Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journalism, advertising, and music composition and production, I poured myself into web design in early 1995, understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and enjoyed […]
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Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
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A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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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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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 W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives that may be kinder and more reliable.
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Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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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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Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design. —The State of […]
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