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Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today? The post This Web of Ours, Revisited appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design...

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/19/this-web-of-ours-revisited/

The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever! The post Akismet means never having to say you’re sorry appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design ...

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/09/akismet-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and...

https://zeldman.com/2024/02/21/in-search-of-a-digital-town-square/

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/

You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of. The post He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis appeared ...

https://zeldman.com/2022/05/20/he-built-this-city-the-return-of-glenn-davis/

Our static tools and linear workflows aren’t the right fit for the flexible, diverse reality of today’s Web. Making prototyping a central element of your workflows will radically change how y...

https://zeldman.com/2021/04/12/saving-your-web-workflows-with-prototyping/

A liquid page will resize to fit whatever size browser window (within reason) that the user has available. … the real goal in building a website is to provide the user with a seamless interfac...

https://zeldman.com/2017/11/19/dao-responsive-liquid/

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/

Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possib...

https://zeldman.com/2015/12/24/the-year-in-design/

A Helvetica For Readers: behind the site design for Robert Slimbach’s new Acumin type family—fresh at zeldman.com. The post A Helvetica For Readers appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Int...

https://zeldman.com/2015/10/15/a-helvetica-for-readers/

RESILIENCE: BUILDING a Robust Web That Lasts by Jeremy Keith. One of twelve hours of essential content at An Event Apart Austin 2015. But if you plan to attend, grab your ticket now. Early bird d...

https://zeldman.com/2015/08/06/web-design-essentials-resilience/

The interview was conducted by Nick Sherman at TypeLab on June 13, 2015. The website is part of Typographics TypeLab and is a demonstration of what can be done with web typography within 24 hour...

https://zeldman.com/2015/06/15/typelab-interview-with-jeffrey-zeldman-typetester/

Remember: the future will come whether you design for it or not. If your company charges $300,000 for a website that won’t work on next week’s most popular device, your company won’t be abl...

https://zeldman.com/2015/06/04/no-good-can-come-of-bad-code-ask-dr-web-in-a-list-apart/

TODAY marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Gates’s famous letter about the web, and my first website, batmanforever.com, created with Steve McCarron and Alec Pollak for Donald Buckley of Warner B...

https://zeldman.com/2015/05/26/bill-gates-anniversary/

HERE’S A WEBSITE one of my students designed when she was in Seventh Grade. (She’s 27 now.) Notice that Angelfire still sells ads on it. Wonder how well they perform. The post Click It app...

https://zeldman.com/2013/09/19/click-it/

THANK YOU for the screen shot. I was actually already aware that the type on my site is big. I designed it that way. And while I’m grateful for your kind desire to help me, I actually do know h...

https://zeldman.com/2012/05/18/web-design-manifesto-2012/

IN EPISODE NO. 65 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, us...

https://zeldman.com/2012/03/05/big-web-show-no-65-tim-brown-of-typekit-and-nice-web-type/

MY BIG WEB SHOW INTERVIEW with Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type will be posted tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some of the links our rapid-fire idea exchanged touched upon: FacitWeb on Typeki...

https://zeldman.com/2012/03/01/web-type-links-from-an-interview-with-typekit-and-nice-web-types-tim-brown/

IN The ‘trouble’ with Android, Stephanie Rieger points out the ludicrous number of Android screen sizes on a typical UK client’s website and comes to this conclusion: If … you have built ...

https://zeldman.com/2011/12/29/state-of-the-web-of-apps-devices-and-breakpoints/

I’VE TWEAKED the layout here with ITC Franklin Condensed from Webtype. It’s funny. My daughter always asks what’s my favorite color, and I can never answer, ’cause I love them all. With c...

https://zeldman.com/2011/10/01/a-better-franklin/