The Daily Report
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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.
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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.