Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The latest iteration of An Event Apart is nearly upon us, to be held in Atlanta next month with subsequent sessions upcoming in Seattle, Boston, Austin and Washington, DC later in the year. Widely recognized as the most important conference of the year for web site designers and developers, An Event Apart offers a series [...]
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Two trends converged during 2011. One from the world of Internet connected devices and the other from web site design world. Statistics show that more people are connected to the Internet through some sort of mobile device than through a desktop or laptop computer. Web designers are scrambling to make sure that web pages are [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
You want to stand out right? You want them to notice you and hire you over the last three people that just walked in the door. As a designer working for a small firm myself, I’ve interviewed lots of people. Here are a few ways people have stood out to me over the years. They [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Nice article on Opera Dev by Chris Mills about Adaptive Design with media queries. Nested Figure Elements on Paciello Blog. The Sketchbook of Susan Kare: The Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face. Did you know about Susan Kare? I’d never heard of her before. I certainly think a mention of her contribution to the [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]
One Page Apps I Actually Use from CSS Tricks has several very helpful links for designers. You may want to keep them handy. I haven’t received an invite to Google+ yet, but I’m looking at other people’s reports on it. It’s so similar to Facebook, even though people are comparing it with Google WAVE. If [...]
Find out about the Games for Change event this June. Getting the jetBlues. Derek Featherstone explains why Jet Blue is being sued for having an inaccessible web site. A basic HTML5 Template shows you the skeleton of an HTML5 page. Re the Urban Outfitters copying designs and the power of social media: Sharing Gets More [...]
Read this: Content First. Why? Because you’ll learn about current changes and trends in web design that are important to you. danah boyd had a problem: Tumblr disappeared me. She wrote about it on her blog and within hours, Tumblr heard about it and responded. Tumblr called me, apologized & restored my account. More details [...]
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