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  • Big Web Show ? 98: Designer Debbie Millman

    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…

  • Not a Thing in Texas

    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…

  • Big Web Show ? 97: Research For Tomorrow with Erika Hall

    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…

  • A List Apart № 383: It Ain’t Easy Being Green

    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…

  • Dispossessed

    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…

  • That’s Me All Over

    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…

  • Click It

    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.

  • Just The Two Of Us: Monteiro & Me on Big Web Show No. 96

    Just The Two Of Us: Monteiro & Me on Big Web Show No. 96

    IN EPISODE No. 96 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I chat with my friend Mike Monteiro, author of Design Is A Job, and co-founder of Mule Radio, about the joy of…

  • The Lords of Vendorbation

    The Lords of Vendorbation

    Vendorbatory product “design” decisions stem purely from contingencies and conveniences in the code framework, which itself is almost always an undocumented archipelago of spaghetti, spit, and duct tape started by one team and continued by…

  • Chicago, Chicago

    Chicago, Chicago

    AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites. Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski’s note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes…

  • Research Engine Optimization

    Research Engine Optimization

    IN ISSUE No. 381 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Connected UX by AARRON WALTER Your inbox overflows with customer emails suggesting features and improvements. Instead of benefiting, you feel overwhelmed by…

  • Vision & Flow: ALA 380

    Vision & Flow: ALA 380

    IN Issue No. 380 of A List Apart for people who make web sites: Getting to Flow by BREANDÁN KNOWLTON Projects go much better when you and your client are in a flow state. But…

  • How Tweet It Is: An Event Apart DC in 140 Chars

    How Tweet It Is: An Event Apart DC in 140 Chars

    IF YOU MISSED An Event Apart DC, here’s your chance to glean nuggets of knowledge shared by attendees at the event. Tweets about “#aeadc”

  • Deep Thoughts

    Deep Thoughts

    Flat design is destroying the woodgrain background industry. — Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) August 6, 2013

  • Reality 2.0

    Reality 2.0

    GOING TO BE SAD when all these social networks I’ve been pouring my life into get shut down by basic economics or bought by Yahoo.