Category: Designers
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A List Apart ? 421 Gets Personal
THERE’S GREAT reading for people who make websites in Issue No. 421 of A List Apart: Resetting Agency Culture by Justin Dauer Forget Air Hockey, Zen Gardens, and sleep pods: a true “dream” company invests…
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Screen Time: An Event Apart Video by Luke Wroblewski
FULL-LENGTH FRIDAY is here again! Enjoy another great 60-minute presentation ? An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites: In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition,…
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Big Web Show ? 125: “You’re My Favorite Client” with Mike Monteiro
Monteiro and I talk design: Designers Mike Monteiro (author, “You’re My Favorite Client”) and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss why humility is expensive, how to reassure the client at every moment that you know what you’re doing,…
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Design Is A Relationship
MIKE MONTEIRO is a man on a mission. He wants to improve design by fixing the core of it, which is the relationship between designer and client. Too many of us fear our clients—the people…
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Big Web Show ? 102: Sass for Web Designers with Dribbble’s Dan Cederholm
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Chicago, Chicago
AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites. Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski’s note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes…
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Coastermatic’s Tash Wong and Tom Harman on The Big Web Show Episode No. 92
AMERICAN DESIGNER Tash Wong and British designer Tom Harman are the co-founders of Coastermatic and my guests in Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Tash and Tom recently resided…
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Big Web Show: Monkey Do!
IN EPISODE No. 86 of The Big Web Show, I interview Monkey Do studio’s Michael Pick and Tim Murtaugh. Mike, Tim, and I discuss the A List Apart redesign, responsive images and type, CSS Zen…
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Big Web Show 82: Creative Director Cindy Chastain
CINDY CHASTAIN, Creative Director & Experience Strategist at R/GA—plus actress, screenwriter, and freelance strategist—is my guest in today’s Big Web Show podcast, sponsored by Happy Cog. @cchastain R/GA Linkedin slideshare Lanyrd: bio Lanyrd: past speaking…
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Big Web Show 79: Eric Meyer
IN EPISODE No. 79 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview CSS guru, Microformats co-founder, O’Reilly and New Riders author, and An Event Apart co-founder Eric A. Meyer (@meyerweb) about upcoming…
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Big Web Show 77: @sazzy
IN EPISODE No. 77 of The Big Web Show, I interview returning guest Sarah Parmenter about designing an app for the homeless; the challenges of multi-device design; teaching HTML and CSS to young people; designing…
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Developer versus designer
TO A developer, the problem is a clumsy stacking of concurrently loading web views, interfering with the smooth functioning of JavaScript. To a designer, the problem is the idea sucks.
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Tweak This!
99designs, the Australian company that has made a fortune soliciting spec work (“crowd sourced graphic design”) from naive designers, and selling $99 logo customizations to small businesses, has just invested $460,000 in a new service:…
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Big Web Show 69: Chris Cashdollar on fonts.com
HAPPY COG Creative Director Christopher Cashdollar is my guest in Episode No. 69 of The Big Web Show, the weekly podcast on “everything web that matters.” In 35 lively minutes, Chris and I discuss the…
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Mike Monteiro’s “Design Is A Job” is finally available to buy or preview.
CO-FOUNDER of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, his brief book Design Is…