2013 Looking back on a great year.

What we did in 2013

January – March

  • We meet at the notary to set up our company, required gmbh.
  • The founding of required gmbh is done. We are now a registered company.
  • Silvan speaks at #WPKonferenz about Developing for WordPress.
  • Karin gets her Master Degree in Human Computer Interaction Design.
  • Project Launches

April – June

  • Silvan & Velthy give their first course on "Dynamic Webdesign" in Lucerne.
  • Stefan Pasch marries his beautiful fiancée Julia.
  • We gather together in Hamburg for a creative hack week.
  • For facturandum, we launch a new product page and time-tracking integration with mite.
  • First sketches for our upcoming website.
  • A short trip to Schwerin known as the Ossi-Headquarter.
  • Project Launches

Juli – September

  • Karin is working from London on a trip to visit a friend.
  • User Testing at Colab for the new ricardoShops.ch design (powered by TestingTime Users).
  • On a 3-week retreat in Berlin, enjoying tasty spinach-smoothies at our favorite café.
  • Freshjobs is one of the sponsors at the frontendconf.
  • We move our weekly remote meeting to Google Hangout.
  • Project Launches

October – December

What we do in 2014


On top of these, we already have some fresh projects in the making. In case you are interested in hiring us for your next project, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us. We are available again from April 2014.

Meet us at the next frontendconf in Zürich or have a chat with us at Smashing Conference in Oxford in March 2014.

Freshjobs is one of the sponsors at UX Lausanne 2014 in May.

Places we worked from so far

We don't have shared office space and usually work from our private offices or any other location offering a decent coffee. Therefore we are free to travel and work from everywhere.

Learn more about remote working by reading REMOTE.

Thanks to all our clients & partners

You are awesome! Thank you for a very exciting 2013. Welcome to 2014.

Sincerely, your required+ Team