Tag: Zeldman
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The Secret
If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we…
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My UX Superpower: Nothing Works!
Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After stints in academia, journalism, advertising, and music, I poured myself into web design in…
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Cold Storage
Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
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Of Books and Conferences Past
Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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I’m Here
All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual. In my youth, as I struggled with drugs, alcoholism, depression, and underemployment, it never…
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Crash Course in Judaism
At the Automattic Grand Meetup, 2019, @zeldman shares a tale from his childhood. #standup #comedy #zeldman #WordPress #Automattic
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The Wind-Down
LISTENING to Coltrane. Taking a break after assembling American Girl doll bunk beds. The tuxedo cat has appropriated Ava’s American Girl doll tent as his personal summer house. Ava is making up a song about…
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.
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Pain is my alarm clock
The pain that wakes me comes with the territory. The pain is good pain. It is the pain of taking care of yourself. The pain of recovery.
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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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I know that guy
Jeffrey Zeldman, photographed by Daniel Byrne for .Net Magazine.
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Redesign template finals
Two down.
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Orange you glad
Working on the footer of the zeldman.com redesign.
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Alternate color scheme
For those who find the orange background objectionable.
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Redesign in progress
The body and bottom of the next zeldman.com design are now finished. Tomorrow I start working on the top.