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June 3, 2010
June 2, 2010
Episode 6: Mobile First
This Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me for the taping of The Big Web Show Episode Six, as we chat with leading interaction designer Luke Wroblewski about designing for the mobile space, and learn why the mobile experience for a web application or site should be designed before the PC version.
Designing for 700 million peopleLuke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product design leader who has designed or contributed to software...
June 1, 2010
Rise Above
M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com.
Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.
May 28, 2010
Choose Death
When I returned from Boston, my little white dog was much sicker. It's the lungs. There's a constant honking gasp, except when he's sleeping. The doctors said this would happen, they just didn't say when. Despite the constant meds and steady love, there comes a time when the animal can't breathe—and nothing medical can be done, other than the merciful horrible.
So today is the day. I feared it on the afternoon I came home and I knew it for sure last night. Where there is life t...
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...
