True Self
See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog’aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.
Filed under: Happy Cog™, SXSW
Multiple Partners
See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog’aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.
Filed under: Happy Cog™, SXSW
A List Apart Arabic
Since 1998, A List Apart has sought to serve the international web design and development community with educational, insightful, and sometimes visionary articles on web standards, emerging ideas and technologies, and best practices in content, usability, and design.
One barrier has long prevented us from fulfilling our goal to the utmost. But today we transcend it. Introducing A List Apart Arabic—an authorized A List Apart publication. Thank you and congratulations to Mohammad Saleh Kayali and his partners.
Look for additional international A List Apart editions, coming soon.
Filed under: A List Apart, Accessibility, Happy Cog™, Publications, Publishing, development
Lost in Space
Jeffrey Zeldman onstage at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Onno de Jong from last night’s AIGA/NY talk and birthday celebration, curated by Jason Santa Maria.
Filed under: AIGA, Appearances, Design, Happy Cog™, Jason Santa Maria, NYC, New York City, Zeldman, better-know-a-speaker, cities, glamorous
Cog’aoke is coming. Again.
It’s the return of Cog’aoke.
Video: Ian Corey.
Filed under: Community, Design, Fun, Happy Cog™, Karaoke, SXSW, engagement, events, experience
Three Days in Seattle
Three, count ’em, three days of design, code, and content. That’s what we’ve got lined up for you in beautiful Seattle, Washington. Including a special one-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, led by Jeremy Keith and Dan Cederholm (pictured above, extolling the virtues of caffeine and CSS).
The complete schedule for An Event Apart Seattle 2010—including A Day Apart with Jeremy Keith and Dan Cederholm—is now available online for your listening and dancing pleasure.
Photo: Warren Parsons.
Filed under: An Event Apart, Announcements, Appearances, CSS, HTML5, Happy Cog™, Web Design, Web Standards, webtype
A Feed Apart
Live from San Francisco, it’s An Event Apart, for people who make websites. If you can’t join us here today and tomorrow, enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.
Also:
- An Event Apart San Francisco Flickr pool, featuring the photography of Kris Krug plus the attendees of AEA.
- An Event Apart Caption Contest
- They’re Letting Designers Code Now? — ZDNet live-blogs Dave Shea’s An Event Apart presentation
- Seducing Your Users With Web Design — ZDNet live-blogs Andy Budd’s An Event Apart presentation
- Upcoming listing, AEA San Francisco
Composed at The Palace Hotel. Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=3208.
Filed under: An Event Apart, CSS, Community, Design, Happy Cog™, San Francisco, Standards, State of the Web, The Profession, UX, User Experience, Web Design, Web Standards, conferences, industry
Chicago Deep Dish
For those who couldn’t be there, and for those who were there and seek to savor the memories, here is An Event Apart Chicago, all wrapped up in a pretty bow:
- AEA Chicago – official photo set
- By John Morrison, subism studios llc. See also (and contribute to) An Event Apart Chicago 2009 Pool, a user group on Flickr.
- A Feed Apart Chicago
- Live tweeting from the show, captured forever and still being updated. Includes complete blow-by-blow from Whitney Hess.
- Luke W’s Notes on the Show
- Smart note-taking by Luke Wroblewski, design lead for Yahoo!, frequent AEA speaker, and author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008):
- Jeffrey Zeldman: A Site Redesign
- Jason Santa Maria: Thinking Small
- Kristina Halvorson: Content First
- Dan Brown: Concept Models -A Tool for Planning Websites
- Whitney Hess: DIY UX -Give Your Users an Upgrade
- Andy Clarke: Walls Come Tumbling Down
- Eric Meyer: JavaScript Will Save Us All (not captured)
- Aaron Gustafson: Using CSS3 Today with eCSStender (not captured)
- Simon Willison: Building Things Fast
- Luke Wroblewski: Web Form Design in Action (download slides)
- Dan Rubin: Designing Virtual Realism
- Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enrichment With CSS3 (not captured)
- Three years of An Event Apart Presentations
Note: Comment posting here is a bit wonky at the moment. We are investigating the cause. Normal commenting has been restored. Thank you, Noel Jackson.
Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=2695
Filed under: A List Apart, An Event Apart, Appearances, Authoring, Browsers, CSS, Career, Chicago, Code, Community, Compatibility, DOM, Design, Education, Fonts, Formats, HTML, HTML5, Happy Cog™, Information architecture, Jason Santa Maria, Markup, Real type on the web, Scripting, Search, Standards, State of the Web, architecture, art direction, bugs, cities, conferences, content, content strategy, creativity, development, downloads, editorial, engagement, eric meyer, events, flickr, glamorous, industry, javascript, photography, social networking, speaking, spec
The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a social media network, creative writing project, interactive game, and book series combined:
The Amanda Project is the story of Amanda Valentino, told through an interactive website and book series for readers aged 13 & up. On the website, readers are invited to become a part of the story as they help the main characters search for Amanda.
The writing-focused social media network is designed and written as if by characters from the Amanda novels, and encourages readers to enter the novel’s world by joining the search for Amanda, following clues and reading passages that exist only online, and ultimately helping to shape the course of the Amanda narrative across eight novels. (The first Amanda novel—Invisible I, written by Melissa Kantor—comes out 22 September.)
The site developed over a year of intense creative collaboration between Happy Cog and Fourth Story Media, a book publisher and new media company spearheaded by publishing whiz Lisa Holton. Prior to starting Fourth Story, Lisa was was President, Scholastic Trade Publishing and Book Fairs; managed the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; and oversaw development of The 39 Clues. Before that she spent nearly a decade developing numerous bestselling, franchise-launching series at Disney.
Happy Cog’s New York office developed this project. The team:
- Aaron Gustafson, front-end development (blog, articles, Twitter)
- Liz, Danzico, user experience (blog, MFA program, Twitter)
- Matthew Goldenberg, project management
- Whitney Hess, user experience (blog, Twitter)
- Erin Kissane, content strategy (articles, blog, Twitter)
- Kelly McCarthy, project manager
- Jason Santa Maria, design (website, Twitter)
- Jeffrey Zeldman, creative director
Equally vital to the project’s success were Fourth Story’s leaders and partners, including:
- Lorraine Shanley, Principal Advisor
- Ariel Aberg-Riger (website, Twitter), Creative Development & Marketing Manager
- JillEllyn Riley, Editorial Director
- Dale Robbins, Creative Director
- David Stack, Director, Digital Partnerships
- Melissa Kantor, Writer
- Peter Silsbee, Writer
- Polly Kanevsky, Art Director
- Sam Gerstenzang, Technology Consultant
Today’s launch is not the end of our relationship with Fourth Story Media. The Amanda Project will continue to evolve, and Happy Cog will remain an active partner in its direction and growth. We thank our brilliant collaborators and congratulate them on today’s milestone.
Read more
- Blissbat.net: The Amanda Project Wants You
Tags: amanda, amandaproject, theamandaproject, TAP, happycog, design, webdesign, contentstrategy, userexperience, publishing, books, aarongustafson, lizdanzico, erinkissane, whitneyhess, mattgoldenberg, kellymccarthy, jasonsantamaria, jeffreyzeldman, lisaholton, dalerobbins, davidstack, JillEllynRiley, ArielAberg-Riger
Filed under: Applications, Code, Community, Design, Happy Cog™, Publications, Publishing, Web Design, Websites, architecture, art direction, books, business, client services, content, creativity, development, editorial, launches, links, people, social networking, software
Editorial Intern Wanted
Update: The position is now closed. Thanks to all who applied.
We’re looking for one good intern. If you love web design, writing, and publishing, this is the gig for you. You’ll work with Aaron Gustafson, Erin Kissane, Ethan Marcotte, and Jeffrey Zeldman on the new edition of the industry-changing Designing With Web Standards, and possibly another great publishing project as well.
NYC area location is ideal, but not required—what matters most is your commitment and professionalism. Must be willing to work with Microsoft Word, have access to one of the latest versions of it, and be a Word styles ninja. We’re looking for 6–8 hours per week through September or mid-October. The right person will see this as an opportunity to experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch, and to learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.
Apply by e-mail to internquest at happycog dot com. Send a short note selling us on you. All queries will be handled with discretion.
Tags: jobs, internerships, intern, wanted, webstandards, designingwithwebstandards, DWWS3e, 3rdEdition, HappyCog, ErinKissane, AaronGustafson, EthanMarcotte, zeldman, JeffreyZeldman, employment
Filed under: Education, ForHire, Freelance, Happy Cog™, Internship, Working, Zeldman, business, content, editorial, jobs, work, writing
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