The Daily Report
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Font Lover’s Pizza: The Font Bureau’s Nick Sherman on Type and the Web
TYPE NERDS, unite! Join Nick Sherman (The Font Bureau, Webtype, Fonts In Use, A List Apart) and me for a pleasant hour geeking out on responsive type, 21st century hinting, typefaces designed from scratch for…
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Big Web Show ? 102: Sass for Web Designers with Dribbble’s Dan Cederholm
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I Remember Mama
TODAY IN 2000 the lady who brought me into this life left it. Pneumonia was listed as the cause of death, but she was really killed by Alzheimer’s, a disease that, to all intents and…
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Big Web Show ? 101: Let’s Kill Some Dreams—Advertising & The Web with Jeremy Fuksa
DESIGNER, producer, and radio host Jeremy Fuksa and I discuss advertising’s view of the web, the web’s view of advertising, and new design processes for our multi-device web overlords. Enjoy. Keep Hope Alive Check all…
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Meaning and Non-Meaning
I’M AT THE MakingWeb conference in Oslo, Norway. Nearly all of the presentations here have been in English, but the one I’m listening to now is in Norwegian, a language of which I speak not…
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ALA ? 384: Unsuck Flat UI; Master Digital Project Momentum
Flat UI and Forms by JESSICA ENDERS Though some decry flat user interfaces as pure fashion, or as the obvious response to skeuomorphic trends, many designers have embraced the flat approach because the reduction in…
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Big Web Show ? 100: Dan Brown Works With Others
Author, lecturer, studio co-founder, UX wiz, and web design pioneer Dan Brown is my guest in Episode ? 100 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”). Listen in as Dan and I discuss…
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Where Ideas Come From: Foursquare’s @Naveen on The Big Web Show
IN EPISODE ? 99 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai and I discuss mobile apps and the quantified self; the genesis of bookmarking places; creating mobile UIs in…
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Big Web Show ? 98: Designer Debbie Millman
I CHAT with internet radio pioneer, design author, and brand maven Debbie Millman about broadcasting, writing, teaching, publishing, learning to be happy in your own skin, and the importance of early failure to long-term success…
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Not a Thing in Texas
6:00 AM, AUSTIN. My nine-year-old vegetarian daughter just phoned from New York to inform me that matzo ball soup is made with chicken broth. She has just learned this fact, and wanted me to know…
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Big Web Show ? 97: Research For Tomorrow with Erika Hall
IN EPISODE ? 97 of The Big Web Show?, Erika Hall? (Just Enough Research, Mule Design Studio?) and I chat about why funding startups nobody needs is killing innovation; how designers can use research to…
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A List Apart № 383: It Ain’t Easy Being Green
A LIST APART ? 383 tackles our impact on the biosphere: Sustainable Web Design by JAMES CHRISTIE Do you know your website’s carbon footprint? Or how to lower it? Emissions standards have been set for…
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Dispossessed
@kirilnyc @naveen Soho Apple store circa 11:30pm pic.twitter.com/Q0PAKflG9A — Jordan Elpern-Waxman (@jelpernw) September 20, 2013 “HOMELESS FOLK sleeping in front of the SoHo Apple Store. What a perfect commentary on our society,” I thought. Then…
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That’s Me All Over
BY SOME FLUKE I appear in two internet radio broadcasts this week: The Gently Mad Podcast: Jeffrey Zeldman “Jeffrey Zeldman is an author, designer and founder of Happy Cog. He talked with Adam about the…
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Click It
HERE’S A WEBSITE one of my students designed when she was in Seventh Grade. (She’s 27 now.) Notice that Angelfire still sells ads on it. Wonder how well they perform.