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The W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives that may be kinder and more reliable. The post CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users appeared first on Zeldman on ...

https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/

“The user is never wrong” means, when a user snags on a part of your UX that doesn’t work for her, she’s not making a mistake, she’s doing you a favor. To benefit from this favor, you m...

https://zeldman.com/2023/09/04/a-faster-horse/

AFTER USING the web for twenty years, and software for an additional ten, I’ve come to believe that I suffer from an affliction which I will hereby call “designer blindness.” Put simply, if...

https://zeldman.com/2014/12/27/designer-blindness/

I was taking my daughter to Laguardia Airport to meet her mom, who would then take the girl on to Chicago for a few days’ holiday-time visit. Laguardia is a large airport, with many terminals, ...

https://zeldman.com/2014/12/27/broken-all-the-way-down-seeking-basic-information-from-southwest-airlines/

Roll your own mini-URLs. The post Shorten this appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2009/08/10/shorten-this/

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? The post ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404 appeared fir...

https://zeldman.com/2008/11/18/ala-272-accessible-web-video-better-404/

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. The post Zing appeared fi...

https://zeldman.com/2008/08/06/zing/

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 List Apa...

https://zeldman.com/2008/05/06/ala-258-art-of-community-science-of-design/

For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don't. The post The feed is gone appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2008/04/15/the-feed-is-gone/

In Issue No. 255 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Sign Up Forms Must Die – Luke Wroblewski, Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! and author of Web Form Desi...

https://zeldman.com/2008/03/25/books-of-luke-and-aarron/

I'm afraid this is another of those entries outlining bizarre design decisions and perplexing usability quirks in the otherwise brilliant world of Apple computers and phones The post Usability ...

https://zeldman.com/2008/01/11/usability-problems-with-mac-sync/

An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, kicks off its 2008 season with An Event Apart New Orleans, a monster, 19-hour, two-day creative session. Join us April 24–25 ...

https://zeldman.com/2008/01/04/an-event-apart-new-orleans/

Appreciating web design for what it is instead of wishing it were something it's not; plus a better best practice for setting type on the web via CSS. And from the past: why typographically corre...

https://zeldman.com/2007/11/20/ala-249-sizing-text-understanding-web-design/

An Event Apart thanks its attendees, speakers, and sponsors for a great 2007, and announces dates and locations for 2008. The post Please and thank you appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Int...

https://zeldman.com/2007/10/11/aneventapart-2008-cities-dates/

Even experienced designers can find it hard to predict how their work willappear to people with various kinds of color-blindness. Two tools can help. The post Testing designs for color-blindnes...

https://zeldman.com/2007/10/10/testing-designs-for-color-blindness/

iPhone and iPod classic compared. The post To be of use to others is the only true happiness. Although a 160 GB iPhone would also be nice. appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Desi...

https://zeldman.com/2007/09/21/iphone-and-ipod-compared/

$100 savings on our final Event Apart conference of the year end Saturday, September 15. If you're planning to attend An Event Apart San Francisco , reserve your seat before the price goes up. ...

https://zeldman.com/2007/09/14/an-event-apart-savings-end-tomorrow/

The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007. The post Event Apart Chicago wrap-up appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2007/08/31/aeachicago07-wrap/

I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying.... The post San Francisco, here you come appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2007/08/22/san-francisco-here-you-come/

Apple has learned the marketing psychology lesson that Microsoft got first. For many consumers, convenience is of greater value than choice. A platform built of parts that work together seamlessl...

https://zeldman.com/2007/07/25/what-apple-copied-from-microsoft/