The Daily Report
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Material Design: Why the Floating Action Button is bad UX design
I HIGHLIGHTED so many passages in this brief, well-focused design argument, it’s almost embarrassing. Read it (it takes about three minutes), and you’ll wear out your virtual highlighter, too: Material Design is a design language introduced…
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A List Apart ? 421 Gets Personal
THERE’S GREAT reading for people who make websites in Issue No. 421 of A List Apart: Resetting Agency Culture by Justin Dauer Forget Air Hockey, Zen Gardens, and sleep pods: a true “dream” company invests…
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The Web is not Poor Man’s Native | in progress
TAKE A LOOK in dev tools; maybe you don’t need a couple of dozen trackers on every page. Chris Wilson on why Web vs. Native is the wrong question, and what web developers can do…
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My website is 20 years old today.
MY WEBSITE is 20 years old today. I’m dictating these remarks into a tiny handheld device, not to prove a point, but because, with gorgeously ironic timing, my wired internet connection has gone out. It’s…
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Screen Time: An Event Apart Video by Luke Wroblewski
FULL-LENGTH FRIDAY is here again! Enjoy another great 60-minute presentation ? An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites: In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition,…
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20 Years Ago Today: Bill Gates Wakes Up And Smells The Internet.
TODAY marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Gates’s famous letter about the web, and my first website, batmanforever.com, created with Steve McCarron and Alec Pollak for Donald Buckley of Warner Bros and optimized for Netscape…
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A byte saved is a follower earned: Web Performance Then And Now
As one group of modern web makers embraces mobile-first design and performance budgets, while another (the majority) worships at the altar of bigger, fatter, and slower, the 5K contest reminds us that a byte saved…
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A List Apart ? 420: Add Friction to Interactions, Customize With Care
IN ISSUE ? 420 of A List Apart: Meta-Moments: Thoughtfulness by Design by ANDREW GRIMES Does the internet ever stop you in your tracks? Does it sometimes make you pause and think about what you’re…
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A List Apart ? 419: Narratives & Conversations
IN ISSUE ? 419 of A List Apart: Do Androids Dream in Free Verse by JOSCELIN COOPER From ATMs to Siri to the button text in an application user interface, we “talk” to our tech—and…
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“Creative” is not a dirty word
THERE’S a meme promulgated by my dear friend Monteiro that they call you creative to take your power away. Rubbish. Don’t get me wrong. I agree with most of what Mike Monteiro has to say about design, which is…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?
Why are independent content creators afraid of Medium.com?
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Eight Days in April
I’ve been busy this week, writing for Fournova and Medium, and appearing on Unfinished Business with Andrew Clarke and Dan Mall.
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LISP – Fresh on Medium
I’d like to share a joke I wrote in my sleep this morning.
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Responsive Web Design’s Debut (with video)
IT WAS FIVE years ago today, Ethan Marcotte taught the web to play…nicely with all kinds of devices in all kinds of contexts. And he did it live on stage at An Event Apart Seattle…
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Progressive Enhancement FTW with Aaron Gustafson
IN EPISODE ? 130 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), I interview long-time web standards evangelist Aaron Gustafson, author of Adaptive Web Design, on web design then and now; why Flipboard’s 60fps…