The Daily Report
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Marchgasm!
I’VE BEEN BUSY this month: Updated! Writing the Book on Web Design, Jeffrey Zeldman interview, Communication Arts Insights, March 24, 2015. “This is the beauty of a design career: you have the opportunity to create…
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I’m an Entrepreneur, And You Can Too: FounderDating cofounder Jessica Alter on Big Web Show ? 129
TODAY’S BIG WEB SHOW guest is Jessica Alter (@jalter), Cofounder & Chief Connector of FounderDating, “a Linkedin for entrepreneurs.” Jessica and I discuss growing an online community while maintaining quality and avoiding spam and anti-patterns;…
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The Arc of a Design Career: Khoi Vinh on The Big Web Show ? 128
KHOI VINH IS my guest in Episode ? 128 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”). Khoi is a web and graphic designer, blogger, and former design director for The New York Times, where…
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Big Web Show ? 127: Those Who Can Teach with Jared Spool
IN EPISODE ? 127 of The Big Web Show, Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering and I discuss the goals and workings of Center Centre, a new school Jared cofounded with Dr Leslie Jensen Inman…
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Big Web Show ? 126: Dribble ‘n Flow with Dan Cederholm (@simplebits)
IN EPISODE ? 126 of The Big Web Show, author (“Sass For Web Designers”), designer, and Dribbble co-founder Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) sits down with Jeffrey Zeldman to discuss using tools and templates versus rolling your…
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Next Generation CSS Layout With Rachel Andrew
SINCE the early days of the web, designers have been trying to lay out web pages using grid systems. Likewise, almost every CSS framework attempts to implement some kind of grid system, using floats and…
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Pick Up Hicks
JON HICKS. One of twelve great reasons to attend An Event Apart Boston 2015. Zeldman.com fans, save $100 at registration using discount code AEAZELD. Jon Hicks is a Graphic Designer based in Oxfordshire, UK. He…
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The Long Web – An Event Apart Video
IN THIS 60-minute video caught live at An Event Apart Austin, Jeremy Keith bets on HTML for the long haul: The pace of change in our industry is relentless. New frameworks, processes, and technologies are…
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Big Web Show ? 125: “You’re My Favorite Client” with Mike Monteiro
Monteiro and I talk design: Designers Mike Monteiro (author, “You’re My Favorite Client”) and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss why humility is expensive, how to reassure the client at every moment that you know what you’re doing,…
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Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken
MAC USERS, if you’ve experienced occasional (but not infrequent) network dropout problems since upgrading to Yosemite, this article in Ars Technica explains why, and tells how to fix it … if you dare. I most…
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29 Again
I’M CELEBRATING my birthday with a painful stomach virus that began Thursday night and shows no signs of leaving. It feels like a jackass kicking me from the inside. I can’t eat—I tried last night,…
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Vegan Caviar Wishes
Ain’t no party like a DayQuil party.
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Unexamined Privilege is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”
UNEXAMINED PRIVILEGE is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”—a feature conceived and designed by a group to whom nothing terrible has happened yet. A brilliant upper-middle-class student at an elite…
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Designer Blindness
If your design works for 80% of the people, give me a shout. I’ll depress you posthaste.
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Broken All the Way Down: Seeking Basic Information from Southwest Airlines
I was taking my daughter to Laguardia Airport to meet her mom, who would then take the girl on to Chicago for a few days’ holiday-time visit. Laguardia is a large airport, with many terminals,…