The Daily Report
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Designing With Words
Reading good writing about design, by someone who actually works as a designer, is a rare pleasure. What are you waiting for?
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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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A List Apart Summer Reading
SUMMER is halfway over. Have you hid out for a day of reading yet? Grab a shady spot and a picnic blanket (or just park it in front of the nearest AC unit), turn off…
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Co-Design, Not Redesign, by Kevin M. Hoffman – An Event Apart Video
MOVE from the nightmare of design by committee to the joys of design collaboration. In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition, Kevin M. Hoffman explains how service design thinking,…
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A Beautiful Life
LIZZIE VELASQUEZ, age 25, weighs 64 pounds. Born with a rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, she was not expected to survive. Her parents took her home, raised her normally, and, when she…
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Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people: those who hold the door open for others, and those who walk through without thanking me.
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The Conversion Issue
A List Apart ? 424: Convert visitors to customers, and stakeholders to passionate believers.
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This Week In The Death of Publishing & The Web
FAST COMPANY writes: Apple, like Facebook, has entered into a standoff with the publishing industry and the open, if for-profit, web. And it’s being done under the aegis of design: choose a better reading experience…
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Give me file hierarchies, or give me chaos.
Folders über alles.
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The Nation, America’s oldest weekly news magazine, launches responsive, large-type redesign.
ON ITS 150th anniversary, The Nation (“a magazine of ideas and values”) relaunches its website, created in partnership with Blue State Digital and Diaspark. As one would expect of an editorially focused web entity in…
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A List Apart ? 423: container queries, responsive content
WHETHER the topic is responsive CSS or content that responds to the right user at the right time, Issue ? 423 of A List Apart is all about finding the path forward: Container Queries: Once…
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Big Web Show ? 132: Modern Layouts with Jen Simmons
THE BIG WEB SHOW is back from its break. My guest this week is Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) of The Web Ahead. We discuss moving beyond cookie-cutter layouts on the web; the ins and outs of…
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Usability Testing
Usability testing doesn’t reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking.
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From NYPL to DC Comics: the lettering of Ira Schnapp
HE DESIGNED the lettering on The New York Public Library and the James Farley Post Office (“neither snow nor rain…”), created titles for silent movies, movie posters, and pulp magazines in the 1920s, and started…
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Daybreak in Myanmar: Photos by Geoffrey Hiller
Myanmar in Southeast Asia is one of the least known places in the world, due to the military dictatorship that has isolated the country for the past sixty years. Now that the government is making…