Category: Design
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Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive
HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists…
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Après Thursday, le déluge – or, recapturing the intimacy of SXSW
SXSW INTERACTIVE is an amazing festival, conference, and annual gathering of the tribes—a place to see, be seen, and find out not only what’s happening on the web, but what will happen in the coming…
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A Book Apart No. 3: The Elements of Content Strategy, by Erin Kissane
BACK IN THE WEB’S Pleistocene period, I received an e-mail from a young content strategist. “Excuse me,” she wrote, “but there is a grammatical error in the current issue of A List Apart.” While I…
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Migrating from a conventional Facebook account to a public figure (“fan”) page – a report from the trenches
BECAUSE FACEBOOK LIMITS USERS to 5,000 contacts, I had to migrate from a conventional user account to what used to be called a “fan” page and is now called an “Artist, Band or Public Figure”…
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Like and Friend are broken in Facebook.
I CANNOT LIKE Happy Cog’s new Facebook page, due to Facebook’s unexplained and arbitrary limitation on how many things a user is allowed to Like. In Facebook’s world, it seems I Like too many things,…
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Episode 40: Andy Rutledge
ANDY RUTLEDGE (personal site, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 40, recording today, March 3, before a live internet audience at 5by5.tv/live. Andy is a designer, composer, author, speaker, bonsai artist,…
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Five Milestone Font Families
Departures: Five Milestone Font Families by Emigre
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FTC to investigate iTunes in-app purchases
I’m looking at you, Smurfs. Parental complaints over iTunes App Store in-app purchases in children’s games such as “Smurfs’ Village” have prompted the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, according to a new…
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New Sources of Social Awkwardness
MY 6-year-old connected her iPad Smurfs game to my Facebook account, and now she’s sending “I Smurf You” cards to my Facebook contacts.
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It’s My Tumblr (and I’ll blog if I want to).
Enjoy Kafka For Lovers.
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Meow Mix
I’VE TRAINED my cats to think they’re in charge, and to think they exact a tribute of two breakfasts from me each morning. Initially I feed them each half a small can of salmon. The…
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Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show
BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…
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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.
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Readability 2.0 is disruptive two ways
RELEASED LAST WEEK, Arc90’s Readability 2.0 is a web application/browser extension that removes clutter from any web page, replacing the typical multi-column layout with a simple, elegant, book-style page view—a page view that can be…