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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Publisher, A LIST APART & A BOOK APART. Employer Brand @ Automattic.
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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
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3rd week in bed with Coronavirus. Diagnosed last week. 3rd day in a row without fever. Knock wood. But still sick, still sleeping 18+ hours/day. Still same tickle in lungs. Getting better. But long way to go. Cats help.
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Tap, tap. Is this thing on?
I’ve signed on as Creative Director of a Special Projects team at
@automattic
that helps showcase
@WordPress
at its best.
I’ll share first impressions soon. Currently I'm too busy learning.
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The internet company as an old, ruined, brick-and-mortar storefront. An art project by Andrei Lacatusu. Hat tip:
@PaulMMCooper
. c/o
@Behance
.
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Q. How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Does it have to be a lightbulb?
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@Death_Bow
@lucykemnitzer
Your folks were unusual, then. Most of us moved out at 18 and made our way, struggling to pay rent, and taking pride in our cinder block shelving and found art.
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@isadwatson
No wonder people call him a business genius. Just not paying your bills! Why didn’t I think of that?
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The longer I work in design, the more confident I become in my certainty that I know almost nothing.
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“Web making has lately become something of a dick measuring competition.”
Our addiction to complicated toolchains and overbuilt frameworks is out of control. Read “The Cult of the Complex” by Jeffrey
@Zeldman
(that’s me!) in today’s
@alistapart
.
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30 years ago my life changed forever, and I didn’t even know it at the time. The web is 30 years old today. Happy birthday, WWW.
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When you are kind, you can help some people and it is good. And also when you are kind, some people will take ruthless advantage of you. But I don’t know how to stop being kind. And I think, in spite of everything, it is the better choice.
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“Hi Jeffrey, I noticed your skills, and was hoping you’d be interested in this Junior Front End Web Developer position in New York City, NY”
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The title of this
@jefftiedrich
piece does not prepare you for the gut punch it delivers. The tale of a 16yo Bronx boy who spent 3 years in Rikers after being accused of stealing a backpack says everything you need to know today.
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Sigh. So much beautiful work, tossed aside. Read the story and take a moment to honor the creators.
Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three.
@toddwaterbury
,
@angyche
and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
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All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual.
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“Ohio Republicans want you to bury or cremate your zygote, but your grandma, well, she’s on her own.”
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Free, open-source, web-based design tool generates beautiful, accessible color combinations.
Hat tip:
@nyiriland
#a11y
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♛ studio.zeldman is open for business! Here is the story behind the launch.
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I’m definitely worse this week, and it sucks. Folks, if you’re stuck at home but still healthy, be grateful—you’re lucky.
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@joncoopertweets
I was in 3rd grade when JFK got shot. My classmates saw it as a day off school, but I was depressed and solemn. §. I was working a shit job at a phone company when my girlfriend called from NY to say word on the street was that John Lennon had been killed. That crushed me too.
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Terribly sad news. Farewell to a tireless advocate for a kinder, more accessible, more open web. Your pain is over, now you may rest.
#webstandards
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Disabled people aren’t the edge case. Tech people are the edge case. We represent a small portion of the population and we’re in charge of designing and building. Too often we design for people exactly like us.
@feather
#a11y
#InclusiveDesign
#aeasea
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Today my daughter’s 7th grade class was given the MLA style guide as a reference for how to cite works used in research. The example the MLA cited was an article from A List Apart.
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Lists is a gallery of real content to populate your mockups. Produce your best work by making informed decisions.
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Let’s stop drawing a distinction between “designers” and “design thinkers.” Design thinkers *are* designers. Anyone who works to create or improve customer experience is a designer.
You’re welcome.
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#Wordpress
was the first standards-compliant CMS. I hand-coded my blog starting in 1995, and would still be doing it if Wordpress had not come along. Next year, after exhausting a half dozen other platforms,
@AListApart
will come home to Wordpress.
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My writing is unimpaired but my speech has been subtly affected; I struggle for words, commit verbal grammatical errors, etc. The worst part is the hostile impatience of some people when I struggle—as if I’m stupid or not worth the bother.
“Just the flu”?????
Brain damage in 55%.
Which maps to what me & my friends are experiencing. Wear a mask!!
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Free, open-source INTER is a beautifully utilitarian type family crafted & designed for computer screens. Comes in 9 weights, each with italic counterparts—18 styles in all. Also offered as a free Variable Font with animation (!) and infinite variations.
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“HTML is accessible by default. It’s our job not to screw it up.”
@MinaMarkham
on why she begins in markup, creating a page that will work for everyone (even folks whose device does not support CSS or JavaScript).
#a11y
#AEASF
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Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.
