Tag: Design
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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…
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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.
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ALA 261: CSS layout redux; in praise of prototyping
CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. “Faux Absolute Positioning” combines the strengths (and removes the weaknesses) of absolute positioning and float-based layouts. Plus:…
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ALA 260: Bolton vs. Boulton
In Issue No. 260 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Writing an Interface Style Guide by JINA BOLTON Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined…
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UX Zeitgeist (beta)
A colleague who is interested in learning more about user experience (UX) design, information architecture, and usability, asked what sites he should visit. I suggested he check the UX Zeitgeist (beta) section of Rosenfeld Media.…
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Flowers in your hair
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its San Francisco 2008 schedule. Join us August 18–19, 2008 at the Palace Hotel for two jam-packed 9.5-hour-long days of learning and…
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Content precedes design
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
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ALA 258: art of community, science of design
What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A…
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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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The feed is gone
For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don’t.
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Looks good to Mies
The Seed Conference, held in Crown Hall (the “Cathedral of Modernism” designed by Mies van der Rohe) is a one-day event about design, entrepreneurship, and inspiration. Speakers include Jason Fried (37signals), Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners),…
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ALA 256: map rolling & data viz
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Wilson Miner shares three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith shows how to replicate Google…
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WordPress 2.5 Preview
Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg opened the kimono on WordPress 2.5, built by Automattic and designed by Happy Cog: “For the past few months, we’ve been working with our friends at Happy Cog—Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria,…