Category: A List Apart
From pixels to prose, coding to content.
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A List Apart ? 420: Add Friction to Interactions, Customize With Care
IN ISSUE ? 420 of A List Apart: Meta-Moments: Thoughtfulness by Design by ANDREW GRIMES Does the internet ever stop you in your tracks? Does it sometimes make you pause and think about what you’re…
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A List Apart ? 419: Narratives & Conversations
IN ISSUE ? 419 of A List Apart: Do Androids Dream in Free Verse by JOSCELIN COOPER From ATMs to Siri to the button text in an application user interface, we “talk” to our tech—and…
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A List Apart ? 393: Inventing & Documenting Design Patterns
A LIST APART Issue ? 393 is about documenting design patterns with a style guide and creating new ones with the z-axis. Creating Style Guides by SUSAN ROBERTSON A style guide, also referred to as…
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Why Sass? · An A List Apart Article
WE ARE PLEASED to present an excerpt from Sass For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, available now from A Book Apart. Why Sass? · An A List Apart Article.
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ALA ? 384: Unsuck Flat UI; Master Digital Project Momentum
Flat UI and Forms by JESSICA ENDERS Though some decry flat user interfaces as pure fashion, or as the obvious response to skeuomorphic trends, many designers have embraced the flat approach because the reduction in…
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Research Engine Optimization
IN ISSUE No. 381 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Connected UX by AARRON WALTER Your inbox overflows with customer emails suggesting features and improvements. Instead of benefiting, you feel overwhelmed by…
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ALA Summer Reading
AS PUBLISHER of A List Apart for people who make websites, I’m delighted to present our second annual ALA Summer Reading Issue—a deep pool of editor’s picks from the recent archives of A List Apart,…
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Think Outside The Silo
IN TODAY’S A List Apart for people who make websites, we are pleased to present… Designing for Services Beyond the Screen by ANDY POLAINE You redesign the website for an airline, but who is designing…
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ALA 373: Hack Your Maps, Grow Your Design Business
WE INTRODUCE new web design skills and share design business growth strategies in Issue No. 373 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Hack Your Maps by YOUNG HAHN Ever taken apart a…
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Big Web Show: Monkey Do!
IN EPISODE No. 86 of The Big Web Show, I interview Monkey Do studio’s Michael Pick and Tim Murtaugh. Mike, Tim, and I discuss the A List Apart redesign, responsive images and type, CSS Zen…
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Third-party metadata, honest web aesthetics
IN ISSUE No. 72 of A List Apart for people who make websites: “Like”-able Content: Spread Your Message with Third-Party Metadata by CLINTON FORRY Spread your content and control its appearance on Facebook and Twitter.…
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ALA 371: Performance is All
IMPROVE UX through front-end performance, and front-end performance through symbol fonts, in Issue No. 371 of A List Apart: Improving UX Through Front-End Performance by LARA SWANSON Adding half a second to a search results…
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A List Apart 5.0 – Highlights From The First Ten Days
ON JANUARY 25, for the fifth time since 1998, we overhauled A List Apart, the periodical for people who make websites. In addition to its traditional well-vetted articles, the new 5.0 model sports fresh streams…
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A List Apart Issue No. 367: Apple’s Vexing Viewport
In A List Apart Issue No. 367, Peter-Paul Koch, Lyza Danger Gardner, Luke Wroblewski, and Stephanie Rieger explain why Apple’s new iPad Mini creates a vexing situation for designers and developers who create flexible, multi-device…
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ALA No. 366: better design through translation; better contracts through design
IN ISSUE No. 366 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Designing Contracts for the XXI Century by VERONICA PICCIAFUOCO What’s the ugliest part of client/designer relations? Why, the contract, of course. Redesign…