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  • Never give up

    Never give up

    The really good designers stand up to the misfortune of a killed idea.

  • Adelle Mono & Adelle Mono Flex

    Adelle Mono & Adelle Mono Flex

    Adelle and Adelle Sans have long been two of my favorite fonts—two great tastes that taste even better together! Now there are two more great flavors, with the release of Veronika Burian and José Scaglione’s twin-powered Adelle Mono family.…

  • The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign

    The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign

    Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his…

  • Limo to my bed of nails, stat!

    Limo to my bed of nails, stat!

    Unintentionally hilarious Style piece on Stoicism as misunderstood and ostentatiously practiced by trend-conforming Silicon Valley billionaires. (Ooh, billionaire walks five miles a day? So does everyone with two legs in New York.) nytimes.com/2019/03/26/style/silicon-valley-stoics.html

  • Friday Links

    Friday Links

    TEN great links to launch your weekend: If you missed Gerry McGovern’s brilliant An Event Apart talk on “Top Task Management,” the video’s here for your pleasure. If you missed Eric Meyer’s article “Practical CSS…

  • Breakfast Links

    Breakfast Links

    The finest linkage this week for web and interaction designers and developers.

  • Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now

    Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now

    Separating structure from style and behavior was the web standards movement’s core revelation, and each generation of web designers discovers it anew. This separation is what makes our content as backward-compatible as it is forward-compatible…

  • 1,000 nerds

    1,000 nerds

    THE MODERN SOCIAL WEB is a miracle of progress but also a status-driven guilt-spewing shit volcano. Back in the 1990s—this will sound insane—we paid a lot of money for our tilde accounts, like $30 or…

  • Product Management for the Web; Beyond Usability Testing

    Product Management for the Web; Beyond Usability Testing

    IN ISSUE NO. 357 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Beyond Usability Testing by DEVAN GOLDSTEIN To be sure we’re designing the right experience for the right audience, there’s no substitute for…

  • Wednesday Links

    Wednesday Links

    For your pleasure: Jason Grigsby: The Immobile Web Jason Grigsby (@grigs) discusses the next frontier: web-enabled televisions. Key points from this important BDConf speech transcribed by Brad Frost. With Slideshare video. Jeremy Keith: Secret Src…

  • The Impossible Year | Jeffrey Zeldman with Mini-Zeldman Doll Polaroid…

    The Impossible Year | Jeffrey Zeldman with Mini-Zeldman Doll Polaroid…

    JOHN MORRISON: Jeffrey Zeldman with Mini-Zeldman Doll Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Shade Jeffrey became the first person inducted into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. Afterwards there was a party with mini-Zeldman…

  • Mobile Web Resources

    Mobile Web Resources

    ONE of the most frequent questions we get asked about the mobile web is ‘Where do I go to learn about all this stuff?’ So here’s an extensive list of helpful tools and resources that…

  • Site update 20 August 2011

    Site update 20 August 2011

    GOOD MORNING! I’ve added some nifty external links to my About page. Enjoy.

  • Adactio on Responsive Design as a “Sea Change”

    Adactio on Responsive Design as a “Sea Change”

    I WISH I had written Adactio: Journal—Sea change. I advise every web designer who hasn’t yet done so to read it.

  • 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…