Category: UX

  • A List Apart 2010 Survey For People Who Make Websites

    A List Apart 2010 Survey For People Who Make Websites

    The data that you provide and we analyze is the only significant information about web design as a profession published anywhere, by anyone. Please take the survey for people who make websites.

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    I guest-edit .net magazine

    A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…

  • A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass

    Something remarkable awaits you in Issue No. 311 of A List Apart for people who make websites. Two wonderfully readable articles tackle the thorny subject of client relationships, providing practices, insights, and tips which, when…

  • Best chart ever

    Best chart ever

    xkcd: University Website.

  • 10K Apart – inspire the web!

    10K Apart – inspire the web!

    Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the…

  • 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…

  • Responsive design is the new black

    Responsive design is the new black

    The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The wide version. The blog of Mr Simon Collison, retooled as responsive web design. The narrow version. See more versions in Mr Collison’s “Media…

  • Whitney Hess, Ethan Marcotte, and Jason Fried on The Big Web Show

    Whitney Hess, Ethan Marcotte, and Jason Fried on The Big Web Show

    Update! Episode 8, featuring Whitney Hess, is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday 17 June at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me live on The Big Web…

  • Episode 7: Jared Spool

    Episode 7: Jared Spool

    Episode 7 of The Big Web Show is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. In this most excellent episode, co-host Dan Benjamin and I talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing…

  • Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…

  • 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,…

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • A List Apart No. 304

    A List Apart No. 304

    Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…

  • Touch Gesture Reference Guide

    Touch Gesture Reference Guide

    The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces including iPhone, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Android, and more. The guide contains an…

  • Design Lessons from iPad

    Design Lessons from iPad

    It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…