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Gmail rolls out a new design that’s both harder to use and uglier. Mystery navigation, invisible borders (the wrong lessons from iOS)—every visual change that slightly impedes usability is here. But, hey, cartoonishly rounded corners! (Welcome back, 2004.)
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Fellow Americans, be sure you are registered to vote.
It's National Voter Registration Day!
Many states are tightening Voter ID laws, and if you or someone you know needs help getting the right legal identification to cast a ballot in your state,
@VoteRiders
can help you get it!
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“He is tougher on the SEAL commander who was responsible for killing Osama bin Laden than on the Saudi despot who was responsible for killing Jamal Khashoggi.”
@MaxBoot
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President Obama’s life was threatened every day he was in office and he never put a fence around the White House.
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My dad is 91. This is his naval discharge card. He enlisted at 17 to fight Nazis. My gratitude to him and all veterans for their courage, service, and sacrifice.
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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. White text on white background. Missing alt text. Spans as paragraphs.”
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Study: The value of genderless pronouns is not in mere political correctness. They can give people new, more inclusive ways of seeing the world.
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So long, frameworks. “CSS Grid *is* the layout framework. Baked right into the browser.”
@jensimmons
, cited by
@chriscoyier
.
#AEACHI
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@joncoopertweets
More recently, part of me died with Bowie and Prince, and I refused to believe that MF DOOM had passed. It’s a prank, an art statement, I told myself for days.
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Don’t tell anybody yet, but
@AListApart
has migrated to
@WordPress
. Tomorrow our producers begin playing with the “new” CMS. April 11 we relaunch. Shhh! Keep it under your <del>blue beanie</del> hat.
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I have 21 years sober today. My sobriety is old enough to drink.
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Over the decades I’ve used computers, my drawing skill has all but vanished—along with my ability to do calligraphy or even write legibly. Which is why I’ve started forcing myself to sketch again every day. Practice is the best form of hope.
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This seems like a nice idea. Google Developers Web Fundamentals.
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Which were your favorites?
Killed by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery.
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“We made our color lightness-to-darkness consistent across color hues, so that every color 0–50 is accessible (4.5:1) on black, and every color 60–100 is accessible (4.5:1) on white.”
Lyft Design: Re-approaching Color
#design
#a11y
℅
@melchoyce
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INTERVIEW TIP: If talking about your work makes you feel like you’re bragging, talk about your customer instead. What was their problem? How did your team solve it? Passion for the customer and appreciation of your team is not bragging! (But it is contagious.)
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Modern Font Stacks!
The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes—just instant renders.
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. Copy and paste your worries away!
h/t
@itsdavemartin
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“Anyone who claims that CSS is just some wild language lacking logical rules has not bothered learning CSS.”
@rachelandrew
#AEAOT
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The four pillars of modern layout:
- Flow & writing mode
- CSS Grid
- Flexbox
- Multicolumn
@JenSimmons
#IntrinsicLayout
#aeasf
Follow the demos at
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@fred_guttenberg
You and all the parents will be in our hearts. Your courage in the face of unfathomable horror inspires so many of us.
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Look, it’s simple:
1. Support your friends’ work.
2. Don’t support only your friends’ work.
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A designer who doesn’t sometimes doubt her own abilities is a fool.
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I’m temporarily immortal. The new Snapchat filter gives you a blue beanie, a beard, a wide sleepy face, and a big red honking schnoz.
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Front-end must be part of the design process, not dragged in after an ill-considered design has already been sold.
@brad_frost
#aeabos
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The first level of design is to make sure you have the right semantic HTML (so your content works as audio, in Reader mode, in screen readers, highly constrained devices, search engines, and more).
@jensimmons
#AEACHI
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@espiekermann
We all make mistakes. We can all be insensitive at times. Admitting a mistake shows humility. Doubling down is what Trump does. Be better.
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Canada unveils largest economic relief package since WW2
Intelligent and humane. Canada’s federal government will spend C$100bn ($77bn, £58bn) to kick-start the country's post-pandemic economy.
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is Try to please everybody.” Herbert Bayard Swope
@lukew
#aeadenver
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Twitter: an online tool that enables bookish adults to simulate the popularity they did not experience in high school. See also: Internet.
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Zeldman weeps. The state of design and front-end in 2019.
Revisiting the rendering tier.
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I came down with COVID-19 in late February, and though I've recovered, I still struggle with debilitating fatigue, headaches, and bouts of verbal mental fog. So do more than half of us survivors. Stay safe.
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Fake news, pioneered on Fox, perfected on alt right blogs, distributed by Facebook, fools enough Americans to grease US slide into fascism.
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Whenever I think, “this is too hard, I can’t do this,” I remember I am a parent. If I can do that job, I can fake my way through anything.
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