Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 61

Public Art in the People's Republic of New York

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Shop Web Standards

GET YOUR STANDARDS ON! John Rainsford, working with your humble narrator, has crafted a sweet collection of limited edition products, designed to let you show your love and support for web standards.

What are you waiting for? Shop Web Standards now.

And we thank you.

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Foursquare accept friend requests: worst interface in the world

Foursquare accept friends: worst interface in the world from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.

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Big Web Show No. 59: Mike Monteiro on art & design

MULE DESIGN DIRECTOR, conceptual artist, author, and Twitter provocateur Mike Monteiro and I discuss design vs. fine art, using constraints to produce artwork, his new book, working with (not necessarily pleasing) clients, whether great comedians work blue, and much more in Episode 59 of THE BIG WEB SHOW.

5by5 | The Big Web Show #59: Mike Monteiro.







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Everything I know about interaction design, I learned from my cats.

CATS CAN'T TALK, but it turns out they are great interaction designers.

I've been laid up with a hernia and bronchitis and I've let a few chores go. Such as prompt daily cleaning of the litter box shared by my cats, Snow White and Giovanni.

This morning they found a way to catapult the litter box rake right into the box. Handle first, mind you — leaving the part I touch three inches deep in the very filth I'd neglected to clean. Punishment as well as instruction.

I can play scales; my cats cannot. I can spend time with Gandalf and Oliver Twist; my cats cannot. On those scales I am the superior being.

But I would give ten years and a pinky to create interfaces that are half as clear as the one my cats designed for me this morning.







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Say No to SOPA!

A LIST APART strongly opposes USHR 3261 AKA the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation that is technically impossible to enforce, cripplingly burdensome to support, and would, without hyperbole, destroy the internet as we know it.

SOPA approaches the problem of content piracy with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole web in gasoline. Learn why SOPA must not pass, and find out what you can do to help stop it.

A List Apart: Articles: Say No to SOPA.

Illustration by Kevin Cornell for A List Apart Magazine.







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Getting Started with Sass – A List Apart

CSS' simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so welcome as we first started to move away from font tags and table-based layouts—has become a liability.

Fortunately, a few years ago developers Hampton Catlin and Nathan Weizenbaum created a new style sheet syntax with features to help make our increasingly complex CSS easier to write and manage—and then used a preprocessor to translate the new smart syntax into the old, dumb CSS that browsers understand.

Learn how Sass ("syntactically awesome style sheets") can help simplify the creation, updating, and maintenance of powerful sites and apps.

A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Sass.

Illustration: Kevin Cornell







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A Book Apart holiday sale: 30% off entire collection

THE FIRST SIX essential new classics from A Book Apart — brilliant, brief books by Jeremy Keith, Dan Cederholm, Erin Kissane, Ethan Marcotte, Aarron Walter, and Luke Wroblewski — make the perfect gift for the web geek in your life. During our holiday sale, buy all six books and save 30%!

A Book Apart Holiday Bundle







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Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards – #bbd11

GET YOUR BEANIE ON! The Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards takes place around the globe on 30 November 2011. How can you participate? Glad you asked! Details are now available on the spankin' new official Blue Beanie Day web page.

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Veen: Building Typekit on relationships

TYPEKIT FOUNDER JEFFREY VEEN has always shared knowledge freely, whether writing great books about web design and user experience, or (in this case) happily sharing a key secret of his business' success: raising money isn't about raising money – it's about people.

Building Typekit on relationships by Jeffrey Veen.







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