Category: Best practices
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Kiss My Classname
SORRY. I disagree. Nonsemantic classnames that refer to visual styles will always be a bad idea. I’m sure you’re a good coder. Probably much better than I am these days. I know most of you…
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Big Web Show ? 150: Giant Paradigm Shifts and Other Delights With Brad Frost
BOY, was this show overdue. For the first time ever on The Big Web Show, I chat with my friend, front-end developer extraordinaire Brad Frost, author of the spanking new book, Atomic Design. We have…
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Solve the Right Problem: Derek Featherstone on designing for extremes
12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – ? 3: Derek Featherstone was the 10th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco, which ended Wednesday. His session, Extreme Design, showed how creating great experiences…
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Identify “stress cases” and design with compassion: Eric Meyer
12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – ? 2: Eric Meyer was the 11th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco, which ended Wednesday. His session, Compassionate Design, discussed the pain that can…
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CSS Grid Layout with Rachel Andrew: Big Web Show
RACHEL ANDREW—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is my guest on today’s Big Web Show. We discuss working with CSS Grid…
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Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now
Separating structure from style and behavior was the web standards movement’s core revelation, and each generation of web designers discovers it anew. This separation is what makes our content as backward-compatible as it is forward-compatible…
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CSS & Design: Blending Modes Demystified
With a few lines of CSS, we can now flexibly add Photoshop-level blending effects to our designs. Justin McDowell (@revoltpuppy) leads the way in today’s A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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The Year in Design
Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possible with content. 90 percent of design…
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A Helvetica For Readers
A Helvetica For Readers: behind the site design for Robert Slimbach’s new Acumin type family—fresh at zeldman.com.
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Love. Listen. Learn.
We have to stop demonizing those with whom we disagree. Attacking the intelligence, moral fiber, and grip on sanity of those who hold opinions contrary to ours is as old as newsgroups. But we won’t…
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Web Animation with Val Head
How Does Your Brand Live in Motion? Designers Val Head and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss how to create an animation style guide, the genius of user queries, the web animation API, frame by frame animation, animating…
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Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web
By including ad blocking in iOS9, Apple isn’t trying to take down your site or mine—just like the drone program doesn’t deliberately target civilians and children. Apple is trying to hurt arch-rival Google while providing…
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Toward a more inclusive web form
Registering for school, paying bills, updating government documents—we conduct a significant part of our daily lives through web forms. So when simply typing in your name breaks a form, well, user experience, we have a…
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You’re welcome: cutting the mustard then and now.
EVERY TIME I hear a brilliant young web developer cite the BBC’s forward-thinking practice of “cutting the mustard,” by which they mean testing a receiving web device for certain capabilities before serving content, I remember…
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On Web Performance
Lara Hogan on Web Performance. One of twelve essential sessions.