Category: Design
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Blue Beanie Day is here
Today is of course Blue Beanie Day. Thank you for supporting web standards.
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ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404
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?
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Postage stamps by type designers
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.
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Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site.
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Um, don’t blog, or something
Wired, which ceased to be relevant in 1999, says you shouldn’t write a blog because, um, Calacanis and Scoble.
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ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home
Progressive enhancement with CSS. Working from home: readers respond.
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A List Apart No. 269: understanding progressive enhancement; 10 years of ALA
In Issue No. 269, master the basics of progressive enhancement and look back in orange at the first ten years of A List Apart.
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An Event Apart Chicago sells out
An Event Apart Chicago, the final AEA event of 2008, has sold out.
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ALA 268: rethinking standards
Fine-tuning the mechanics of progressive enhancement, and rethinking the assumptions of standards-based design.
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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A modest proposal
It is illegal to make false claims in a TV or radio commercial unless you are running for political office.
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Dear AIGA, where are the web designers?
For all the brand directors, creative directors, Jungian analysts, and print designers, one rather significant specimen of the profession is missing.
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Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!
In Issue No. 267 of A LIST APART, For People Who make Websites, Mental Models author Indi Young tells how to get out of your own way and hear what your users are telling you…
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Phoneless
Cost to replace an out-of-warranty iPhone 1.0 with a refurbished version of the same model: $199. Minimum wait time: two hours. Cost to replace it with a “new” model: also $199. Minimum wait for that…
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Communication Marches On
A failure to connect.