Category: Design
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Ten Years Ago on the Web
2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platform, at the time. Pundits were claiming bad design was good for the web…
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Introducing studio.zeldman
studio.zeldman is open for business. It’s a vision I’ve been cooking up, a new studio supported by some of the most talented people in our industry and everything I’ve learned in two-plus decades of web…
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Has Design Become Too Hard? – transcription
What follows is a transcription of Has Design Become Too Hard?, which I wrote for Communication Arts in June 2016. I transcribe it here against the day CA takes down its content. WE DESIGNERS love…
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Has Design Become Too Hard? | Jeffrey Zeldman in Communication Arts
Digital design is not what it used to be, we say. The fun has gone out of it. An endless deluge of frameworks and technologies has leached the creativity out of what we make and…
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Position Wanted: Front-End Director
WE have creative directors and design directors, but we don’t seem to have any front-end directors. And maybe we should. For years at big companies, people in different silos have written CSS with no information…
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Abandon Hope!
THE FILTHIEST men’s room in New York is on the 8th floor of 291 Broadway. You would think the men’s room at Penn Station or the bus terminal would beat any other for filth and…
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Shopify Partners Program wants you—and so do I!
Apply now to join the next round of Shopify Partner Studio!
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Getting to the heart of users’ deepest needs
We say we’re crafting personas to fit the needs of “real” people—yet we easily revert to abstractions when raw emotions enter the picture. Eric A. Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher are working to change that. In…
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Pinterest giveth, and Pinterest taketh away
AS MY design career has taken on more and more strategic and managerial freight, I’ve done less and less hands-on design. This year, I decided to change that. As part of my reimmersion, I found…
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Grid Layout & Flexbox City
CSS GRID LAYOUT is nearly finalized. Which means it’s time for designers and front-end developers to set the flags enabling their browsers to support the new specification, put CSS Flexbox through its paces, and see…
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Helvetica With Curves—And Other Updated Classics
NOT UNLIKE what Mattel has done with Barbie, the typographic geniuses at The Font Bureau are working on a humanist geometric sans-serif that could almost be thought of as Helvetica with curves. Forma is the…
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Foreword to HTML5 for Web Designers, 2nd Edition
Welcome to the second edition of HTML5 for Web Designers, the book that launched a thousand sites—or apps, if you prefer. It is also the book whose first edition launched our little craft publishing house.…
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Sharing is Caring: the Shopify Partner Studio Program
As good as coworking spaces are, designers and developers do even better in a shared studio where the same talented folks come in day after day, sitting at the same desks every day. That’s why…
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CSS Grid Layout with Rachel Andrew: Big Web Show
RACHEL ANDREW—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is my guest on today’s Big Web Show. We discuss working with CSS Grid…
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A Book Apart Briefs!
From those wonderful people who brought you Responsive Web Design, Design Is A Job, Mobile First, plus thirteen additional instant classics of web design and development, here come A Book Apart Briefs: a new series…