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The Year in Design

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 24 December 2015

Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first.
Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possible with content.
90 percent of design is typography. And the other 90 percent is whitespace.
Boost usability and pleasure with progressive disclosure: menus and functions that appear only when needed.
One illustration or original photo beats 100 stock images.
Design your system to serve your content, not the other way around.
Remove each detail from your design until it breaks.
Style is the servant of brand and content. Style without purpose is noise.
Nobody waits. Speed is to today’s design what ornament was to yesterday’s.
Don’t design to prove you’re clever. Design to make the user think she is.

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From NYPL to DC Comics: the lettering of Ira Schnapp

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 23 June 2015

HE DESIGNED the lettering on The New York Public Library and the James Farley Post Office (“neither snow nor rain…”), created titles for silent movies, movie posters, and pulp magazines in the 1920s, and started working for DC Comics in 1938, where he designed the masthead for Action Comics, refined the Superman logo, and brought dozens of DC Comics texts and titles to life. A new exhibit at The Type Directors Club honors Ira Schnapp and sheds light on his decades of influential work.

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iPhone 4 holiday background

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 2 December 2010
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Here’s a little something I made for the holidays. Download the original, sync to your iOS 4 device, and enjoy!

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Minneapolis Remembered

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 29 July 2010

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 dozen of the most exciting speakers and visionaries in our industry explained why this moment in web design is like no other.

If you were there, relive the memories; if you couldn’t attend, steal a glance at some of what you missed: An Event Apart Minneapolis: the photo pool at Flickr.

Next up: An Event Apart DC and San Diego. These shows will not be streamed, simulcast, or repackaged in DVD format. To experience them, you must attend. Tickets are first-come, first-served, and every show this year has sold out. Forewarned is forearmed; we’d love to turn you on.

Photo: Jared Mehle.

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When Ads by Google Go Wrong

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 3 June 2010
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When Ads by Google Go Wrong

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This is My Brain on Flickr

Post author By L. Jeffrey Zeldman
Post date 28 November 2009
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AEA Seattle after-report

Armed with nothing more than a keen eye, a good seat, a fine camera, and the ability to use it, An Event Apart Seattle attendee Warren Parsons captured the entire two-day show in crisp and loving detail. Presenting, for your viewing pleasure, An Event Apart Seattle 2009 – a set on Flickr.

When you’ve paged your way through those, have a gander at Think Brownstone’s extraordinary sketches of AEA Seattle.

Still can’t get enough of that AEA stuff? Check out the official AEA Seattle photo pool on Flickr.

Wonder what people said about the event? Check these Twitter streams: AEA and AEA09.

And here are Luke W’s notes on the show.

Our thanks to the photographers, sketchers, speakers, and all who attended.

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Ready For My Closeup

DanielByrne [warning! Flash site with JavaScript auto-expand full-screen window] came to Happy Cog‘s New York office to shoot me for an upcoming feature story in .Net Magazine, “the UK’s leading magazine for web designers and developers.”

What can I say? I’m a sucker for the gentle touch of a make-up pad. Or of anything, really. I love this photo (shot by Byrne with my iPhone) because it captures the fact that I’m still really a four-year-old. It also shows what a genuine photographer can do with even the humblest of tools.

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