Category: Web Design

  • The lessons of September 11, 2002

    The lessons of September 11, 2002

    On September 11, 2002, I found myself in a place as strange as Vegas. I was there to speak at a web conference. They must have gotten a good deal on the rooms, it being…

  • Tracking Elections From the Ground Up

    Tracking Elections From the Ground Up

    PollTrack is a new website that combines poll tracking data and written analysis to decipher “what voters are actually thinking and feeling” in the lead-up to the election.

  • Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco

    Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.

  • Books-a-Million

    Books-a-Million

    Pssst. New Happy Cog Studios design. Books-A-Million Online Bookstore. It looks even better when you start using it. Details soon at happycog.com.

  • The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    The Survey for People Who Make Websites

    Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…

  • Here it comes again

    Here it comes again

    Coming Tuesday 29 July to A List Apart: the second annual survey for people who make websites.

  • Underwear

    Underwear

    One of my happiest memories is the day I quit my job. No longer was I a mere office shlub, meekly thanking life for the cold mashed potatoes it deigned to drop onto my plate.…

  • Around the Word with Web Talent

    Around the Word with Web Talent

    My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…

  • ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion

    ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion

    In Issue No. 262 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Ryan Irelan invites us to collaborate and connect with Subversion, and Christophe Porteneuve explains how to get out of binding situations in…

  • What happened here

    What happened here

    This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    An Event Apart Boston 2008 is over but the memories and photos linger on. Eric and I started An Event Apart because we saw the need for a live, concentrated, learning and sharing experience about…

  • Video: Jeff Veen on Data Overload

    Video: Jeff Veen on Data Overload

    Live onstage at An Event Apart New, Jeff Veen explains the magnitude of data we process every hour, and the responsibility of designers to help us make sense of it.

  • Art direction on the web?

    Art direction on the web?

    On Tuesday morning, while Malarkey was furiously getting himself permanently uninvited to Håkon Lie’s Christmas parties, and the jungle drums spoke of nothing but Firefox 3, Jason Santa Maria quietly slipped a torpedo into the…

  • Video: Cameron Moll on natural mapping

    Video: Cameron Moll on natural mapping

    Onstage at An Event Apart New Orleans, 2008, designer Cameron Moll discusses what happens when a computer novice bumps heads with a computer expert. HD video by Bonnemaison of Baltimore, MD. Edited by Ian Corey.…