Category: architecture
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Understanding MARTI: A New Metadata Framework for AI
At its core, MARTI is a bridge. It harmonizes with existing metadata standards like the Content Authenticity Initiative, Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy, and the W3C’s PROV. It anticipates the needs of future standards, laws and practices, such as…
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What happened to the Share button in Zoom?
Zoom has always included a clickable button/badge at the top left of its primary meeting interface window. Click the badge to copy the URL of that meeting. You can then, with just one more click…
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CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users
The W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives that may be kinder and more reliable.
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“Where the people are”
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Ten Years Ago on the Web
2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platform, at the time. Pundits were claiming bad design was good for the web…
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Big Web Show ? 142: Information Architecture is Still Very Much a Thing, with Abby Covert
My guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts;…
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Give me file hierarchies, or give me chaos.
Folders über alles.
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Chicago, Chicago
AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites. Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski’s note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes…
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New on Foursquare: great architectural experiences
Great Architectural Experiences is a list I’ve begun on Foursquare. Currently there are 29 33 35 entries. The list is not limited to buildings. After all, some of New York’s greatest architectural experiences include crossing…
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Keep your site’s type right; let users work offline
IN ISSUE No. 350 of A List Apart for people who make websites: keep your web type looking right across browsers, platforms, and devices; let users do stuff on your site even when they’re offline.…
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Kiss a jet age masterpiece goodbye
WHILE ABC has conspicuously begun to celebrate the early jet age, the Port Authority has begun to tear it down. Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport — a crisp island of aesthetic tranquility by the…
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Good morning, Boston!
Aerial view of Boston’s Back Bay and Prudential area from 36th floor of the Marriott. Good morning, Boston! | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show
BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…
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We Didn’t Stop The Fire.
OUR LIBRARY IS BURNING. Copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap. Digital permanence is a tragically laughable ideal to anyone who remembers the VHS format wars or tries to view Joshua Davis’s…
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2010: The Year in Web Standards
WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…