Category: writing

The art of the well-chosen syllable.

  • Designing For Touch

    Designing For Touch

    Design’s future is in your hands. Designing For Touch by Josh Clark (foreword by Brad Frost) guides you through the new frontier in design.

  • Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web

    Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web

    Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web

  • A List Apart ? 419: Narratives & Conversations

    A List Apart ? 419: Narratives & Conversations

    IN ISSUE ? 419 of A List Apart: Do Androids Dream in Free Verse by JOSCELIN COOPER From ATMs to Siri to the button text in an application user interface, we “talk” to our tech—and…

  • Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?

    Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium?

    Why are independent content creators afraid of Medium.com?

  • Eight Days in April

    Eight Days in April

    I’ve been busy this week, writing for Fournova and Medium, and appearing on Unfinished Business with Andrew Clarke and Dan Mall.

  • LISP – Fresh on Medium

    LISP – Fresh on Medium

    I’d like to share a joke I wrote in my sleep this morning.

  • Marchgasm!

    Marchgasm!

    I’VE BEEN BUSY this month: Updated! Writing the Book on Web Design, Jeffrey Zeldman interview, Communication Arts Insights, March 24, 2015. “This is the beauty of a design career: you have the opportunity to create…

  • This is a Website

    This is a Website

    LAST NIGHT at dinner, my friend Tantek Çelik (and if you don’t know who he is, learn the history of your craft) lamented that there was no longer any innovation in blogging—and hadn’t been for…

  • Big Web Show ? 98: Designer Debbie Millman

    Big Web Show ? 98: Designer Debbie Millman

    I CHAT with internet radio pioneer, design author, and brand maven Debbie Millman about broadcasting, writing, teaching, publishing, learning to be happy in your own skin, and the importance of early failure to long-term success…

  • 140 Characters is a Joke

    140 Characters is a Joke

    THERE IS ALWAYS more to the story than what we are told. I am not omniscient. It is better to light a single candle than to join a lynch mob. Other people’s behavior is not…

  • From an imaginary novel

    From an imaginary novel

    I AM Jewish but my parents named me Jesus, which they pronounced Hay-Seuss, with an emphasis on the Hay. You can imagine the joy of being me in public school. First day of kindergarten, Miss…

  • This media life – and death

    This media life – and death

    IN A GORGEOUSLY PACED ESSAY at n+1, “the magazine that believes history isn’t over just yet,” an amazing young (22?) writer named Alice Gregory reviews a novel by Gary Shteyngart while simultaneously describing her exhausted…

  • Responsive Web Design – The Book

    Responsive Web Design – The Book

    SOME IDEAS SEEM inevitable once they arrive. It’s impossible for me to conceive of the universe before rock and roll or to envision Christmas without Mr Dickens’s Carol, and it’s as tough for my kid…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Top Web Books of 2010

    Top Web Books of 2010

    “It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…