Category: An Event Apart

The design conference for people who make websites.

  • Hog butcher

    Hog butcher

    A car is coming. It will take me to a building. In the building I will enter a ramp. The ramp will take me to a jet. The jet will take me to Chicago for…

  • San Francisco, here you come

    San Francisco, here you come

    I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying….

  • A Sale of Two Cities

    A Sale of Two Cities

    Join an amazing line-up of talented designers, developers, and thinkers for An Event Apart San Francisco — the final Event Apart show of 2007.

  • Event Apart Savings End Friday

    Event Apart Savings End Friday

    Earlybird savings on An Event Apart Chicago end this Friday.

  • Better Know a Speaker: Jeremy Keith

    Better Know a Speaker: Jeremy Keith

    Jeremy Keith, one of Brighton’s loudest web developers and a featured speaker at An Event Apart Chicago, holds forth on microformats, lolcats, and applying best practices learned from CSS to writing good JavaScript.

  • Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm

    Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm

    What’s up with Dan Cederholm these days?

  • An Event Apart iMix

    An Event Apart iMix

    By popular demand: most of the music from between sessions at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.

  • The Beatles slept here

    The Beatles slept here

    My body insists it’s 10:30 at night, but the sun tells a different story. That orb has barely begun to set over Puget Sound, whose ripples magnify and fragment its blinding whiteness. The sun and…

  • Hi, Mom!

    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.

  • An Event Apart Chicago 2007

    An Event Apart Chicago 2007

    Tickets are now available for An Event Apart Chicago—two days of web standards, best practices, and creative inspiration from Dan Cederholm, Louis Rosenfeld, Liz Danzico, Jeremy Keith, Jim Coudal, Luke Wroblewski, Derek Featherstone, and Jason…

  • An Event Apart Seattle sells out

    An Event Apart Seattle sells out

    An Event Apart Chicago goes on sale Monday.

  • Web Design Survey closes soon

    Web Design Survey closes soon

    If you haven’t already taken the web design survey, speak now, or forever hold your PC.

  • The Web Design Survey

    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…

  • Women in web design: just the stats

    Women in web design: just the stats

    The underrepresentation of women and minorities in the information technology workforce is like the weather: everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything. We commissioned a study. Its findings are disturbing.

  • From Bulgaria With Love

    From Bulgaria With Love

    They hailed from Bulgaria (2), Canada (12), Estonia (1), Finland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Singapore (1), Sweden (1), the UK (3), and the US (510). In all, 546 web artisans descended on…