Category: maturity
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This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.
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“Where the people are”
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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You got this.
I’M LEARNING new tech and it’s hard. Maybe you’re in the same boat. Through the rosy lens of memory, learning HTML and Photoshop back in the day was a breeze. It wasn’t, really. And CSS,…
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The Year in Design
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…
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Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web
Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web
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A Beautiful Life
LIZZIE VELASQUEZ, age 25, weighs 64 pounds. Born with a rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, she was not expected to survive. Her parents took her home, raised her normally, and, when she…
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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…
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Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.
Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…
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SlideShowPro adds HTML5
Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…
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On Self-Promotion
You are a shameless self promoter!” he said. I can’t speak to the “shame” part, but for the rest: guilty as charged. Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this…
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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Dear anonymous
Nicest fuck-you ever.
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Lord of the Rains
I saw the bus doors closing. I saw a strange lady taking my daughter away.
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Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers…