The King of Web Standards
In BusinessWeek, senior writer for Innovation & Design Jessie Scanlon has just published “Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards.” By any standards (heh heh), it is an accurate and well researched...
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Don’t sleep here
The area above Madison Square Park in Manhattan is in a condo- building frenzy. Of course all of Manhattan (and Brooklyn and Queens) is in a condo-building frenzy. But above Madison Square Park there...
View ArticleSelf-publishing is the new blogging
Everyone a writer, everyone a publisher, everyone a citizen journalist. Everything that could be digital would be. Content wanted to be free. Then we had to get paid. But animated smack-the-monkey ads...
View Article.net interview
There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS.” The .net Zeldman interview is available for your downloading pleasure (4.2 MB PDF). For more of the best in web design...
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“Digital Design Forum a Real Hit”
DIBI Conference in the press via Gavin Elliot on Flickr. And a good time was had.
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Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point – Mat Marquis in ALA
IN A SPECIAL ISSUE of A List Apart for people who make websites: Responsible responsive design demands responsive images — images whose dimensions and file size suit the viewport and bandwidth of the...
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To Save Real News
IN a world where newspapers are dying and half the public believes fake news, what online news experiences need is design that is branded, authoritative, and above all, readable: Branded, because we...
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Streaming suicide and other design decisions
“A 12-year-old girl live-streamed her suicide. It took two weeks for Facebook to take the video down.” So reads the headline of a January 15 news story in The Washington Post. Saying that she’d been...
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Digital newspaper design challenge: a report from Poynter, part 1
CAN design create a better user experience that engages readers and drives revenue? Can it fight fake news and help save real journalism at a time when news organizations large and small are...
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Authoritative, Readable, Branded: Report from Poynter Design Challenge, Part 2
THIS year’s Poynter Digital Newspaper Design Challenge was an attempt by several designers and pundits, working and thinking in parallel, to save real news via design. In Part 1 of my report from...
View ArticleGet it right.
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about...
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