The Daily Report
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Leo Laporte interviews JZ
IN EPISODE 63 of Triangulation, Leo Laporte, a gracious and knowledgeable podcaster/broadcaster straight outta Petaluma, CA, interviews Your Humble Narrator about web standards history, responsive web design, content first, the state of standards in a…
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Product Management for the Web; Beyond Usability Testing
IN ISSUE NO. 357 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Beyond Usability Testing by DEVAN GOLDSTEIN To be sure we’re designing the right experience for the right audience, there’s no substitute for…
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Saul Bass pitches AT&T
CULTURAL HISTORY GEM: Saul Bass’s Original Pitch for the Bell Systems Logo Redesign, 1969. Article and curation via brainpickings.org. Hat tip: Tim Murtaugh.
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New on Foursquare: great architectural experiences
Great Architectural Experiences is a list I’ve begun on Foursquare. Currently there are 29 33 35 entries. The list is not limited to buildings. After all, some of New York’s greatest architectural experiences include crossing…
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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content
THIS MORNING Contents Magazine launched the beginning of something both good and important: a set of guidelines that could lead to a safer world for user-created content. Contents believes (and I agree) that products and…
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HTML Marches On
IN A LETTER dated July 19, 2012, WHATWG leader and HTML living standard editor (formerly HTML5 editor) Ian Hickson clarifies the relationship between activity on the WHATWG HTML living standard and activity on the W3C…
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A List Apart news
Presenting Sara Wachter Boettcher, ALA’s new editor-in-chief. WITH THE RELEASE on July 10, 2012 of the A List Apart Summer Reading Issue (a collection of favorite articles from 355 issues of the magazine), ALA’s editor-in-chief…
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My mind and welcome to it
IN MY DREAM I was designing sublime new publishing and social platforms, incandescent with features no one had ever thought of, but everybody wanted. One of my platforms generated pages that were like a strangely…
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Tweak This!
99designs, the Australian company that has made a fortune soliciting spec work (“crowd sourced graphic design”) from naive designers, and selling $99 logo customizations to small businesses, has just invested $460,000 in a new service:…
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Come out and see me.
IF YOU MISSED An Event Apart Austin, you can still see me speak about web and interaction design and the future of web content at one of these fine events near you: An Event Apart…
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An Event Apart Austin 2012
FOLLOW THE ACTION at An Event Apart Austin – three days of design, code, and content for people who make websites, now taking place in Austin, TX. A Feed Apart Just the tweets. Content First…
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Mobile to the Future
Notes on Luke Wroblewski’s “Mobile To The Future” presentation today at An Event Apart Austin: First there was print, then recordings, then cinema, radio, TV, and the internet. Mobile is the seventh and latest form…
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A July Fourth Message
HAPPY ORDINARY DAY to my friends in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil,…
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Responsive Typography
“NOT EVERYTHING always works in your favor when you design for the screen. Interaction design is engineering: it’s not about finding the perfect design, it’s finding the best compromise.” Responsive Typography: The Basics | Information…
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Facebook goes native
“IF I WERE advising them on these decisions, I would have had them look at what people actually want from Facebook — fast access to their friends’ photos and posts — and … helped them…