Category: Design
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“Maybe” is one option too many
“Maybe” is one option too many. As a best practice, we should dispense with it, just as we should replace five-star rating systems with four-star ones.
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Hi, Mom!
In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.
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bgcolor follies
If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!
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ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers
Take web design off the production line. Design better by offloading routine tasks.
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Eight points for better e-mail relationships
Okay, so under the right circumstances, when people have requested it, e-mail can be a platform for design. Here are eight ways to make it work better (and avoid pissing off people who hate HTML…
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E-mail is not a platform for design
ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Since 1995
On 31 May 2007 we celebrated another anniversary. Twelve years of juicy Web 1.0 Goodness™.
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ALA 238: copywriting 101, evangelizing 102
Convince large companies to openly support web standards; enhance site effectiveness by improving copy.
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An Event Apart Chicago 2007
Tickets are now available for An Event Apart Chicago—two days of web standards, best practices, and creative inspiration from Dan Cederholm, Louis Rosenfeld, Liz Danzico, Jeremy Keith, Jim Coudal, Luke Wroblewski, Derek Featherstone, and Jason…
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An Event Apart Seattle sells out
An Event Apart Chicago goes on sale Monday.
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Conference speaker’s pledge
I will not yodel. I will not introduce my first slide by saying, “Here is my first slide.”
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Web Design Survey closes soon
If you haven’t already taken the web design survey, speak now, or forever hold your PC.
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How now brown wow?
Windows Vista. Adobe CS3. Which are you more excited about, and why?
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ALA 237: client school
Generally, Issue 237 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about education. Specifically, it’s about educating bosses and clients to approve good design and make better strategic decisions.
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The profession that dare not speak its name
No one has tried to measure web design because web design has been a hidden profession.