Design Archives

An Event Apart redesigned

1 January 2009

There’s a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the…

It’s a gift! Desktop for your pleasure.

22 December 2008

Happy holidays!

Understanding web design, live on video

19 December 2008

Jeffrey Zeldman: Understanding Web Design is a good quality video capture of my presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference.

Making Modular Layout Systems

15 December 2008

Jason Santa Maria details his approach to building a modular system for laying out pages with CSS—“a handy way to predictably tame content without becoming predictable.”

20 signs you don’t want that web design project

4 December 2008

Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.

ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile

2 December 2008

How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.

Extreme Markover

1 December 2008

…pits the talent and expertise of standards-based web designers against the challenges faced by underfunded nonprofits.

Blue Beanie Day is here

28 November 2008

Today is of course Blue Beanie Day. Thank you for supporting web standards.

ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404

18 November 2008

What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong?

Postage stamps by type designers

11 November 2008

Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, and Hermann Zapf are among the creators of postage stamps by type designers on display at Kat Ran Press.