The Daily Report
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Dog Day Morning
THE DOGS leave today. While my ex has been away this month, I’ve watched her two small dogs. And so have my two cats—especially the black alpha. Add an active eight year old girl to…
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Bootstrap creator Mark Otto: Big Web Show 93
MARK OTTO, creator of Bootstrap, is my guest on Episode No. 93 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Currently designing things at GitHub and previously at Twitter and ZURB, Mark may be…
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Response to an anonymous note left on my apartment door, complaining of noise.
Dear Neighbors: While my ex-wife is in treatment for a serious illness, I am watching her two small young dogs. They get along well with my two cats and soothe my young daughter during her…
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Coastermatic’s Tash Wong and Tom Harman on The Big Web Show Episode No. 92
AMERICAN DESIGNER Tash Wong and British designer Tom Harman are the co-founders of Coastermatic and my guests in Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Tash and Tom recently resided…
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10 Commandments of Web Design (Notes by Luke Wroblewski on a Talk by Yours Truly)
“ITERATION isn’t just for visual design. It also helps you uncover insights. A List Apart found people are often commenting and re-tweeting articles before they read them. They learned this by iterating on where the…
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Don’t Cry For Me, San Diego
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Ryan and Tina Essmaker of The Great Discontent
RYAN AND TINA Essmaker are my guests for Episode No. 91 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Ryan is a designer and the co-founder of The Great Discontent. By day he works…
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Adobe Love
I CAME to AdobeMAX in Los Angeles to give a talk to a room full of designers. Before arriving, I thought of Adobe as a historically important 20th century company that was slowly leaking relevance—a…
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The Big Web Show No. 90: Paul Ford on emulators, archives, and the web
THE AMAZING PAUL FORD is my guest in Episode No. 90 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). In a fast-moving hour, we discuss computer system emulators on the web, designing web archives,…
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McGrane: Kill Your CMS
THE ERA of “desktop publishing” is over. Same goes for the era where we privilege the desktop web interface above all others. The tools we create to manage our content are vestiges of the desktop…
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60 Minutes of Luke
IT’S ANOTHER Full-length Friday! In this 60-minute video caught live at AEA Boston, Luke Wroblewski (Mobile First) explores multi-device design from the top down (desktop to mobile) and bottom up (using mobile to expand what’s…
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Happy Cog: Building Hand-Crafted Websites
OUR FRIENDS at Typecast shot a video of some of Happy Cog’s designers discussing readability in design and the importance of great type tools to our process. Happy Cog: building hand-crafted websites from Typecast on…
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Become a Web Developer: Avi Flombaum of The Flatiron School on Big Web Show 89
AVI FLOMBAUM, dean of The Flatiron School, is my guest in Big Web Show Episode No. 89. A 28-year-old Rubyist, Skillsharer, storyteller and entrepreneur, Avi founded Designer Pages and NYC on Rails before creating The…
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Big Web Show: Greg Storey
GREG STOREY of Happy Cog is my guest in Episode No. 88 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). We discuss the Austin tech and design scene; real and virtual office models; Greg’s…
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ALA 373: Hack Your Maps, Grow Your Design Business
WE INTRODUCE new web design skills and share design business growth strategies in Issue No. 373 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Hack Your Maps by YOUNG HAHN Ever taken apart a…