The Daily Report
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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…
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Responsive and Mobile Now
A FEW GOOD LINKS from a day-long workshop by Luke Wroblewski: New! Off Canvas Multi-Device Layouts by Luke Wroblewski and Jason Weaver The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! by Lyza Gardner Responsive IMGs…
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Interacting Responsively (and Responsibly!)
AT AN EVENT APART Boston, “Scott Jehl discussed ways we can improve web performance by qualifying capabilities and being smart about how assets are loaded in browsers [and] shared a … new tools he helped…
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Divorce never sleeps
SO THE EX just moved to Manhattan’s most iconic private housing community. It is a large residential complex of oversized, renovated apartments set in an 80-acre private park. The sprawling collection of red brick buildings…
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See me in New York today, in Boston next week
I AM EXCITED to participate this morning in Reasons To Be Creative, NYC, where I’ll give a talk on “The End of Web Design;” and at An Event Apart Boston starting Monday, where I’ll make…
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Live today at 3PM Eastern: Readability naked and trembling on Big Web Show
LIVE TODAY AT 3:00 PM (technology willing), tune in to 5by5 live as I interview Rich Ziade, founder, hero, and villain behind the Readability reading platform, whose latest controversial move, announced earlier today, is to…
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Readability ends reader fee program, gives uncollected funds to accessibility and writing charities
TODAY MY FRIENDS at Arc 90 announced that, as of June 30, 2012, Readability will no longer accept reader fees. Further, they will donate any uncollected funds to charities that support reading and writing. They’ll…