Category: Design
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Big Web Show ? 111: Web Design Comes of Age with Andrew Clarke
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 111, Andrew Clarke and I discuss ten years of web design history, approaches to public speaking, running a successful freelance design business, the importance of writing, CSS3 easter eggs, growing…
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Big Web Show ? 110: CSS and JavaScript: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
IN BIG WEB SHOW ? 110, Nicole Sullivan and I discuss CSS Conf, building scalable systems that won’t break, designing for speed and performance, learning Ruby, Object Oriented CSS, a CSS Style Guide, Type-o-matic, practical…
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The Black Hole of The Valley
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: Guy goes into a venture capital firm, borrows money. Uses money to turn neat idea into product. Gives away product (or sells well below cost) to build a…
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An Event Apart San Francisco – Live
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Design Is A Relationship
MIKE MONTEIRO is a man on a mission. He wants to improve design by fixing the core of it, which is the relationship between designer and client. Too many of us fear our clients—the people…
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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