Category: Designers
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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…
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On Web Performance
Lara Hogan on Web Performance. One of twelve essential sessions.
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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:…