Building My Highlights

By Marc de Bruijn, November 19, 2014

This is a short overview of the process of building a proof-of-concept application. Requirements shifted during the development of the project which, combined with a lot of uncertainty regarding the datasources to be used, partly explains the technical exploratory process and the way the final proof-of-concept was developed. My Highlights was conceived as a mobile [...]

Developing EPUBster

By Marc de Bruijn, November 19, 2014

With EPUBster (for lack of a better name) we tried to develop a web application allowing publishers to edit and create EPUBs. We us the term ‘publisher’ very loosely in this instance, also referring to developers, designers or editors. EPUBster was partly developed for Amsterdam based publisher Valiz and designers Meeus Ontwerpt in order for [...]

Crash Test Dummy

By Marc de Bruijn, June 20, 2013

In order to test the capabilities of the various EPUB readers we created a dummy EPUB containing a couple of features often requested by designers and publishers. While EPUB 3 is a modern standard with a lot of possibilities, the utilisation of a relatively simple design and the inclusion of rich media is seriously hampered [...]

Posts By: Marc de Bruijn

Building My Highlights

Developing EPUBster

Crash Test Dummy