The little agency that could.
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Cold Storage Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
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Of Books and Conferences Past Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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“Where the people are” Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Fly, my designers, fly! 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 designers are realizing that they’re…
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Expressive Design Systems Yesenia Perez-Cruz started her career as a designer at Happy Cog Philadelphia. From the first day, her design gifts were unmistakable. As her career progressed, she moved from one challenging role to another. At companies…
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Unexamined Privilege is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review” UNEXAMINED PRIVILEGE is the real source of cruelty in Facebook’s “Your Year in Review”—a feature conceived and designed by a group to whom nothing terrible has happened yet. A brilliant upper-middle-class student at an elite…
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Happy Cog: Building Hand-Crafted Websites OUR FRIENDS at Typecast shot a video of some of Happy Cog’s designers discussing readability in design and the importance of great type tools to our process. Happy Cog: building hand-crafted websites from Typecast on…
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From Chicago, With Love HEY, FRIENDS. I write from the magical city of Chicago, where I’m enjoying the first Happy Cog Summit. Next week, following our meet-up cum strategy session cum karaoke party, comes An Event Apart Chicago, three…
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Leo Laporte interviews JZ IN EPISODE 63 of Triangulation, Leo Laporte, a gracious and knowledgeable podcaster/broadcaster straight outta Petaluma, CA, interviews Your Humble Narrator about web standards history, responsive web design, content first, the state of standards in a…
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A List Apart news Presenting Sara Wachter Boettcher, ALA’s new editor-in-chief. WITH THE RELEASE on July 10, 2012 of the A List Apart Summer Reading Issue (a collection of favorite articles from 355 issues of the magazine), ALA’s editor-in-chief…
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Happy Cog Web Designers Join Ganapati Kulam “YESTERDAY AND TODAY the Ganapati Kulam held a two-day intensive kick-off meeting with three members of Happy Cog, a leading web-design firm that the monastery hired for a complete, professional redesign of this Himalayan Academy/Kauai’s…
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Two Years Ago: HTML5 SuperFriends Meet in New York IMG_4991.JPG | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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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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One blog post is worth a thousand portfolio pieces. I HIRED JASON SANTA MARIA after reading this post on his site. The year was 2004. Douglas Bowman, one of my partners on a major project, had just injured himself and was unable to work.…
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On Creative Direction IN MY APPRENTICE DAYS, I worked for Marvin Honig, a Hall of Fame copywriter who created indelible commercials for Alka-Seltzer, Cracker Jack, and Volkswagen during the 1960s and 1970s, and who assumed creative leadership of…
