Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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Staying creative
Everyone is creative. But some stay that way longer. How can you designers, writers, and the like, stay motivated and productive? (Plus: When the client says, “Make it like eBay,” what exactly does that mean?)
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Words, words, words
Writing has always been the beating heart of online user experience. It is also the part that designers and developers are least likely to study, discuss, or consider. The exceptions to this rule are almost…
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ALA 241: better UI, scriptless trick ponies, and the deathly hallows
Unlearn a web interface design convention that causes users grief, and learn how to create a scrolling, fixed/liquid hybrid layout without using JavaScript (not that there’s anything wrong with it).
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WCAG Controversy and Human Design
By introducing testability and dumping accessibility criteria that are untestable, WCAG 2.0 may hurt the very people who need it most, argues former working group invited expert Gian Sampson-Wild in an important and timely ALA…
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Hi, Mom!
In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.
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ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers
Take web design off the production line. Design better by offloading routine tasks.
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ALA 238: copywriting 101, evangelizing 102
Convince large companies to openly support web standards; enhance site effectiveness by improving copy.
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Web Design Survey closes soon
If you haven’t already taken the web design survey, speak now, or forever hold your PC.
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ALA 237: client school
Generally, Issue 237 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about education. Specifically, it’s about educating bosses and clients to approve good design and make better strategic decisions.
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The profession that dare not speak its name
No one has tried to measure web design because web design has been a hidden profession.
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The Web Design Survey
In all the years people have been creating websites, nobody has bothered to gather statistics about who does this work, using what skills, under what conditions, and for what kinds of compensation. It’s time for…
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ALA 235: vertical grids, accessible web apps
Increase your web application’s accessibility via WAI-ARIA and take control of your online typography with a baseline grid.
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ALA 234 triple-header
In triple issue no. 234 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: probe your users’ minds, progressively enhance your interface, and unleash your inner DOM geek.
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A List Apart dinner at SXSW
About 25 A List Apart staffers, Happy Cogs, and friends broke bread at SXSW.
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Austin Power
As snow falls prettily on the island of Manhattan, Mrs Zeldman and I prepare for our annual junket to sun-baked, star-studded Austin, Texas, accompanied by the keynote speaker of 2025 and cradling the blessed StarTAC.