Category: creativity

  • HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    Meeting of the Minds: Ethan Marcotte and AEA attendee discuss the wonders of CSS3. Photo by the incomparable Jim Heid. THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy! An Event…

  • Video: Rich Ziade & Jeffrey Zeldman discuss Readability at School of Visual Arts

    Video: Rich Ziade & Jeffrey Zeldman discuss Readability at School of Visual Arts

    RICH ZIADE AND I discuss the disruptive nature of Readability. From MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo. Share your thoughts.

  • The glory of the doodle, the grandeur of the sketch, in A List Apart No. 322.

    The glory of the doodle, the grandeur of the sketch, in A List Apart No. 322.

    In Issue No. 322 of A List Apart for people who make websites: respect the doodle, honor the sketch—use the power of visual thinking to create and share ideas: The Miseducation of the Doodle by…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Layer Tennis Championship Today.

    Layer Tennis Championship Today.

    Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the game of all games, a design denouement one incredible year in the making, the ultimate test of two unlikely heroes with even less likely names. Noper vs. Reyes. Layer…

  • Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…

  • Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart

    Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart

    ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am source of your browser woes. Template validates.…

  • Minneapolis Remembered

    Minneapolis Remembered

    The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…

  • SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    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…

  • The Great Salami Caper

    The Great Salami Caper

    In the late 1980s, while making efforts to move to New York City, I came up with the winning ad campaign for Hebrew National Kosher Salami. Only I didn’t win. Hebrew National held a contest…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…

  • Boston Bound

    Boston Bound

    Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…

  • Layer Tennis Around the World

    Layer Tennis Around the World

    Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with…

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    Crowdsourcing Dickens

    As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…

  • Model Site

    Model Site

    Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive. Like all good site redesigns, this one…