Category: Design
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Animate This: Val Head on CSS, Pittsburgh, and The Big Web Show
DESIGNER/DEVELOPER Val Head and I discuss her new book A Pocket Guide to CSS Animations (Five Simple Steps, 2013); the Web Design Day conference; working as a hired gun; JavaScript and CSS animation; the great…
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An Event Apart 2014 Schedules Posted
IT’S NOT NEWS that all eight An Event Apart conferences in 2014 are open for registration. But this is new: we’ve now published complete schedules and speaker lineups for the first three shows of the…
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Big Web Show ? 102: Sass for Web Designers with Dribbble’s Dan Cederholm
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A List Apart № 383: It Ain’t Easy Being Green
A LIST APART ? 383 tackles our impact on the biosphere: Sustainable Web Design by JAMES CHRISTIE Do you know your website’s carbon footprint? Or how to lower it? Emissions standards have been set for…
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Dispossessed
@kirilnyc @naveen Soho Apple store circa 11:30pm pic.twitter.com/Q0PAKflG9A — Jordan Elpern-Waxman (@jelpernw) September 20, 2013 “HOMELESS FOLK sleeping in front of the SoHo Apple Store. What a perfect commentary on our society,” I thought. Then…
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That’s Me All Over
BY SOME FLUKE I appear in two internet radio broadcasts this week: The Gently Mad Podcast: Jeffrey Zeldman “Jeffrey Zeldman is an author, designer and founder of Happy Cog. He talked with Adam about the…
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The Lords of Vendorbation
Vendorbatory product “design” decisions stem purely from contingencies and conveniences in the code framework, which itself is almost always an undocumented archipelago of spaghetti, spit, and duct tape started by one team and continued by…
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Chicago, Chicago
AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites. Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski’s note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes…
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Vision & Flow: ALA 380
IN Issue No. 380 of A List Apart for people who make web sites: Getting to Flow by BREANDÁN KNOWLTON Projects go much better when you and your client are in a flow state. But…
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Deep Thoughts
Flat design is destroying the woodgrain background industry. — Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) August 6, 2013
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Zeldman Quarterly No. 1
#ZEL01, MY FIRST CURATED gift for Quarterly subscribers, has dropped. It contains a book of classic Blue Note jazz LP record cover designs, a jazz LP record (each recipient gets a different one), a framed…
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Think Outside The Silo
IN TODAY’S A List Apart for people who make websites, we are pleased to present… Designing for Services Beyond the Screen by ANDY POLAINE You redesign the website for an airline, but who is designing…
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Coastermatic’s Tash Wong and Tom Harman on The Big Web Show Episode No. 92
AMERICAN DESIGNER Tash Wong and British designer Tom Harman are the co-founders of Coastermatic and my guests in Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Tash and Tom recently resided…
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10 Commandments of Web Design (Notes by Luke Wroblewski on a Talk by Yours Truly)
“ITERATION isn’t just for visual design. It also helps you uncover insights. A List Apart found people are often commenting and re-tweeting articles before they read them. They learned this by iterating on where the…
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The Big Web Show No. 90: Paul Ford on emulators, archives, and the web
THE AMAZING PAUL FORD is my guest in Episode No. 90 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). In a fast-moving hour, we discuss computer system emulators on the web, designing web archives,…