows all about you, but doesn’t like you.
- Social sandwich
  Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator.
- Social lay off
  My boss just freelanced me.
- Cogito ergo sum
  21st century translation: I tweet, therefore I (sp)am.
- What’s the Catch?
  People will only help you to make it better for themselves.
- Follow me!
  Social media: the narcissist of communication
- Perfectionism
  The Internet ain’t perfect and it shouldn’t be.
- Future village
  In the newest installment of our world we only need mindless entertainment and impersonal drama to survive.
- To be or not to be
  The Internet is a poetic drama and social media its soliloquy.
- Nooobody
  Twitter is a one way conversation system. We all shout in the void. Nobody is really listening.
- Free for us
  Sharing something doesn’t always mean that it has to be for free.
- Are you sure?
  Any social media entrepreneur should be able to answer the question: “So what exactly do you do?”, with a solid “I’m not really sure”.
- Seriously the end
  Today is the beginning of the end of using the word “social” for everything participatory. Seriously. Let it go.
- Break the internet
  Shortening services will eventually break the internet. They add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. (Actually by Joshua Schachter)
- Doing social
  Doing social means time spent not working. Don’t fool yourself in believing you are working.
- Users connect
  Users need to connect with your ideas. not you with theirs.
- Why work?
  I’m just not working today, maybe tomorrow.
- Thanks for sharing
  I find it very very creepy that the internet is now all about sharing.
- Small vs Great
  What is great user experience? The opposite of small user experience.
- To die for
  The internet already died many deaths.

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Ford Netherlands, A1 Occasions (used cars)

Ford is a great client to work for. Especially because I was the creative lead on several Ford projects in 2009/2010 and therefore responsible for all the creative concepts and the visual designs. Ford A1 Occasions (used cars) was the first major Ford redesign I started to work on.

Ford A1 looked old and was not appropriate anymore to use. The design looked outdated and the usability looked like it came from the stone age. My job was to fix this.