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The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?) I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.
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Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now Separating structure from style and behavior was the web standards movement’s core revelation, and each generation of web designers discovers it anew. This separation is what makes our content as backward-compatible as it is forward-compatible…
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The Year in Design 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 possible with content. 90 percent of design…
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Web Design Manifesto 2012 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,…
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10K Apart – Responsive Edition AS THE TITLE indicates, this year’s 10K contest requires that your applications be “reasonably responsive” (yes, it’s vague by design). The Responsive Design movement Ethan pioneered is still learning how to walk in the real…
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011 YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…
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Progressive enhancement: all you need to know is here ONE GLORIOUS AFTERNOON in March, 2006, as a friend and I hurried past Austin’s Downtown Hilton Hotel to catch the next session of the SXSW Interactive Festival, a young stranger arrested our progress. With no…
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“Mobile” versus “Small Screen” As we try to become more responsive with our designs, a lot of attention has been focused on providing “mobile” styles. We’ve all been adding viewport meta tags to our templates and @media screen and…
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How to work with a designer who is new to the web and wants to control everything Q. Working with print designer who is just getting into web and they want to control everything. Any advice on how to deal with them? – @FossilDesigns A. I ASSUME YOU’RE CODING what your colleague…
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My other iPad is a Kindle The new Kindle has a lot going for it. It’s inexpensive compared to a full-featured tablet computer like the iPad; you can slip it in your back pocket, where it’s more comfortable than an old-style…
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…
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Responsive Web Design Hot dang! Use fluid grids, flexible images, and CSS media queries to create elegant user experiences that fit any browser or device’s viewport. By Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition. A…
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More Mod on the Digital Book A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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Web charts with HTML5 + Flash ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…
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Opera loves my web font And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…
