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Design kickoff meetings are like first dates that prepare you for an exciting relationship with a person who doesn’t exist.
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Two Kinds of People
THERE ARE two kinds of people: those who hold the door open for others, and those who walk through without thanking me. #
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Usability Testing
USABILITY TESTING doesn’t reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking. #
THERE IS ALWAYS more to the story than what we are told. I am not omniscient. It is better to light a single candle than to join a lynch mob. Other people’s behavior is not my business. Truth is hard, epigrams are easy. Anything worth saying takes more than 140 characters. Blogging’s not dead. F____ the 140 character morality police.
FROM MY TWITTER STREAM of late:
- The Heads-Up Grid is an overlay grid for use during in-browser website development, built with HTML + CSS + JavaScript. http://t.co/EcgTkcD #
- Golden Grid System – a folding grid for responsive design. h/t @malarkey http://j.mp/mZnVJi #
- Nice responsive redesign! Well done, Meltmedia! http://t.co/tQQGW8J #
- RT @jasonsantamaria: I’m writing a book about typography for @abookapart! Lucky number 7: http://t.co/7CkSz0l #
- I love how everything Apple does, even slipping on a banana peel, is perceived as strategic. #
- Paul draws a napkin map of London. http://t.co/p4co2ZM #
Okay, that last one isn’t a web design link and the Apple comment could go either way, but that’s how I roll. Follow me on Twitter for more snarkeractive funucation!
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Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive
HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists on Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel at SXSW Interactive 2011? You do? Bravo! Post them on Twitter using hashtag #jzsxsw and we’ll answer the good ones at 5:00 PM in Big Ballroom D of the Austin Convention Center.
Topics include platform wars (native, web, and hybrid, or welcome back to 1999), web fonts, mobile is the new widescreen, how to succeed in the new publishing, responsive design, HTML5, Flash, East Coast West Coast beefs, whatever happened to…?, and many, many more.
Comments are off here so you’ll post your questions on Twitter.
The panel will be live sketched and live recorded for later partial or full broadcast via sxsw.com. In-person attendees, arrive early for best seats. Don’t eat the brown acid.
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The Twitters of Southby
20110312-NodeXL-Twitter-sxsw by Marc Smith.
From: www.connectedaction.net.
Connections among the Twitter users who recently mentioned sxsw when queried on March 12, 2011 scaled by numbers of followers.
A larger version (zoom for details) is available here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/5521097041/sizes/o/.
“Goodreads.com is social cataloging service for books. In this post you will see how they’ve used the friend spam dark pattern, but how they’ve also failed to make it go viral. This makes it interesting to carry out a post mortem and work out what they should have done.”
—Anatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern
(Hat tip: Andrew Travers.)
ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this?
Do not tell me I
Am source of your browser woes.
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Write a web standards haiku (like that one), and post it on Twitter with the hashtag #bbd4 between now and November 30th—which happens to be the fourth international Blue Beanie Day in support of Web Standards.
Winning haikus will receive free books from Peachpit/New Riders (“Voices That Matter”) and A Book Apart.
Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition and I will determine the winners.
Enter as many haikus as you like. Sorry, only one winning entry per person. Now get out there and haiku your heart out!
See you on Blue Beanie Day.
P.S. An ePub version of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition is coming soon to a virtual bookstore near you. Watch this space.
