Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design » A List Apart

Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions. The post “Where the people are” appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interacti...

https://zeldman.com/2024/03/02/where-the-people-are/

Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some...

https://zeldman.com/2023/11/28/fly-my-designers-fly/

Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’...

https://zeldman.com/2023/08/04/the-next-generation-of-web-layouts/

Jeremy Wagner’s “Now THAT’S What I Call Service Worker!” provides innovative techniques to harness the power of Progressive Web Apps with smaller HTML payloads and better performance for ...

https://zeldman.com/2021/03/25/service-worker-with-a-smile/

“IN AN INDUSTRY that extols innovation over customer satisfaction, and prefers algorithm to human judgement (forgetting that every algorithm has human bias in its DNA), perhaps it should not su...

https://zeldman.com/2018/06/01/the-cult-of-the-complex/

JOIN An Event Apart’s Eric Meyer on a journey through the inner workings of CSS Grid as he tests various techniques to build a tic-tac-toe board filled with content. Hearkening back to the earl...

https://zeldman.com/2017/11/21/faux-grid-tracks-eric-meyer/

TEN great links to launch your weekend: If you missed Gerry McGovern’s brilliant An Event Apart talk on “Top Task Management,” the video’s here for your pleasure. If you missed Eric Meyer...

https://zeldman.com/2017/03/24/friday-links/

Basecamp 3’s automatic check-in feature can build community and help you design your career and your life. It even brings back some of the joy we once derived from the days of the personal web....

https://zeldman.com/2017/02/18/automatic-check-ins-old-personal-web/

THIS year’s Poynter Digital Newspaper Design Challenge was an attempt by several designers and pundits, working and thinking in parallel, to save real news via design. In Part 1 of my report f...

https://zeldman.com/2017/02/06/readable-branded-design/

WHAT do you do when an accessibility solution you’ve devised for one group creates a fresh accessibility dilemma for another group? Through the prism of typeface choice, Eleanor Ratliff relates...

https://zeldman.com/2016/12/06/a11y-whack-a-mole/

A few years ago, my Swedish friend Peyo cofounded a start-up that brought affordable solar power to rural villages in India—profoundly poor villages where, until that time, folks had relied on ...

https://zeldman.com/2016/11/07/climate-change-swedish-hip-hop/

2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platfo...

https://zeldman.com/2016/09/22/ten-years-ago-on-the-web/

Apply now to join the next round of Shopify Partner Studio! The post Shopify Partners Program wants you—and so do I! appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2016/04/11/shopify-partner-studio-wants/

RACHEL ANDREW—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is my guest on today’s Big Web Show. We discuss wor...

https://zeldman.com/2016/01/11/cssgrid/

With a few lines of CSS, we can now flexibly add Photoshop-level blending effects to our designs. Justin McDowell (@revoltpuppy) leads the way in today’s A List Apart, for people who make websi...

https://zeldman.com/2016/01/05/css-design-blending-modes-demystified/

LEGISLATING THE WEB has long been murky ground. When glacial processes, uninformed committees, and international politics meet the individualized culture of the internet, friction ensues. Despite...

https://zeldman.com/2015/12/22/13894/

Registering for school, paying bills, updating government documents—we conduct a significant part of our daily lives through web forms. So when simply typing in your name breaks a form, well, u...

https://zeldman.com/2015/09/08/toward-a-more-inclusive-web-form/

Issue ? 426 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, reframes the design process. Adopting modular design; testing and feedback in design. The post Reframing Design appeared first on Zel...

https://zeldman.com/2015/08/17/reframing-design/

When, why, and how to quit your web design or web development job. The post Job Hunting For Web Designers appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2015/07/30/if-ever-i-should-leave-you-job-hunting-for-web-designers-developers/

Publishing Versus Performance: Our Struggle for the Soul of the Web The post Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design .

https://zeldman.com/2015/07/29/publishing-versus-performance-our-struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-web/