Category: Design
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Icon Design Problem
Quick: what’s a good, one-color icon shape that says “clear”? A circle with an X? A circle slash? No, this isn’t delete — this is like clearing the list in Safari’s download window. Just removing…
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Wish I’d invented it
Arc90 Lab’s Readability is a simple and essential tool that “makes reading on the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.” Just choose your settings, install the bookmarklet in your browser’s…
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How sick?
How sick am I today? This sick.
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Laying Pipe
Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…
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Flash, iPad, Standards
Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash…
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Hear This!
Dan Benjamin, creator of wonderful websites, apps, broadcasts, and platforms and longtime friend of A List Apart and your host, introduces a new venture. 5 by 5 Studios is a new internet broadcasting network, home…
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SVG: A Second Look
In a special double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Shelley Powers takes a second look at SVG and likes what she sees. You may, too. Many of us think of…
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Lost in Space
Jeffrey Zeldman onstage at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Onno de Jong from last night’s AIGA/NY talk and birthday celebration, curated by Jason Santa Maria.
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The Favorites Project
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Cog’aoke is coming. Again.
It’s the return of Cog’aoke. Video: Ian Corey.
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AIGANY / MEMBERS SERIES: THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Tuesday, 12 January, live from DUMBO, Carin Goldberg, Mike Essl and I take to the stage to share about “the one that got away.” Come hear our tales of woe, and see work that never…
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Ad Heaven
Gender advertisements of the 1970s are but one category and decade among hundreds available to blow your mind at the Vintage Ad Browser. You can even search by color, which works remarkably well. Artifact-heavy low-res…
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Fantasy Interfaces
Mark Coleran designs, creates, and animates fantasy user interfaces for film. Hat tip: @Murtaugh.
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Design Decade
Not everything that happened in the 2000s sucked. Los Angeles writer and design gadfly Alissa Walker looks back at a decade in which the design field redesigned itself, “transforming from an industry that created better…
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Bangadelphia
Philadelphia is a happening little city, the cradle of liberty, and the site of Happy Cog East. It’s also a city that gets unfairly overlooked—like a beauty whose sisters are supermodels. But I have a…