The Daily Report
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Don’t design on spec
Happy Cog receives its share of RFPs, and sometimes these requests stipulate that our proposal include design work. Even if the project looks promising, we just say no.
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Staying creative
Everyone is creative. But some stay that way longer. How can you designers, writers, and the like, stay motivated and productive? (Plus: When the client says, “Make it like eBay,” what exactly does that mean?)
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A Sale of Two Cities
Join an amazing line-up of talented designers, developers, and thinkers for An Event Apart San Francisco — the final Event Apart show of 2007.
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The King of Web Standards
A new article in Business Week might help designers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.
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No end in sight
The story of the American occupation of Iraq, NO END IN SIGHT shows how a military victory in 2003 descended into a seemingly endless nightmare of war.
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InterNetwork
Social Network Portability means never having to re-invite your friends.
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Words, words, words
Writing has always been the beating heart of online user experience. It is also the part that designers and developers are least likely to study, discuss, or consider. The exceptions to this rule are almost…
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For web developers and iPhone users
Tools for web developers. Tricks for iPhone and iPod users.
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Event Apart Savings End Friday
Earlybird savings on An Event Apart Chicago end this Friday.
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What Apple copied from Microsoft
Apple has learned the marketing psychology lesson that Microsoft got first. For many consumers, convenience is of greater value than choice. A platform built of parts that work together seamlessly beats a self-curated collection of…
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Better Know a Speaker: Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith, one of Brighton’s loudest web developers and a featured speaker at An Event Apart Chicago, holds forth on microformats, lolcats, and applying best practices learned from CSS to writing good JavaScript.
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Bang!
Had I known that there was an explosion in midtown Manhattan and that my wife and daughter were out in the chaos, I would have been far more anxious during my train ride home from…
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Link ‘n Park
A lifetime’s worth of comic book covers, deep thoughts on ubiquitous digitization, Spool on lessons learned when new features tank, and much more.
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That Busted GIF Feeling
A pesky bug in the iLike sidebar eludes the happy fix.
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ALA 241: better UI, scriptless trick ponies, and the deathly hallows
Unlearn a web interface design convention that causes users grief, and learn how to create a scrolling, fixed/liquid hybrid layout without using JavaScript (not that there’s anything wrong with it).