The Daily Report
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Selling Design – an online reading list
TOMORROW, WHICH IS also my birthday, I begin teaching “Selling Design” to second-year students in the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts, New York. Liz Danzico and Steve Heller created and direct…
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The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment
THE FIRST THING I got about the web was its ability to empower the maker. The year was 1995, and I was tinkering at my first website. The medium was raw and ugly, like a…
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State of the web: of apps, devices, and breakpoints
IN The ‘trouble’ with Android, Stephanie Rieger points out the ludicrous number of Android screen sizes on a typical UK client’s website and comes to this conclusion: If … you have built your mobile site…
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Hitler reacts to SOPA
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Migrate if you like, but Touristeye is not a Gowalla partner.
RECENTLY A COMPANY CALLED Touristeye has been emailing Gowalla users, encouraging them to migrate their data to Touristeye now that the Gowalla service is closing down. The emails tell you how a Gowalla friend (who…
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The Big Web Show No. 61: Khoi Vinh of Mixel and NYTimes.com
NOW ONLINE for your pleasure! In Episode No. 61 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Khoi Vinh, co-creator of Mixel, former NYTimes.com Design Director, co-founder of NYC design studio Behavior,…
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My glamorous life: some holiday!
THIS WEEK I will finally sign my divorce papers. It’s like that old Woody Allen joke, “The food here is terrible – and such small portions.” I didn’t want to get divorced, and I’ve been…
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Mobile App Usage: the data will surprise you
AS THE NUMBER of native mobile applications keeps growing, it’s worth looking at how they get used. To that end, here’s a few stats about people downloading apps and what what they do with them…
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MSIE auto-updates: a holiday gift to web developers everywhere.
THE STATE OF THE WEB is about to get a whole lot better, as the living dead release their stranglehold on the Windows desktop and a new generation of beautifully standards-compliant IE browsers rolls out…
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Required Reading. Multi-Device Web Design: An Evolution
LUKE WROBLEWSKI: As mobile devices have continued to evolve and spread, so has the process of designing and developing Web sites and services that work across a diverse range of devices. From responsive Web design…
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Why Mobile?
FROM A LUKE Wroblewski-led mobile workshop currently in progress at An Event Apart San Francisco: There are more mobile devices than there are people in the world. 1.3 billion mobile page views a year. Facebook…
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What I Learned About the Web in 2011
AS THE YEAR draws to a close, we asked some A List Apart readers to tell us what they learned about the web in 2011. Together their responses summarize the joys and challenges of this…
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Take two minutes to stop SOPA before it passes this week
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING you can do today: help STOP SOPA once and for all. The Stop Online Piracy Act could pass this week. U.S. friends reading this, call your Representatives now to be heard…
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Live Blogging An Event Apart San Francisco
RIGHT HERE I’ll be sharing links, write-ups, and ideas from An Event Apart San Francisco – three days of design, code, and content for people who make websites. Keep watching this space! A Feed Apart…
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: An Event Apart San Francisco, Palace Hotel, Dec. 12-14
HERE I AM at the Palace on Market Street for another thrilling installment of An Event Apart. An Event Apart San Francisco features twelve great speakers and sessions. Following the two-day conference comes an intense…