Category: architecture
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Flipboard Update Preview
FLIPBOARD, AS YOU DOUBTLESS know, is a social media magazine for iPad. Part RSS reader, part iPad publication uniquely curated by each reader, the app brings serendipity, discovery, and typographic excellence to the experience of…
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NYC Must-See
People who are coming to New York for the first time always ask me what they should see. So I’ve made a little list. Here are eighteen of my favorite places in New York City.
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iPad as the new Flash
iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…
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The future of web standards
“Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…
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I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…
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SlideShowPro adds HTML5
Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…
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I ? NY
New York Life Tower as seen from Happy Cog
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Design Lessons from iPad
It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…
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Tumblr v. Posterous
Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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Chicago Deep Dish
AEA Chicago, wrapped.
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…
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Tiny URL, Big Trouble
Joshua Schachter explains.
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ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile
How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404
What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong?