Category: work
Footprints in the sand.
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Jason Has Left the Building
Beginnings and endings.
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An Event Apart redesigned
There’s a new aneventapart.com in town, featuring a 2009 schedule and a reformulated design. I designed the new site and Eric Meyer coded. (Validation freaks, only validator.nu is up to the task of recognizing the…
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Time Warner Cable canceling Noggin?
Although Time Warner Cable’s uncountable levels of existential suckage could induce vomiting in a giraffe, reality is never as clear-cut as a crawl on Noggin.
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Recession tips for web designers
“For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of…
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ALA 274: The emerging content strategist
A website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver. Learn why content matters and how to do it right.
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“Invent something new”
“Jeffrey Zeldman: Inventing Something New on the Planet” is an interview at designinterviews.com.
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20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet.
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ALA No. 273: trad vs. agile
How traditional, research-based IA leads to better site design—and why many are abandoning traditional methods in favor of agile design.
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Cognition
Two brilliant user experience pros join Happy Cog Studios.
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Fast high-speed access for NYC internet professionals
I’m home watching a sick kid and waiting for Time Warner Cable to come make a third attempt to install a cable modem.
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ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home
Progressive enhancement with CSS. Working from home: readers respond.
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Housing Works launch
Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.
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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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Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!
In Issue No. 267 of A LIST APART, For People Who make Websites, Mental Models author Indi Young tells how to get out of your own way and hear what your users are telling you…
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ALA 266: next generation sprites, metaphors
CSS Sprites, the next generation. Cartography, the next metaphor for webmaking. Dave Shea and Aaron Rester aim high and score in Issue No. 266 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.