Flowers in your hair
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its San Francisco 2008 schedule. Join us August 18–19, 2008 at the Palace Hotel for two jam-packed 9.5-hour-long days of...
View ArticleDear New York Times Mobile
Dear New York Times Mobile Edition: While we applaud your use of typographically correct punctuation—a cause we ourselves have long advocated—we’d appreciate it even more if you would do it like...
View ArticleALA 274: The emerging content strategist
In Issue No. 274 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: a website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver. Learn why content matters and how to do it right....
View ArticleVisualizing Web Currents
Information Architects Japan present Web Trend Map 4 – Final Beta, a map of leading currents of web thought and commerce. A List Apart is in, of course, along with Amazon, Apple, Wikipedia, Twitter,...
View ArticleMore Zeldman Fun From BigThink
Bigthink.com/jeffreyzeldman is your BigThink channel for all your BigThink Jeffrey Zeldman needs. Now playing at that URL are three Zeldman interview clips for your pleasure: “Jeff” Zeldman dissects...
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Why Standards Fail
Back in 2000, CSS co-creator Bert Bos set out to explain the W3C’s design principles—“to make explicit what the developers in the various W3C working groups mean when they invoke words like...
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Shorten this
In April of 2009, in a post every web designer, publisher, or business person should read, Joshua Schachter told how URL shortening services like TinyURL and Bit.ly came to be, and why the latest ones...
View ArticleGender Bias and Reputation on Stack Overflow
This paper concludes that women are not disadvantaged by their own actions; they are penalised by a scoring structure which conceals sexism and disregarded by a masculine-majority userbase. Far from...
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