the Daily Report

  • Come up and see me

    Come up and see me

    So it turns out I’ll be speaking about web design this Saturday at the sold-out AIGA Gain Conference. Yes, that conference. [tags]AIGA, GAIN, events, speaking, design, business, conference[/tags]

  • Regarding the dishwasher

    Regarding the dishwasher

    It is as if everything is broken, and everyone knows it, and we perpetually postpone the reckoning.

  • ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home

    ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home

    Progressive enhancement with CSS. Working from home: readers respond.

  • Housing Works launch

    Housing Works launch

    Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.

  • Climate Matters

    Climate Matters

    During the last couple of months, dozens of Vimeo members created videos to inspire the next American president to take action on climate change. Here are the 16 finalists; winners will be announced Tuesday.

  • A List Apart No. 269: understanding progressive enhancement; 10 years of ALA

    A List Apart No. 269: understanding progressive enhancement; 10 years of ALA

    In Issue No. 269, master the basics of progressive enhancement and look back in orange at the first ten years of A List Apart.

  • An Event Apart Chicago sells out

    An Event Apart Chicago sells out

    An Event Apart Chicago, the final AEA event of 2008, has sold out.

  • ALA 268: rethinking standards

    ALA 268: rethinking standards

    Fine-tuning the mechanics of progressive enhancement, and rethinking the assumptions of standards-based design.

  • A List Apart is changing

    A List Apart is changing

    A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.

  • A modest proposal

    A modest proposal

    It is illegal to make false claims in a TV or radio commercial unless you are running for political office.

  • Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?

    Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?

    For all the brand directors, creative directors, Jungian analysts, and print designers, one rather significant specimen of the profession is missing.

  • The lessons of September 11, 2002

    The lessons of September 11, 2002

    On September 11, 2002, I found myself in a place as strange as Vegas. I was there to speak at a web conference. They must have gotten a good deal on the rooms, it being…

  • Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!

    Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!

    In Issue No. 267 of A LIST APART, For People Who make Websites, Mental Models author Indi Young tells how to get out of your own way and hear what your users are telling you…

  • Phoneless

    Phoneless

    Cost to replace an out-of-warranty iPhone 1.0 with a refurbished version of the same model: $199. Minimum wait time: two hours. Cost to replace it with a “new” model: also $199. Minimum wait for that…

  • Communication Marches On

    Communication Marches On

    A failure to connect.