Category: Design
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Designer Flow Chart Picks Typefaces For Your Projects
Tired of staring at your font collection, wondering what a trained graphic designer would do with all those typefaces? Unsure whether Times or Miller is the more appropriate choice for that vaguely left-leaning newspaper you…
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The future of web standards
“Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…
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HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.
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960 Pixel Grids Made Easy
Listen up, web designers. From Stuntbox with love comes Gridulator, a dandy free web application that calculates multi-column grids for all your pixel-based web layout needs. Creator David Sleight explains how it works: Tell Gridulator…
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Animated Me
Thanks, Michel Bozgounov.
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Scientific American redesign
Happy Cog’s redesign of the Scientific American website, featuring wicked web fonts Prelude and Brunel, is alive! Roger Black Studio did the print redesign and supervised the project; Font Bureau created Prelude; Paul Barnes designed…
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Episode 20: Designing Web Applications, Managing Teams, and Creating Readability
Rich Ziade, creator of the popular reading tool Readability, guests on Thursday’s today’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience. Richard Ziade is the founding…
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ALA 314: Web Forms Magic
Issue No. 314 of A List Apart For People Who Make Websites is all about your form. Ryan Seddon shows how to reduce errors and guide users to success via new methods made possible by…
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An Event Apart, The Musical
? See more: An Event Apart, The Musical
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Five Billionth Flickr photo
Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute. Here is the five billionth.
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Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter
Designer Aarron Walter guests on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience. Aarron is the author of one of my favorite web design books,…
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ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!
In Issue No. 313 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Better content management systems start with content strategy; typographically beauteous web pages may benefit from hyphenation and justification. Strategic Content Management by…
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My other iPad is a Kindle
The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…
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Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates
Legendary art director Roger Black guests on tomorrow’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Roger co-founded the following new companies: Webtype, creators…
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HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook
Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers is now available as an epub at books.alistapart.com. If you bought the paperback, watch your inbox for a special discount on the ebook. (To take advantage of this offer,…