Category: Design
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“You’re Now Free to Complain About the Wi-Fi”
LOUIS C.K.’s 2008 viral rant on Conan O’Brien be damned. Seven years later, in-flight Wi-Fi is still maddeningly slow, expensive, and unreliable. Bloomberg: Why Gogo’s Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
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Reframing Design
Issue ? 426 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, reframes the design process. Adopting modular design; testing and feedback in design.
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On Web Performance
Lara Hogan on Web Performance. One of twelve essential sessions.
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Job Hunting For Web Designers
When, why, and how to quit your web design or web development job.
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Designing With Words
Reading good writing about design, by someone who actually works as a designer, is a rare pleasure. What are you waiting for?
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Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web
Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web
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A List Apart Summer Reading
SUMMER is halfway over. Have you hid out for a day of reading yet? Grab a shady spot and a picnic blanket (or just park it in front of the nearest AC unit), turn off…
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Co-Design, Not Redesign, by Kevin M. Hoffman – An Event Apart Video
MOVE from the nightmare of design by committee to the joys of design collaboration. In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition, Kevin M. Hoffman explains how service design thinking,…
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This Week In The Death of Publishing & The Web
FAST COMPANY writes: Apple, like Facebook, has entered into a standoff with the publishing industry and the open, if for-profit, web. And it’s being done under the aegis of design: choose a better reading experience…
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Give me file hierarchies, or give me chaos.
Folders über alles.
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The Nation, America’s oldest weekly news magazine, launches responsive, large-type redesign.
ON ITS 150th anniversary, The Nation (“a magazine of ideas and values”) relaunches its website, created in partnership with Blue State Digital and Diaspark. As one would expect of an editorially focused web entity in…
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A List Apart ? 423: container queries, responsive content
WHETHER the topic is responsive CSS or content that responds to the right user at the right time, Issue ? 423 of A List Apart is all about finding the path forward: Container Queries: Once…
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Usability Testing
Usability testing doesn’t reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking.
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From NYPL to DC Comics: the lettering of Ira Schnapp
HE DESIGNED the lettering on The New York Public Library and the James Farley Post Office (“neither snow nor rain…”), created titles for silent movies, movie posters, and pulp magazines in the 1920s, and started…
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A List Apart ? 422: So Emotional
ISSUE ? 422 of A List Apart for people who make websites is all about working with the human element: The Homepage Exception By Johanna Bates Structured, automatic systems are great at managing content efficiently—but…