The Daily Report
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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…
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Pro Tip
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Shop Web Standards
GET YOUR STANDARDS ON! John Rainsford, working with your humble narrator, has crafted a sweet collection of limited edition products, designed to let you show your love and support for web standards. What are you…
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Foursquare accept friend requests: worst interface in the world
Foursquare accept friends: worst interface in the world from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.
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Big Web Show No. 59: Mike Monteiro on art & design
MULE DESIGN DIRECTOR, conceptual artist, author, and Twitter provocateur Mike Monteiro and I discuss design vs. fine art, using constraints to produce artwork, his new book, working with (not necessarily pleasing) clients, whether great comedians…
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Everything I know about interaction design, I learned from my cats.
CATS CAN’T TALK, but it turns out they are great interaction designers. I’ve been laid up with a hernia and bronchitis and I’ve let a few chores go. Such as prompt daily cleaning of the…
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Say No to SOPA!
A LIST APART strongly opposes USHR 3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly burdensome to support, and would, without hyperbole, destroy…
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Getting Started with Sass – A List Apart
CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so…