Tricking people into seeing unexpected content and converting some of them into customers is a tale as old as the web. It was the perfect model for the takeover.
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Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
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I’ve started a Bluesky list featuring some of the brilliant writers, designers, coders, editors, and others who’ve contributed to A List Apart “for people who make websites.”
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If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites.
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Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!
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Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding […]
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Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’t offset by art or photography. Where text is the point. With well considered flexible typesetting, modular scaling, and readable measures across a full range of proportions and […]
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You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
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