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July 11, 2013
Lea Verou on Big Web Show
LEA VEROU and I discuss the creative process behind her “CSS Secrets” series and the book of the same name she is writing for O’Reilly; loving JavaScript and math; her professional path, beginning with coding Visual Basic at age twelve; using CSS to lay out a print book about CSS; creating Open Source projects like Dabblet, Prism, and CSS3 Test; the case for progressive enhancement; earning a living doing your own thing; and leaving her job at the W3C (announced today).
All that and much more is now available for your listening pleasure in today’s Big Web Show Episode No. 94.
More Lea Goodness
Lea Verou’s website
Prism.js
Dabblet
CSS3 Test
Articles by Lea
Lea’s Github
Lea’s Dribbble
@leaverou
Lea on Facebook
Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature CSS3 A Kitten Dies
Leaving The W3C
ALA Summer Reading
AS PUBLISHER of A List Apart for people who make websites, I’m delighted to present our second annual ALA Summer Reading Issue—a deep pool of editor’s picks from the recent archives of A List Apart, sprinkled with some of our favorite outside links.
If you’re designing, developing, strategizing, or creating content for today’s multi-device web, these are the articles you need to read.
Same as last year, this issue is also available as a Readlist, suitable for beach reading on Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Readmill, or other ebook reader. So what are you waiting for? Dive in!
Illustration by Kevin Cornell for A List Apart
June 25, 2013
Think Outside The Silo
IN TODAY’S A List Apart for people who make websites, we are pleased to present…
Designing for Services Beyond the Screen
by ANDY POLAINE
You redesign the website for an airline, but who is designing the check-in machines, the CRM systems used by call center staff, the print materials, or the policies the cabin crew must adhere to? Like it or not, these channels are part of the overall user experience. Your website or mobile app might be great on its own, but customers experience services in totality, and base their judgments on how well everything works together. Learn to design beyond the screen. By creating visual and tangible artifacts that can be experienced and tested, you can build a bridge between business and design.
Don’t Poke the Bear: Creating Content for Sensitive Situations
by KATE KIEFER LEE
Delivering bad news is hard, but it’s part of life and business. We notify customers when we’re out of a product they want to buy, and we send warnings when people violate our companies’ terms of service. God forbid we have to send a system alert because our database was hacked, affecting every one of our users. But these things happen to the best of us. Can you be the bearer of bad news in a way that respects your customers? Learn how to create empathetic content for tricky situations, and shape your internal culture to foster human values of support, respect, and empathy.
Illustration: Kevin Cornell
June 23, 2013
Dog Day Morning
THE DOGS leave today.
While my ex has been away this month, I’ve watched her two small dogs. And so have my two cats—especially the black alpha. Add an active eight year old girl to that menagerie and you have 34 busy but blissful days.
That time ends now.
This morning my daughter and the dogs shuffle off to her mother’s apartment, where her grandparents will take loving care of them all.
I mark the occasion by packing my bag for Boston and clearing away a last wet wee wee pad.
Funny the things you can get sentimental over.
Bootstrap creator Mark Otto: Big Web Show 93
MARK OTTO, creator of Bootstrap, is my guest on Episode No. 93 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”).
Currently designing things at GitHub and previously at Twitter and ZURB, Mark may be found on the web at markdotto.com and on Twitter as @mdo.
URLS
http://markdotto.com
https://twitter.com/mdo
https://twitter.com/TwBootstrap
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
https://github.com/mdo
June 17, 2013
Response to an anonymous note left on my apartment door, complaining of noise.
Dear Neighbors:
While my ex-wife is in treatment for a serious illness, I am watching her two small young dogs.
They get along well with my two cats and soothe my young daughter during her mother’s absence.
I am sorry that the dogs sometimes bark when I am at work. They are probably somewhat afraid.
The dogs will only be with us for a few more days. God willing, my ex will complete her in-patient treatment early next week.
I apologize for the noise during the day, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Your Neighbor,
Jeffrey
May 30, 2013
Coastermatic’s Tash Wong and Tom Harman on The Big Web Show Episode No. 92
AMERICAN DESIGNER Tash Wong and British designer Tom Harman are the co-founders of Coastermatic and my guests in Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”).
Tash and Tom recently resided in Brooklyn, NY and completed their MFAs in Interaction Design at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where I was one of their admiring teachers; they are now bound for Hawaii, where they will expand their web-based product empire. Coastermatic, their first joint product, converts your Instagram photos into stone coasters, and was conceived during their time at SVA. (More in the August 2, 2012 issue of Dwell.)
In a fast-paced hour-long podcast, we discuss design, product, and business strategy; finding the right manufacturing and fulfillment partners; the division of labor in a small startup; and other juicy UX and entrepreneurial topics.
Enjoy Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show.
May 23, 2013
10 Commandments of Web Design (Notes by Luke Wroblewski on a Talk by Yours Truly)
“ITERATION isn’t just for visual design. It also helps you uncover insights. A List Apart found people are often commenting and re-tweeting articles before they read them. They learned this by iterating on where the share and comment links exist on the page.”—LukeW | An Event Apart: 10 Commandments of Web Design.
May 19, 2013
May 10, 2013
Ryan and Tina Essmaker of The Great Discontent
RYAN AND TINA Essmaker are my guests for Episode No. 91 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”).
Ryan is a designer and the co-founder of The Great Discontent. By day he works with Crush + Lovely as head of products, and manages No Little Plans, The Great Discontent’s parent company.
Tina is an illustrator, essayist, photographer, blogger, and the co-founder of The Great Discontent, an online journal of interviews focusing on creativity and risk, and No Little Plans, The Great Discontent’s parent company. By day she manages community for Crush + Lovely and works as a freelance writer.
This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by A List Apart, the design magazine for people who make websites.
Enjoy Episode No. 91 of The Big Web Show.
