Tag: Design
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MFA Interaction Design deadline
Today, January 15, marks the first application deadline for students to apply to the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts. The school will continue to accept applications on a rolling admissions basis…
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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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Understanding web design, live on video
Jeffrey Zeldman: Understanding Web Design is a good quality video capture of my presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference.
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Making Modular Layout Systems
Jason Santa Maria details his approach to building a modular system for laying out pages with CSS—“a handy way to predictably tame content without becoming predictable.”
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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 272: Accessible web video, better 404
What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong?
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Postage stamps by type designers
Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, and Hermann Zapf are among the creators of postage stamps by type designers on display at Kat Ran Press.
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Is your (website’s) underwear showing?
It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site.
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Come up and see me
So it turns out I’ll be speaking about web design this Saturday at the sold-out AIGA Gain Conference. Yes, that conference. [tags]AIGA, GAIN, events, speaking, design, business, conference[/tags]
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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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Jubilat!
Darden Studio has relaunched its website and released Jubilat, a fabulous slab serif. We’ve been beta-testing Jubilat all year; it’s my principal typeface for An Event Apart in 2008. (Last year’s principal An Event Apart…
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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.
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Zing
The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.