Category: wisdom
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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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Fly, my designers, fly!
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re…
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The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment
THE FIRST THING I got about the web was its ability to empower the maker. The year was 1995, and I was tinkering at my first website. The medium was raw and ugly, like a…
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Change
The change you experienced last night at midnight is available to you every moment of every day. Dan Benjamin,1 January 2010
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it takes a train
When asked why there’s so much pain Jesus and Buddha will tell me the same: “Shit happens, and people change.”
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…
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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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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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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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Stealing design
Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.