The Daily Report
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Best chart ever
xkcd: University Website.
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10K Apart – inspire the web!
Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the…
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Design Apps for Fun and Profit
Update! Episode 14 is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big…
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Minneapolis Remembered
The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…
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The puzzle of Japanese web design
With respect to clarity, simplicity, and boldness of line, the Japanese have been a thousand years ahead of us in fine art and graphic design. Our best painters learned minimalism, cartooning, and much else from…
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UI Design Framework for Web Designers
Vincent (no last name given) has designed a beautiful, extremely useful, feature-rich interface design framework for web designers who create their initial design mock-ups in Adobe Illustrator. And it’s free for personal or commercial use…
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Thursday Links
HTML5 audio and video WordPress plugin lets you embed media for native playback in supported browsers; content degrades gracefully in unsupported browsers. 10 Tips for Designing Mobile Websites. Great stuff. The downside of free fonts.…
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HTML5 and CSS3 virtual classes
IF YOU’RE BONING UP on HTML5 and CSS3, you’ll want to consider two remarkable learning experiences taking place live on the web this summer: Learn HTML5 with John Allsopp Here is a great educational opportunity…
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Episode 13: Voices That Matter
Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but…
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HTML5 For Web Designers Sells Out
The first printing of Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out. For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it’s done pretty well: The book sold 1,000 copies during…
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Type@Cooper
Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, will offer a Certificate Program in Typeface Design. More information about this remarkable program is available at…
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iPad Mellotron
In Heaven, if I should get there, I will play the Mellotron. Meanwhile, I play the Mellotronics M3000 HD, a $12 Mellotron for iPad (and soon for iPhone and iPod touch as well) by Synthtopia.…
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Episode 12: Web Conferences
Thursday 15 July 2010 at 1:00 PM ET, Dan Benjamin and I will try to find out what makes web design conferences tick by interviewing the founders of two of the best. During the live…
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Happy Cog redesigns Zappos.com
Free overnight shipping; a liberal return policy; friendly service: it’s no secret that Zappos.com positions the customer as the cornerstone of their brand promise. Yet despite their success, Zappos.com was a website with a problem:…
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Nicole Sullivan on CSS
Update! Episode 11 featuring Nicole Sullivan on CSS optimization is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. If writing good CSS is tough, fixing someone else’s (or multiple someones’) bad CSS is…