Category: A Book Apart
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Of Books and Conferences Past
Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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“Where the people are”
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Immersive Content and Usability
As the lines between our physical and digital surroundings continue to blur, it’s more important than ever to design usable and accessible content for our ever-expanding array of contexts. In 2021, A Book Apart and…
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Expressive Design Systems
Yesenia Perez-Cruz started her career as a designer at Happy Cog Philadelphia. From the first day, her design gifts were unmistakable. As her career progressed, she moved from one challenging role to another. At companies…
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Friday Links
TEN great links to launch your weekend: If you missed Gerry McGovern’s brilliant An Event Apart talk on “Top Task Management,” the video’s here for your pleasure. If you missed Eric Meyer’s article “Practical CSS…
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Automatic check-ins and the old, personal web
Basecamp 3’s automatic check-in feature can build community and help you design your career and your life. It even brings back some of the joy we once derived from the days of the personal web.
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Lara Hogan at Postlight
LARA HOGAN kicked ass at the Lara Hogan Demystifies Public Speaking event sponsored by Postlight and A Book Apart, and held last night in Postlight’s big beautiful public space on Fifth Avenue, around the corner…
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Ten Years Ago on the Web
2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platform, at the time. Pundits were claiming bad design was good for the web…
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Shopify Partners Program wants you—and so do I!
Apply now to join the next round of Shopify Partner Studio!
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Foreword to HTML5 for Web Designers, 2nd Edition
Welcome to the second edition of HTML5 for Web Designers, the book that launched a thousand sites—or apps, if you prefer. It is also the book whose first edition launched our little craft publishing house.…
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CSS Grid Layout with Rachel Andrew: Big Web Show
RACHEL ANDREW—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is my guest on today’s Big Web Show. We discuss working with CSS Grid…
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A Book Apart Briefs!
From those wonderful people who brought you Responsive Web Design, Design Is A Job, Mobile First, plus thirteen additional instant classics of web design and development, here come A Book Apart Briefs: a new series…
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? 139: Every Time We Touch—Josh Clark, author of “Designing For Touch”
Designer Jeffrey Zeldman discussed the ins and outs of touch-based design with Josh Clark, author of “Designing For Touch.” Why game designers are some of our most talented and inspiring interaction designers; the economy of…
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Responsive times two: essential new books from Ethan Marcotte & Karen McGrane
Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles and Karen McGrane’s Going Responsive are now available in our A Book Apart store.
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Designing For Touch
Design’s future is in your hands. Designing For Touch by Josh Clark (foreword by Brad Frost) guides you through the new frontier in design.