Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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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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A List Apart contributors list on Bluesky
I’ve started a Bluesky list featuring some of the brilliant writers, designers, coders, editors, and others who’ve contributed to A List Apart “for people who make websites.”
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Ah yes, the famous “intern did it” syndrome
Poachers, when caught stealing content from our website, always blamed the theft on an “intern” or “freelancer.” We always pretended to believe them.
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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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Fly, my designers, fly!
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re…
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The Next Generation of Web Layouts
Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’t offset by…
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Service Worker With A Smile
Jeremy Wagner’s “Now THAT’S What I Call Service Worker!” provides innovative techniques to harness the power of Progressive Web Apps with smaller HTML payloads and better performance for repeat visitors.
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The Cult of the Complex
“IN AN INDUSTRY that extols innovation over customer satisfaction, and prefers algorithm to human judgement (forgetting that every algorithm has human bias in its DNA), perhaps it should not surprise us that toolchains have replaced…
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Faux Grid Tracks by Eric Meyer
JOIN An Event Apart’s Eric Meyer on a journey through the inner workings of CSS Grid as he tests various techniques to build a tic-tac-toe board filled with content. Hearkening back to the early days…
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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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Accessibility Whack-a-Mole
WHAT do you do when an accessibility solution you’ve devised for one group creates a fresh accessibility dilemma for another group? Through the prism of typeface choice, Eleanor Ratliff relates how she and her team…
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From climate change to Swedish hip hop
A few years ago, my Swedish friend Peyo cofounded a start-up that brought affordable solar power to rural villages in India—profoundly poor villages where, until that time, folks had relied on dirty gasoline-powered generators to…
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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…