Category: Design

  • ALA 314: Web Forms Magic

    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…

  • An Event Apart, The Musical

    An Event Apart, The Musical

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  • Five Billionth Flickr photo

    Five Billionth Flickr photo

    Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute. Here is the five billionth.

  • Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter

    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,…

  • ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!

    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…

  • My other iPad is a Kindle

    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…

  • Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates

    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…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

    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,…

  • Announcing Lanyrd

    Announcing Lanyrd

    No, it isn’t a Happy Cog project (it’s by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn’t love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we’d created it ourselves. Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell…

  • Episode 17: Web Meritocracy

    Episode 17: Web Meritocracy

    Bay area designer Tracy Osborn (@limedaring) is our guest on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Tracy is the kind of…

  • iPad Fonts Petition

    iPad Fonts Petition

    Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad…

  • We’re speechless

    We’re speechless

    In What I learned at An Event Apart Minneapolis, Marc Drummond writes: A really good session, in my opinion, is not about the how, it’s about the why. … A really good session, through arguments…

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    I guest-edit .net magazine

    A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…

  • Return to Sender

    Return to Sender

    About 40 copies of HTML5 For Web Designers out of the first 10,000 sold have been returned to us because the recipients moved, or there was an error in their address. Returns come from every…

  • The Big Web Show Episode 16: Serious Doodles

    The Big Web Show Episode 16: Serious Doodles

    Sunni Brown (website, Twitter) is our guest on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Sunni is a business owner, author, and…