Category: Design
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Save “Save For Web”
Software is politics: or, the seeming disappearance of Save For Web from Adobe Photoshop.
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An Infrastructure For Websites
Josh Koenig, Co-Founder & Head of Product for Pantheon Website Management Platform, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest in “An Infrastructure For Websites,” Episode ? 138 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters.”) Josh and…
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Zen & The Art of iTunes Failure
What a recent iTunes failure taught me about attachment to work and memories.
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A Helvetica For Readers
A Helvetica For Readers: behind the site design for Robert Slimbach’s new Acumin type family—fresh at zeldman.com.
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Web Animation with Val Head
How Does Your Brand Live in Motion? Designers Val Head and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss how to create an animation style guide, the genius of user queries, the web animation API, frame by frame animation, animating…
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This Machine Kills Pixels: Khoi Vinh on Design & Design Tools
Khoi Vinh (@khoi) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest this week. Khoi is a a Principle Designer at Adobe, design chair at Wildcard, and former design director at NYTimes.com. He blogs at subtraction.com. Over a cordial hour,…
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The independent content producer refuses to die!
We believe that the web is a remarkable medium for new forms of art, personal storytelling, and all manner of information and services whose rewards are not necessarily financial. The independent content scene is alive…
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@font-face and Web Performance
Unfortunately, the main issue with @font-face now is what many wanted to avoid years ago: the FOIT, or Flash of Invisible Text.
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All Websites Look The Same
When was the last time you saw a website that didn’t have a huge image fitting to the screen with some giant text overlaid on it? Why do all our websites look the same?
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Inclusion and Diversity at Slack
Inclusion and diversity: fully 41% of all people working at Slack have a woman as their manager.
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“Adaptive UI encourages us to be strategic.”
“Adaptive UI encourages us to be strategic.”—Mike Davidson on Building A More Unified Twitter for iOS.
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Toward a more inclusive web form
Registering for school, paying bills, updating government documents—we conduct a significant part of our daily lives through web forms. So when simply typing in your name breaks a form, well, user experience, we have a…
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Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity
For millions of people with vertigo and inner ear problems, large-scale web animations can trigger nausea, migraines, and dizziness. To make websites accessible for everyone, we don’t need to eliminate animation; we need to apply…
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Front-end devs, An Event Apart is hiring.
AEA is looking for a great part-time front-end dev. Progressive enhancement is your bread; mobile-first responsive design is your butter. Sweating web performance details is your idea of Saturday night; arguing the semantics of blockquote,…
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You’re welcome: cutting the mustard then and now.
EVERY TIME I hear a brilliant young web developer cite the BBC’s forward-thinking practice of “cutting the mustard,” by which they mean testing a receiving web device for certain capabilities before serving content, I remember…