The Daily Report
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To Leiden, To Leiden
THEY’RE SLEEPING in New York. They’re sleeping all over the world. Even here in Leiden, The Netherlands, they’re still mumbling and drooling in their beds. But not me. I’m awake and packing for my return…
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Design Problem
Golden Tulip hotel, Leiden Centre, Schipholweb 3, The Netherlands Related: To Leiden, To Leiden
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Creative Commons turns 10
HARD TO BELIEVE, but it was ten years ago that I first heard Lawrence Lessig give a talk at SXSWi about an idea he had to save content from death by copyright law. At the…
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Design is Copy is Design
ART AND COPY have been joined at the hip since Bill Bernbach launched the creative revolution in the 1960s. But on the web, not so much. It’s great that some of the brightest minds in…
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ALA No. 366: better design through translation; better contracts through design
IN ISSUE No. 366 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Designing Contracts for the XXI Century by VERONICA PICCIAFUOCO What’s the ugliest part of client/designer relations? Why, the contract, of course. Redesign…
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Chairman’s Message on Sixth International Blue Beanie Day
If the print aesthetic had won—if the technologies supporting that aesthetic, slice-and-dice table layouts and Flash, had continued to reign supreme—our web use would almost certainly still be limited to the desktop, and web content…
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Big Web Show 78: Bloomstein on content strategy
IN EPISODE No. 78 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Margot Bloomstein, author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement (Morgan Kaufmann, 2012), about her…
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Big Web Show 77: @sazzy
IN EPISODE No. 77 of The Big Web Show, I interview returning guest Sarah Parmenter about designing an app for the homeless; the challenges of multi-device design; teaching HTML and CSS to young people; designing…
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In Defense of Descendant Selectors and ID Elements
Except when I occasionally update Designing With Web Standards, I quit writing hands-on, nuts-and-bolts stuff about CSS and HTML years ago. Publishing abhors a vacuum: other designers and developers took my place. For the most…
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Notes and Images from An Event Apart San Francisco
THE SEVENTH and final An Event Apart show of the year 2012—three days of forward thinking and inspiring insights on multi-device design, content strategy for mobile, the next CSS, and more—is now winding down at…
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For Your Listening Pleasure
THE BIG WEB SHOW is back, baby! In spite of hurricanes, blackouts, and the vagaries of international travel, my 5by5 audio podcast about “everything web that matters” has returned to weekly broadcasting. Here are the…
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Content Strategy for Mobile three ways from Sunday
IT’S A Karen McGrane world! Today, as A Book Apart unveils Karen McGrane’s amazing new Content Strategy for Mobile, the entirety of A List Apart Issue No. 364 is dedicated to Karen and her vision…
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Two New Yorks
I MOVED to Manhattan during the crack epidemic of 1988. The heroin epidemic of the early 1970s produced CBGB, Studio 54, punk rock and hip hop. The crack epidemic produced crack addicts. If we complained…
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Après le déluge
TODAY MY DAUGHTER and I brushed our teeth with real, running water. It was heaven. Hurricane Sandy killed people and destroyed homes in New York and New Jersey. As a sideline, it left everyone in…
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My Brother is a Monster
MY MOTHER played piano and cello. My father draws, paints, and sculpts; plays trumpet and guitar; and led an advanced R&D lab in the 1970s, developing robotics and rocket parts. You know what I do,…