Category: Design
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Help deserving web designers find fame.
THE UNDER-KNOWN HAVE EVERYTHING going for them except recognition. Let’s do something about that. Name talented web designers who deserve wider attention. Include at least one URL and a Twitter-length comment as to why their…
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To my friend who thinks I should not accept awards.
OLIVER REICHENSTEIN—iA to Twitter friends like me—thinks it is wrong for experienced designers to accept design awards. Oliver says: All awards should go from old uncles (like me or @zeldman or who ever) to young…
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Design Agency of the Year
I TOOK THIS PHOTO TONIGHT in London at the 2010 .net Awards, where Happy Cog took home the award for Design Agency of the Year, besting Centersource and our good friends at Clearleft (who took…
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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.…
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Episode 27: Andy Clarke – It’s Hardboiled
ANDY CLARKE JOINS Dan Benjamin and me to talk about his new book Hardboiled Web Design, how to handle clients, and a fresh way to design with HTML5 and CSS3 in Episode 27 of The…
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Support the families of the fallen, if Facebook lets you.
ONSTAR WILL DONATE up to $250,000 to the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. For every person who fans OnStar, they will donate a dollar to the families. This is a…
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Managing Facebook Like. Or not.
I’M ON FACEBOOK. I want to see everything I supposedly “like” and prune the list of things I don’t. There should be a page where I can do this—that’s UX Design 101—but instead there’s just…
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A message from P Diddy
Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” – J.Zeldman LTTP 12.14.10 twitter.com/#!/iamdiddy/status/1835882504003584
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Wikipedia sucks on web design.
“WEB DESIGN” NEEDS HELP. Authoritative though it may be on countless other topics, when it comes to web design, Wikipedia sucks. In short, Wikipedia’s entry on “Web Design” needs your help. You know what to…
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Away From My Desk
I am in glorious California where it bends down to kiss Tijuana, about to begin Day II of An Event Apart San Diego, the fifth and final sold-out AEA conference event of 2010. If you…
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Happy Cog wins Best in Class
Happy Cog has won a “Best In Class” Interactive Media Award for the official Philadelphia tourism site, visitphilly.com in the travel/tourism category. According to the IMA: The Best in Class award is the highest honor…
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Weirdest Type Design Ever?
Movie poster captured by Heather Shaw. There are several variations, all equally baffling. I’m hoping there’s a concept behind it—that it’s bad design to make a point.
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BBEdit Revised, Reviewed.
I RECENTLY ATE dinner with a friend I hadn’t seen in 20 years. If you are in a position to do likewise, I highly recommend the experience. So much had changed, yet so much was…
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Making the web more awesome: Karen McGrane on the big web show this week
Karen McGrane, designer of The New York Times website and managing parter at Bond Art + Science is our guest on Episode #25 of The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at…