Category: launches
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My weekend project
By controlling what I listen to, and the order in which I listen, I’m slowly designing an infinite collage of my evolving musical tastes.
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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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New music from the beyond
Happy heavenly birthday to my dear, deceased, devil brother Pete Zeldman. Today, 5 March 2024, to celebrate Pete’s life… Lost in Sound Records is releasing an album of solo drums, Enigma, which will keep rhythmic…
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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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He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
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Ten Years Ago on the Web
2006 DOESN’T seem forever ago until I remember that we were tracking IE7 bugs, worrying about the RSS feed validator, and viewing Drupal as an accessibility-and-web-standards-positive platform, at the time. Pundits were claiming bad design was good for the web…
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Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.
Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…
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Cog blog offloads comments.
The agency launched by a blog finally has a proper one of its own. Happy Cog gently introduces Cognition. Speaking of experiments, there’s our comments section. [W]e’ve collocated our comments on Twitter. Share a tweet-length…
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I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…
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Happy Cog redesigns Zappos.com
Free overnight shipping; a liberal return policy; friendly service: it’s no secret that Zappos.com positions the customer as the cornerstone of their brand promise. Yet despite their success, Zappos.com was a website with a problem:…
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A Feed Apart 2.0
As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…
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Gowalla My Dreams
What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could…
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Hear This!
Dan Benjamin, creator of wonderful websites, apps, broadcasts, and platforms and longtime friend of A List Apart and your host, introduces a new venture. 5 by 5 Studios is a new internet broadcasting network, home…
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.