The Daily Report
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Has Design Become Too Hard? – transcription
What follows is a transcription of Has Design Become Too Hard?, which I wrote for Communication Arts in June 2016. I transcribe it here against the day CA takes down its content. WE DESIGNERS love…
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Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead
I’M pretty much done with Instagram. I never loved it, but it’s where most of my friends looked for my photos, so I made peace with it as a platform—and continued to use poor, old,…
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Has Design Become Too Hard? | Jeffrey Zeldman in Communication Arts
Digital design is not what it used to be, we say. The fun has gone out of it. An endless deluge of frameworks and technologies has leached the creativity out of what we make and…
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Position Wanted: Front-End Director
WE have creative directors and design directors, but we don’t seem to have any front-end directors. And maybe we should. For years at big companies, people in different silos have written CSS with no information…
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90 Minutes With Amtrak.com
I’m traveling by train next week. This morning, Amtrak .com wouldn’t let me log into my account with my password, which I have never changed, and which Amtrak.com now says is “incorrect.” When I eventually…
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Breakfast Links
The finest linkage this week for web and interaction designers and developers.
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Abandon Hope!
THE FILTHIEST men’s room in New York is on the 8th floor of 291 Broadway. You would think the men’s room at Penn Station or the bus terminal would beat any other for filth and…
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Shopify Partners Program wants you—and so do I!
Apply now to join the next round of Shopify Partner Studio!
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Getting to the heart of users’ deepest needs
We say we’re crafting personas to fit the needs of “real” people—yet we easily revert to abstractions when raw emotions enter the picture. Eric A. Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher are working to change that. In…
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Pinterest giveth, and Pinterest taketh away
AS MY design career has taken on more and more strategic and managerial freight, I’ve done less and less hands-on design. This year, I decided to change that. As part of my reimmersion, I found…
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Grid Layout & Flexbox City
CSS GRID LAYOUT is nearly finalized. Which means it’s time for designers and front-end developers to set the flags enabling their browsers to support the new specification, put CSS Flexbox through its paces, and see…
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Helvetica With Curves—And Other Updated Classics
NOT UNLIKE what Mattel has done with Barbie, the typographic geniuses at The Font Bureau are working on a humanist geometric sans-serif that could almost be thought of as Helvetica with curves. Forma is the…
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Foreword to HTML5 for Web Designers, 2nd Edition
Welcome to the second edition of HTML5 for Web Designers, the book that launched a thousand sites—or apps, if you prefer. It is also the book whose first edition launched our little craft publishing house.…
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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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Sharing is Caring: the Shopify Partner Studio Program
As good as coworking spaces are, designers and developers do even better in a shared studio where the same talented folks come in day after day, sitting at the same desks every day. That’s why…