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Awesome Internet Design

Attending the SXSW Interactive festival in 2011? Be sure to see Jeffrey Zeldman's Awesome Internet Design Panel.

He brought us The Web Standards Project, A List Apart, Designing With Web Standards, A Book Apart, and so much more. Now legendary blogger, designer, and creative gadfly Jeffrey Zeldman brings us a SXSW panel.

You, the people, have spoken. We will not let you down.

Scientific American redesign

Happy Cog's redesign of the Scientific American website, featuring wicked web fonts Prelude and Brunel, is alive!

UX design: Whitney Hess
Graphic design: Mike Pick
Front-end code: Tim Murtaugh

Roger Black Studio did the print redesign (launch date TBA); Font Bureau created the web fonts.

Episode 20: Designing Web Applications, Managing Teams, and Creating Readability

Rich Ziade, creator of the popular reading tool Readability, guests on Thursday's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped before a live internet audience.

Richard Ziade is the founding partner of Arc90, a consulting firm, product shop, and idea incubator based in New York City. Arc90 has a reputation as one of the best web application design shops around. Alas, nearly all their web application design work is for private corporate clients. Thus most of u...

ALA 314: Web Forms Magic

Issue No. 314 of A List Apart For People Who Make Websites is all about your form.

Ryan Seddon shows how to reduce errors and guide users to success via new methods made possible by HTML5 and CSS3. Harness HTML5 form input types and attributes to set validation constraints to check user input, and use CSS3's new UI pseudo-classes to style validation states, making form completion quick and effortless.

And Luke Wroblewski explains how accordion forms increase completion rates

An Event Apart, The Musical

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Thanks for sharing

i'm UNfollowing you on twitter — here's why

LOVE your stuff!!!

however, your twitter posts have taken over my twitter stream: a good 30% of my stream is YOUR stuff. so i've decided to UNfollow you, sorry.

thought: you could write a script of some sort to set up a Zeldman LITE twitter account, with (only) 1-4 posts/day. or you could post em yourself, manually.

or not.

i'll keep reading your site, regardless. thanks for reading.

It's a wonderful life

When you write "This post has earned one meager response," meager describes the quality of the response received when, I think, your intent is to describe quantity of responses received. Recast?

Thomas Osborne

Five Billionth Flickr photo

Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute. Here is the five billionth.

Of Thee I Sing

According to Lanyrd and this Amtrak ticket, I'm on my way to Washington, DC, home of the 9:30 Club, Embassy Row, museums and monuments, and the site of An Event Apart DC—three days of design, code, and content for people who make websites.

I love DC the way someone who used to live there loves a town. In DC I fell in love, played in some little-known but great bands, wrote for City Paper and The Washington Post, and started an advertising career that would take me to New York ...

The Self-Published Author

I didn't have much of a marketing plan other than e-mailing my friends and writing to people who had book-review sites and asking them if they would like a free copy. But the word got around. Soon I was deluged with e-mail, and within days I started getting checks in the mail. Many dozens of 'em. Mostly from the United States, but also from Sweden, Australia, Singapore …

Using the internet to reach an audience and distribute work traditional publishers reject. Novelist...