The Daily Report
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Phonedrome
Did I wake the moment my phone died? Was my phone jealous of my tablet? Phonedrome: speculations on the phone-human connection.
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Web Performance Today
Front-end design/development then and now. As web design becomes more complicated, so do performance solutions. Enjoy a nostalgic look back at yesterday’s best practices, and dive into great resources for optimizing today’s complex websites and…
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A Helvetica For Readers
A Helvetica For Readers: behind the site design for Robert Slimbach’s new Acumin type family—fresh at zeldman.com.
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USA: Designed With Web Standards
Front end designer Maya Benari, a leading contributor to the newly launched U.S. Web Design Standards, takes web designer Jeffrey Zeldman behind the scenes in this new Big Web Show interview.
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Love. Listen. Learn.
We have to stop demonizing those with whom we disagree. Attacking the intelligence, moral fiber, and grip on sanity of those who hold opinions contrary to ours is as old as newsgroups. But we won’t…
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Web Animation with Val Head
How Does Your Brand Live in Motion? Designers Val Head and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss how to create an animation style guide, the genius of user queries, the web animation API, frame by frame animation, animating…
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Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web
By including ad blocking in iOS9, Apple isn’t trying to take down your site or mine—just like the drone program doesn’t deliberately target civilians and children. Apple is trying to hurt arch-rival Google while providing…
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This Machine Kills Pixels: Khoi Vinh on Design & Design Tools
Khoi Vinh (@khoi) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest this week. Khoi is a a Principle Designer at Adobe, design chair at Wildcard, and former design director at NYTimes.com. He blogs at subtraction.com. Over a cordial hour,…
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The independent content producer refuses to die!
We believe that the web is a remarkable medium for new forms of art, personal storytelling, and all manner of information and services whose rewards are not necessarily financial. The independent content scene is alive…
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@font-face and Web Performance
Unfortunately, the main issue with @font-face now is what many wanted to avoid years ago: the FOIT, or Flash of Invisible Text.
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All Websites Look The Same
When was the last time you saw a website that didn’t have a huge image fitting to the screen with some giant text overlaid on it? Why do all our websites look the same?
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Inclusion and Diversity at Slack
Inclusion and diversity: fully 41% of all people working at Slack have a woman as their manager.
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“Adaptive UI encourages us to be strategic.”
“Adaptive UI encourages us to be strategic.”—Mike Davidson on Building A More Unified Twitter for iOS.
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Happy birthday, Maurice
It’s my dad’s birthday. He is 88 today.