Peet Sneekes

Okay, if you want to apply for a job at EU focussed organisations like Interpoll, it’s wise to have a resume document that fits their robot parser AND IT’S A DOOZY! Because most resumes are unfit and will leave you hand-inputting all the data. So this is what I did. I asked AI to solve…

Europe is finally waking up to a dangerous reality: even inside its own borders, trillions of euros still move through foreign-controlled payment empires. For the European Union, this is about far more than payments. Heavy dependence on large foreign, mainly American, financial companies such as Visa and Mastercard is increasingly seen as a direct threat…

AI may be the most powerful accelerator of creativity since the 3D printer. In the 11th episode of It’s Just A Model, cohost Ron and I arrived at a new way of thinking about what AI really makes possible: for all intents and purposes, we can now think things into existence; we can manifest things…

Germany has decided: Microsoft document formats have no place in government. Deadline: 2027–2028. The Microsoft formats are simply not compatible with an open and transparent public sector. However, this is about more than file formats. It’s about control, resilience, and sovereignty in public digital infrastructure. After various attempts, Germany will finally begin moving away from…

I wanted to share this prototype of this beautiful chair with you. It’s a chair I designed a long time ago with some great colleagues. We wanted to bring people together purposefully, yet casually. It looks a bit like a tête-à-tête, or conversation chair, and it’s a lovely way to be together without having to…

(Innovation) strategies are mostly written as outcome based, rather than effect, and direction. This is rather restrictive. That’s why I write them to improve the change to make impact, learn iteratively: Also: strategies for specific topics should not be ‘yes’, or ‘no’, but with HOW and WHY. Strategy is Yoda vs. Sinek, or more exact:…

Communicating effectively as a designer is not magic. It is however an important craft to convince people, sell your work and collaborate effectively. I help UX designers and other professionals to hone their capabilities to use storytelling in their day to day work. (Smoking jacket not included) My trainings vary to fit your needs and…

Canva has made their freshly acquired creative suite Affinity free forever! This bold move baffles everybody in the creative industry. Most creatives are in disbelieve: What do you mean FREE, how? Others draw parallels to Blackmagic Design’s business model around their video editing suite Resolve. Resolve is their ‘loss leader’ product to win over professionals…

The true powers of a digital government to me are that it can learn fast, has access to the means to do so and its distance to your run of the mill people COULD be as close as a literal click. Unfortunately most governments are not using their super powers. In this article we’ll touch…