Category: Announcements
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Get it right.
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big…
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Grateful X 2
Sometimes you are reminded how just how incredibly lucky you are to know and work with passionate, talented people.
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To Save Real News
IN a world where newspapers are dying and half the public believes fake news, what online news experiences need is design that is branded, authoritative, and above all, readable: Branded, because we need to convert…
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Introducing studio.zeldman
studio.zeldman is open for business. It’s a vision I’ve been cooking up, a new studio supported by some of the most talented people in our industry and everything I’ve learned in two-plus decades of web…
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Shopify Partners Program wants you—and so do I!
Apply now to join the next round of Shopify Partner Studio!
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A Book Apart Briefs!
From those wonderful people who brought you Responsive Web Design, Design Is A Job, Mobile First, plus thirteen additional instant classics of web design and development, here come A Book Apart Briefs: a new series…
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Bear Shot in Design Studio
“New office mascot: @zeldman rocking a bear costume” by Phillip Reyland. Photographed at A Space Apart, NYC. Bear suit courtesy of Shopify. No animals were harmed. Happy Twenty-Thirteen, everybody.
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For Your Listening Pleasure
THE BIG WEB SHOW is back, baby! In spite of hurricanes, blackouts, and the vagaries of international travel, my 5by5 audio podcast about “everything web that matters” has returned to weekly broadcasting. Here are the…
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My Brother is a Monster
MY MOTHER played piano and cello. My father draws, paints, and sculpts; plays trumpet and guitar; and led an advanced R&D lab in the 1970s, developing robotics and rocket parts. You know what I do,…
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Insites: The Book Honors Web Design, Designers
“INSITES: THE BOOK is a beautiful, limited edition, 256-page book presented in a numbered, foil-blocked presentation box. This very special publication features no code snippets and no design tips; instead, 20 deeply personal conversations with…
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An Event Apart posts 2013 schedule: 8 cities, 8 shows
AN EVENT APART, the design conference for people who make websites, announces its 2013 schedule: eight cities, eight shows. Registration is now open for: Atlanta – February 18-20, 2013 Seattle – April 1-3, 2013 San…
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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content
THIS MORNING Contents Magazine launched the beginning of something both good and important: a set of guidelines that could lead to a safer world for user-created content. Contents believes (and I agree) that products and…
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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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Readability ends reader fee program, gives uncollected funds to accessibility and writing charities
TODAY MY FRIENDS at Arc 90 announced that, as of June 30, 2012, Readability will no longer accept reader fees. Further, they will donate any uncollected funds to charities that support reading and writing. They’ll…
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Meet the 10K Apart Winners
ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS of the second annual 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart. Responsive apps under 10K Last year’s 10K Apart challenged readers to…