Category: eric meyer

  • Of Books and Conferences Past

    Of Books and Conferences Past

    Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.

  • “Where the people are”

    “Where the people are”

    Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.

  • Rams

    Rams

    We show our audience Gary Hustwit’s “Rams”—a documentary about product design icon Dieter Rams—during the lunch hour at An Event Apart. We’ve shown Gary’s film in every city of our tour this year, and every…

  • Streaming suicide and other design decisions

    Streaming suicide and other design decisions

    We who create websites and applications must remain mindful, honest, and vigilant. We must strive to work in diverse teams that are better than homogenous groups at glimpsing and preparing for the unforeseen. More than…

  • Identify “stress cases” and design with compassion: Eric Meyer

    Identify “stress cases” and design with compassion: Eric Meyer

    12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – ? 2: Eric Meyer was the 11th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco, which ended Wednesday. His session, Compassionate Design, discussed the pain that can…

  • Ten Years Ago on the Web

    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…

  • Unexamined Privilege is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”

    Unexamined Privilege is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”

    UNEXAMINED PRIVILEGE is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”—a feature conceived and designed by a group to whom nothing terrible has happened yet. A brilliant upper-middle-class student at an elite…

  • The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    WHEN my daughter was little, she used to ask me my favorite color. I was a grownup, and could only supply a grownup’s answer: “I love the way light looks in late afternoon,” I might…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Top Web Books of 2010

    Top Web Books of 2010

    “It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…

  • Minneapolis Remembered

    Minneapolis Remembered

    The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…