Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 100
May 27, 2010
Web Education on Big Web Show
Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts, is today's guest on The Big Web Show.
Join co-host Dan Benjamin, Liz, and me live at 1:00 PM EDT today as we discuss web and interaction design education, user experience design, how to structure a program and teach a class, acquiring and editing content, and much more. Watch the live program at live.5by5.tv. Your call-in and chatroom...
May 26, 2010
Twitter Top 140
"Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it's the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. …"
Where does the data come from?"We analyzed the data in our Web Trend Engine (30gigs), got a sneak peek into the top 100 list from the Max Planck Institute PDF Twitter research team (200KB), we talked to Twitter directly, and we asked our...
May 25, 2010
Remote User Testing
User research doesn't have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb.
A List Apart: Articles: Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing by NATE BOLT
Responsive Web Design
Hot dang! Use fluid grids, flexible images, and CSS media queries to create elegant user experiences that fit any browser or device's viewport. By Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
A List Apart: Responsive Web Design
May 23, 2010
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, and can even arrange meet-ups and make other social connections there.
Must-read: Designer Ali M. Ali talks about the interface design.
Steve Losh did back-end programming.
Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl created the original A Feed Apart and led the redesign effort.
If you can't...
May 22, 2010
Boston Bound
Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs its name in the clouds, and the sky-scraping Prudential Tower adds a whole new meaning to the term, "high finance." Beantown. Cradle of liberty, Athens of America, the walking city, and five-time host to An Event Apart, which may be America's leading web design...
May 21, 2010
Win A Book Apart
Now through May 27, when you use Gowalla on your iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, or iPad to discover and share places with your friends, you might win a copy of Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers.
How it works couldn't be simpler. If you aren't already a player, download Gowalla. Then, when using Gowalla to check into a location, if you find the HTML5 for Web Designers book item, just add it to your collection. On Thursday, May 27, ten random people who picked up...
May 20, 2010
BWS4: Content Strategy
The final cut of The Big Web Show "Episode 4: Content Strategy," recorded in front of a live internet audience earlier today, is now online for your viewing pleasure.
Hosted, as always, by Dan Benjamin and me, this episode features Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and author, Content Strategy for the Web (New Riders, 2010); and Erin Kissane, content strategist, Happy Cog, and author, Incisive.nu. It's 60 minutes of insights to die for! Brainpower like you've never! Don't...
