The Daily Report
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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.
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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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Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity
For millions of people with vertigo and inner ear problems, large-scale web animations can trigger nausea, migraines, and dizziness. To make websites accessible for everyone, we don’t need to eliminate animation; we need to apply…
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Front-end devs, An Event Apart is hiring.
AEA is looking for a great part-time front-end dev. Progressive enhancement is your bread; mobile-first responsive design is your butter. Sweating web performance details is your idea of Saturday night; arguing the semantics of blockquote,…
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You’re welcome: cutting the mustard then and now.
EVERY TIME I hear a brilliant young web developer cite the BBC’s forward-thinking practice of “cutting the mustard,” by which they mean testing a receiving web device for certain capabilities before serving content, I remember…
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“You’re Now Free to Complain About the Wi-Fi”
LOUIS C.K.’s 2008 viral rant on Conan O’Brien be damned. Seven years later, in-flight Wi-Fi is still maddeningly slow, expensive, and unreliable. Bloomberg: Why Gogo’s Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
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Reframing Design
Issue ? 426 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, reframes the design process. Adopting modular design; testing and feedback in design.
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On Web Performance
Lara Hogan on Web Performance. One of twelve essential sessions.
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An Event Apart DC Resources
WHETHER you missed the DC show that ended 20 minutes ago, or attended and already want to relive the memories, this chunk’s for you: Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Washington DC 2015.…