Category: IXD

  • Web typography: a refresher and history

    Web typography: a refresher and history

    A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.

  • Web Design Inspiration

    Web Design Inspiration

    If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites.

  • A faster horse

    A faster horse

    “The user is never wrong” means, when a user snags on a part of your UX that doesn’t work for her, she’s not making a mistake, she’s doing you a favor. To benefit from this…

  • Saving Your Web Workflows with Prototyping

    Saving Your Web Workflows with Prototyping

    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 you approach problem solution and…

  • The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign

    The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign

    Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his…

  • Design Kickoff Meetings

    Design Kickoff Meetings

    Posted here for posterity: Design kickoff meetings are like first dates that prepare you for an exciting relationship with a person who doesn’t exist.

  • Jason Grigsby on Design Beyond Touch

    Jason Grigsby on Design Beyond Touch

    12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – ? 4: Jason Grigsby was the 10th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco last week. Jason’s session, Adapting to Input, presented designers and developers with…

  • The Year in Design

    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…

  • Chicago, Chicago

    Chicago, Chicago

    AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites. Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski’s note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes…

  • CSS & Mobile To The Future | Embrace Users, Constrain Design | An Event Apart Seattle 2012 Day II

    CSS & Mobile To The Future | Embrace Users, Constrain Design | An Event Apart Seattle 2012 Day II

    TUESDAY, 3 APRIL 2012, was Day II of An Event Apart Seattle, a sold-out, three-day event for people who make websites. If you couldn’t be among us, never fear. The amazing Luke Wroblewski (who leads…

  • An Event Apart Atlanta 2011

    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…

  • HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011

    Meeting of the Minds: Ethan Marcotte and AEA attendee discuss the wonders of CSS3. Photo by the incomparable Jim Heid. THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy! An Event…

  • Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design

    From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011: “Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • UX: The Enemy Within

    UX: The Enemy Within

    PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED to hear that I speak at conferences about content strategy and yet still do interaction design work for clients. Why can’t I love them both? I loved them both when I called…