The Daily Report
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”
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Deep Thoughts
Flat design is destroying the woodgrain background industry. — Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) August 6, 2013
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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.
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Zeldman Quarterly No. 1
#ZEL01, MY FIRST CURATED gift for Quarterly subscribers, has dropped. It contains a book of classic Blue Note jazz LP record cover designs, a jazz LP record (each recipient gets a different one), a framed…
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Thursday
ME: Why’s your girlfriend’s sweater on the back of your chair? MALE OFFICE MATE 1: It’s my sweater. MALE OFFICE MATE 2: He’s Metrosexual. ME: I experimented with that in college.
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Build Your App offline first: Jake Archibald of Google Chrome on The Big Web Show
IN EPISODE No. 95 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Jake Archibald of Google Chrome about upcoming web caching standards, how the network connection is merely a layer of progressive…
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Lea Verou on Big Web Show
LEA VEROU and I discuss the creative process behind her “CSS Secrets” series and the book of the same name she is writing for O’Reilly; loving JavaScript and math; her professional path, beginning with coding…
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ALA Summer Reading
AS PUBLISHER of A List Apart for people who make websites, I’m delighted to present our second annual ALA Summer Reading Issue—a deep pool of editor’s picks from the recent archives of A List Apart,…
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Think Outside The Silo
IN TODAY’S A List Apart for people who make websites, we are pleased to present… Designing for Services Beyond the Screen by ANDY POLAINE You redesign the website for an airline, but who is designing…