Category: Authoring
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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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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This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.
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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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Just add water.
Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas),…
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Immersive Content and Usability
As the lines between our physical and digital surroundings continue to blur, it’s more important than ever to design usable and accessible content for our ever-expanding array of contexts. In 2021, A Book Apart and…
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Grateful X 2
Sometimes you are reminded how just how incredibly lucky you are to know and work with passionate, talented people.
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Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now
Separating structure from style and behavior was the web standards movement’s core revelation, and each generation of web designers discovers it anew. This separation is what makes our content as backward-compatible as it is forward-compatible…
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Toward a more inclusive web form
Registering for school, paying bills, updating government documents—we conduct a significant part of our daily lives through web forms. So when simply typing in your name breaks a form, well, user experience, we have a…
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Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web
Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web
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The Web is not Poor Man’s Native | in progress
TAKE A LOOK in dev tools; maybe you don’t need a couple of dozen trackers on every page. Chris Wilson on why Web vs. Native is the wrong question, and what web developers can do…
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Lawson on picture element
Those eager to bash Hixie and the WHATWG are using the new spec as if it were a cudgel; “this is how you deal with Hixie and WHATWG” says Marc Drummond. I don’t think that’s…
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Fast Company on Adobe Muse
“DESIGN GURU Jeffrey Zeldman, says while he likes Muse for its ease of creating layouts, it still doesn’t answer his plea for a better Internet. ‘Software can’t generate HTML that is search-engine friendly, accessibility-friendly, and…
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011
YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…