Category: Design
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Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers
Now online for your listening and viewing pleasure: in Episode 2 of The Big Web Show, Dan and I chat with Jeremy Keith—designer, developer, content creator, agency co-founder, speaker extraordinaire, and author of HTML5 for…
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AEA Minneapolis
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…
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HTML5 For Web Designers
WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…
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A Feed Apart preview
Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.
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Big Web Show No. 1 up!
FOR YOUR viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show’s Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit…
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Steve Jobs and Me on Flash
Assume I retweeted Steve Jobs’s thoughts on Flash. Note Steve’s concluding paragraph: New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus…
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Swiss Design
Swiss Origins – Graphic Design Highlights, 1933-1970 at Aqua-Velvet.
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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Like Buttons Falling From the Sky
CNN announces what you should know about Facebook’s changes: Buttons with the word “like” and a thumbs-up icon on them are going to start popping up all over the Internet [web]. By clicking one, you…
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Even Money
When a designer has no client, (s)he can sometimes do the best work. MONOmoda reviews a US money redesign by Michael Tyznik. The use of the Amendments to the Constitution is quite striking and smart.…
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Gawdz of Rawk!
Gawdz of Rawk on Flickr
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Go fly a kite
Oops! I forgot to write a blog post about the new $100 bill when I tweeted about it last night. It’s ugly as hell. And a perfect example of design-by-committee.
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces including iPhone, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Android, and more. The guide contains an…
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Verdana Pro (and Con)
Although Matthew Carter is overseeing the project and David Berlow of The Font Bureau is leading development, I’m feeling twitchy about Verdana Pro, a new print family from an old screen face. Start there: Verdana…
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Web charts with HTML5 + Flash
ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…