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ALA 258: art of community, science of design

What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr [...]

An Event Apart New Orleans: thank you and adieu

An Event Apart New Orleans is over, but the memories and photos linger on.
Maybe it was the people. Maybe it was the extraordinary speakers. Or the staff, who made everything hum and shine. Or the keenly focused film crew. Maybe it was the sponsors. Or that crazy party. Maybe it was just the king [...]

The feed is gone

For a busy blogger, some content creation shortcuts work, and others don’t.

WordPress 2.5 unleashed

WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.

Zeldman on Talk Radio Today

Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”

Designers wanted

Happy Cog, Apple, Amazon, Flickr, Woot and more are looking to hire great designers.

All Bits on Deck!

We’re as pleased as pale punch to welcome web designer, CSS whiz, microformats monger, icon designer, outstanding public speaker, and best-selling CSS-design-book author Dan Cederholm and his freshly redesigned SimpleBits site to The Deck, our advertising network targeting web, design and creative professionals.

Facts and Opinions about Zeldman

Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.

Faster, pussycat

Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.

The King of Web Standards

A new article in Business Week might help designers who aren’t named Jeffrey Zeldman sell web standards to their bosses or clients.