Category: User Experience
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Fold, Spindle
Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a…
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A List Apart 300
Issue 300 of A List Apart for people who make websites solves password-related usability problems with a dash of JavaScript, and employs content strategy to help your site do the right thing at the right…
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Laying Pipe
Dan Benjamin and yours truly discuss the secret history of blogging, transitioning from freelance to agency, the story behind the web standards movement, the launch of A Book Apart and its first title, HTML5 For…
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A Feed Apart
Live from San Francisco, it’s An Event Apart, for people who make websites. If you can’t join us here today and tomorrow, enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.…
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Less babble, more learning
Stop bewildering them with babble: communicate the business value of UX research to clients. Beyond keywords and killer headlines: make your rich content sites learner-friendly.
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Myths and Warnings
Learn what usability testing is and isn’t good for; discover the five warning signs of a bad client relationship (and what to do about them).
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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Real type, real drag
@font-face and browser performance: the bad news.
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Chicago Sells Out
An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.
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Brighter Planet beta
The Happy Cog-designed social network for Brighter Planet is now in public beta. Come on down, kick the tires, and hang out with like-minded people.
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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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.net interview
“There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS.”
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ALA 284: scaling video, avoiding burnout
Learn how to resize video on the fly. Identify the signs of burnout and learn how to prevent it.
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.
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“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book
“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.