Category: Design
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Best AEA yet
An Event Apart Seattle, our first three-day show, was our best yet. Not only was every speaker engaging and every topic relevant, but there was a thematic unity between presentations as leading-edge topics came to…
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An Event Apart Seattle
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Screw the haters
Tasteful and true: iPad wallpaper by Anders J. Svensson at Veer’s The Skinny.
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Friday Font: TeeFranklin
Gloriously available for @font-face embedding, TeeFranklin by Suomi Type Foundry at Fontspring is a family of 14 weights/styles that may be perfect when you want to offer something a tad different from Helvetica and Franklin…
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Web Standards Trinkets
Support Web Standards: A collection of limited edition products, created so you can show your love and support for web standards.
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DWWS3e Live on Boagworld
There’s been a lot more opportunities for just thinking outside the very strict design parameters that we usually work with. Then just thinking about not just designing for any particular device but a particular context.…
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What the FAQ?
In Issue No. 303 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we question the received wisdom about FAQs, and learn that, in the land of the colorblind, contrast is king. Contrast is King…
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Test Print
Coming soon to a web store near you.
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Love Me Long Time
Those who say web users don’t spend time reading web pages haven’t met readers like you folks. According to Google Analytics, zeldman.com fans spent five minutes, fifty-five seconds reading the relatively short post, “My Love/Hate…
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In The Wind
When the young Bobby Womack told Sam Cooke he didn’t understand [Bob] Dylan’s vocal style, Cooke explained that: “from now on, it’s not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It’s going to…
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Crowdsourcing Dickens
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…
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Hockney and Friends
Circa 1963, Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and David Goodman; photo by Dennis Hopper. Scads more in “DAVID HOCKNEY | STYLE” at The Selvedge Yard.
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My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit
GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…
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Gowalla My Dreams
What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could…
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Hate and Love
Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale. (My SXSW photos. Scott’s SXSW photos.)