The Daily Report
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Dead Pixel Society
FANS OF ICON ART and The Big Web Show, listen up. Tomorrow’s Big Web Show guest is Justin Dauer (AKA @pseudoroom) of The Dead Pixel Society. Justin was a web icon artist in the mid-1990s,…
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On Design Conferences
A GOOD CONFERENCE is a designed experience. I don’t mean a visually over-designed brandgasm. I mean an educational and emotionally considered narrative. To me, the ideal conference offers a single track, so that all attendees…
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I Remember
THERE WAS THIS GUY, sax player, used to honk all up and down the Q Train to Coney Island. Thought he was Sun Ra. Wasn’t.
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One Hug
JUST WEEKS ago, my daughter’s mother moved out of state. The kid’s been having a tough time with it, and with school, and with her upcoming tenth birthday, which won’t work out the way she…
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Online Training to Make Sites and Apps Accessible
ACCESSIBILITY IS LIKE the weather: everyone talks about it, but not enough of us do anything about it. Austin-based Knowbility is one of the few groups in the world with the commitment and expertise to…
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Original Hip Hop Art
WHY THE INTERNET was invented: this single-page, no-frills website presents a trove of original, old-school hip hop party posters mainly designed by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2, and featuring legendary rappers before they got famous.…
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Netdiver returns
PIONEERING design ‘zine Netdiver is back, baby! Founded by my friend and colleague Carole Guevin in 1998, Netdiver was one of the first web ‘zines to seriously explore and promote design and design culture on…
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The Color Purple
WHEN my daughter was little, she used to ask me my favorite color. I was a grownup, and could only supply a grownup’s answer: “I love the way light looks in late afternoon,” I might…
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I Cry Inside
MY DAUGHTER cries and begs me not to leave on my business trip. I hold her and tell her I will return soon. My grandfather died in a plane crash between New York and California.…
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Video: It’s a Great Time To Be A UX Designer by Jared Spool
In this 60-minute video caught live at An Event Apart Austin, Jared M. Spool explains why “It’s a Great Time To Be A UX Designer.”
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Big Web Show ? 117: The Real Macaw – Stop Writing Code, Start Drawing It
IN BIG WEB SHOW Episode ? 117, Tom Giannattasio, Founder/CEO of Macaw, “the superhot web design tool of the future,” joins me to discuss a paradigm shift: can we really draw semantic HTML and succinct…
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The Practice
Typekit Practice is a fine new typography resource. Congrats & thanks @nicewebtype @typekit ! http://t.co/LncTpApUku pic.twitter.com/AVntKX6Ntn — Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) April 18, 2014
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A List Apart ? 393: Inventing & Documenting Design Patterns
A LIST APART Issue ? 393 is about documenting design patterns with a style guide and creating new ones with the z-axis. Creating Style Guides by SUSAN ROBERTSON A style guide, also referred to as…
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Big Web Show ? 116: The Difference Between Ideas and Products
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 116 (“Everything Web That Matters”), I chat with Phillip Reyland and Roland Dubois, cofounders of Byte Dept., a NYC agency that designs and builds digital products for brands and agencies,…
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The Gory Details
SO MY DAD had another seizure—it’s been about six months since the last one; nobody knows what causes them or how to prevent them. It was 4:00 AM Monday morning. He fell heavily, like a…