Category: development

Creating interactive spaces by writing code.

  • Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web

    Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web

    Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web

  • The Nation, America’s oldest weekly news magazine, launches responsive, large-type redesign.

    The Nation, America’s oldest weekly news magazine, launches responsive, large-type redesign.

    ON ITS 150th anniversary, The Nation (“a magazine of ideas and values”) relaunches its website, created in partnership with Blue State Digital and Diaspark. As one would expect of an editorially focused web entity in…

  • No Good Can Come of Bad Code: Ask Dr Web in A List Apart

    No Good Can Come of Bad Code: Ask Dr Web in A List Apart

    Remember: the future will come whether you design for it or not. If your company charges $300,000 for a website that won’t work on next week’s most popular device, your company won’t be able to…

  • The Web is not Poor Man’s Native | in progress

    The Web is not Poor Man’s Native | in progress

    TAKE A LOOK in dev tools; maybe you don’t need a couple of dozen trackers on every page. Chris Wilson on why Web vs. Native is the wrong question, and what web developers can do…

  • No Ken Do (Musketeer Barbie Saves the Prince)

    No Ken Do (Musketeer Barbie Saves the Prince)

    I WATCHED dozens of Barbie videos hundreds of times when my daughter was three and four years old. I can’t praise their animation, dialog, or other cinematic and literary qualities, but this I can say…

  • Become a Web Developer: Avi Flombaum of The Flatiron School on Big Web Show 89

    Become a Web Developer: Avi Flombaum of The Flatiron School on Big Web Show 89

    AVI FLOMBAUM, dean of The Flatiron School, is my guest in Big Web Show Episode No. 89. A 28-year-old Rubyist, Skillsharer, storyteller and entrepreneur, Avi founded Designer Pages and NYC on Rails before creating The…

  • Big Web Show: Monkey Do!

    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…

  • Big Web Show 79: Eric Meyer

    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…

  • Big Web Show 77: @sazzy

    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…

  • Will the last digital canvas please turn out the lights?

    Will the last digital canvas please turn out the lights?

    DESIGNERS. WE LOVE CANVASES. It’s what we know. Even the cave wall had predictable, fixed dimensions. On the web, in the past few years, we’ve finally had to acknowledge that the canvas is not fixed,…

  • HTML5 Video Player II

    HTML5 Video Player II

    JOHN DYER’S MediaElement.js bills itself as “HTML5 <video> and <audio> made easy”—and that’s truly what it is: HTML5 audio and video players in pure HTML and CSS. Custom Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the…

  • CSS & Mobile To The Future | Embrace Users, Constrain Design | An Event Apart Seattle 2012 Day II

    CSS & Mobile To The Future | Embrace Users, Constrain Design | An Event Apart Seattle 2012 Day II

    TUESDAY, 3 APRIL 2012, was Day II of An Event Apart Seattle, a sold-out, three-day event for people who make websites. If you couldn’t be among us, never fear. The amazing Luke Wroblewski (who leads…

  • An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…

  • HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    Meeting of the Minds: Ethan Marcotte and AEA attendee discuss the wonders of CSS3. Photo by the incomparable Jim Heid. THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy! An Event…

  • The Big Web Show Episode No. 44: Designer Sarah Parmenter

    The Big Web Show Episode No. 44: Designer Sarah Parmenter

    SARAH PARMENTER (@sazzy, sazzy.co.uk) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 44, available for your listening and dancing pleasure at 5by5.tv/bigwebshow/44. Sarah owns You Know Who, a small design studio based in Leigh-on-Sea, specializing…