Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have … | Continue reading
Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have … | Continue reading
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time … Resistance makes side projects hard The post Resistance makes side projects hard appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction … | Continue reading
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time … Resistance makes side projects hard The post Resistance makes side projects hard appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction … | Continue reading
For more than two decades, patients of an OB/GYN named Robert Hadden warned Columbia University that he was sexually inappropriate and abusive. One … How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years The post How Columbia Ignored W … | Continue reading
For more than two decades, patients of an OB/GYN named Robert Hadden warned Columbia University that he was sexually inappropriate and abusive. One … How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years The post How Columbia Ignored W … | Continue reading
“The user is never wrong” means, when a user snags on a part of your UX that doesn’t work for her, she’s not making a mistake, she’s doing you a favor. To benefit from this favor, you must pay vigilant attention, prioritize the discovery, dig deeply enough to understand the probl … | Continue reading
“The user is never wrong” means, when a user snags on a part of your UX that doesn’t work for her, she’s not making a mistake, she’s doing you a favor. To benefit from this favor, you must pay vigilant attention, prioritize the discovery, dig deeply enough to understand the probl … | Continue reading
My daughter Ava has written a new essay about autism, trauma, and the mysteries of socialization. The post Through Your Tears & Sorrow appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
My daughter Ava has written a new essay about autism, trauma, and the mysteries of socialization. The post Through Your Tears & Sorrow appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
I used to tell a joke I made up. An American goes to the Vatican on Easter Sunday, joining a huge crowd of worshippers who gaze up in awe at a raised platform. On the platform stands the Pope. Beside him is Liz Danzico. The American turns to a nearby man and asks, “Excuse me. Who … | Continue reading
I used to tell a joke I made up. An American goes to the Vatican on Easter Sunday, joining a huge crowd of worshippers who gaze up in awe at a raised platform. On the platform stands the Pope. Beside him is Liz Danzico. The American turns to a nearby man and asks, “Excuse me. Who … | Continue reading
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 … | Continue reading
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 … | Continue reading
When I joined a tech company after working for myself for 20 years, the corporate world seemed to have changed. My old jobs had existed in environments so laddish and rowdy that even I felt uncomfortable in them. So I got out. For 20 years, I ran my own businesses differently, pr … | Continue reading
When I joined a tech company after working for myself for 20 years, the corporate world had changed in many ways. One, in particular, struck me. My old jobs had existed in environments so laddish and rowdy that even I, as a man, had felt uncomfortable in them. So I’d gotten out. … | Continue reading
When he was eight years old, my dad taught himself to take apart watches and put them back together. He supported his mother by doing watch repairs at that age out of her little jewelry stand, and a few years later by delivering clothes for a Chinese laundry. As a laundry deliver … | Continue reading
When he was eight years old, my dad taught himself to take apart watches and put them back together. He supported his mother by doing watch repairs at that age out of her little jewelry stand, and a few years later by delivering clothes for a Chinese laundry. As a laundry deliver … | Continue reading
We laid my brother Pete to rest today. They brought him out in a bespoke coffin his wife Cheryl designed. It had a red top, and its white sides were covered in Pete’s quirky figure drawings. He’d have loved it. Several of us had written about Pete, and the officiant read our stat … | Continue reading
We laid my brother Pete to rest today. They brought him out in a bespoke coffin his wife Cheryl designed. It had a red top, and its white sides were covered in Pete’s quirky figure drawings. He’d have loved it. Several of us had written about Pete, and the officiant read our stat … | Continue reading
As the lines between our physical and digital surroundings continue to blur, it’s more important than ever to design usable and accessible content for our ever-expanding array of contexts. In 2021, A Book Apart and I were delighted to bring you Preston So’s Voice Content and Usab … | Continue reading
As the lines between our physical and digital surroundings continue to blur, it’s more important than ever to design usable and accessible content for our ever-expanding array of contexts. In 2021, A Book Apart and I were delighted to bring you Preston So’s Voice Content and Usab … | Continue reading
When my mother was pregnant with my younger brother Pete, my father took her to see West Side Story in New York. My mom said every time the orchestra played, Pete kicked in her womb, keeping perfect time. Some people are born to play the drums. Pete played before he was born. He … | Continue reading
When my mother was pregnant with my younger brother Pete, my father took her to see West Side Story in New York. My mom said every time the orchestra played, Pete kicked in her womb, keeping perfect time. Some people are born to play the drums. Pete played before he was born. He … | Continue reading
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have done over the years. It wasn’t about the Twitter Blue pro features, to be honest … | Continue reading
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have done over the years. It wasn’t about the Twitter Blue pro features, to be honest … | Continue reading
The world is losing one of the greatest musicians, rhythmic theorists, and just lovely and decent human beings ever to exist. The post About Pete appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
The world is losing one of the greatest musicians, rhythmic theorists, and just lovely and decent human beings ever to exist. The post About Pete appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
I love the smell of my neighbor’s weed in the morning. And afternoon. And evening. Seven days a week, God bless him. A grocery delivery guy dropping food at my apartment Thursday morning thought it was my weed and complimented me on the quality. Twenty-nine-and-a-half years sober … | Continue reading
My longtime friend and former collaborative partner Craig Hockenberry bids a dignified adieu to Twitterific, Twitter, and his mom … and calls for a standards-based universal timeline. — The Shit Show The post “A $44 billion version of MySpace.” appeared first on Zeldman on Web an … | Continue reading
First thing after her breakfast, Snow White climbed into a small, half-filled paper and cardboard recycling box. The post A Cat Tale appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
One of these worlds is gone, and to the other, we will never return. The post A Tale of Two Pools appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual. In my youth, as I struggled with drugs, alcoholism, depression, and underemployment, it never crossed my mind that I was neurodivergent—not that the t … | Continue reading
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. The post He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
Whether or not it was the most expensive or most competitive college in the land (it wasn’t), it was a place where they’d encounter other smart kids from different backgrounds and discover Truffaut and Bergman and stay up all night enthralled by great ideas or ridiculing them, cr … | Continue reading
Whether or not it was the most expensive or most competitive college in the land (it wasn’t), it was a place where they’d encounter other smart kids from different backgrounds and discover Truffaut and Bergman and stay up all night enthralled by great ideas or ridiculing them, cr … | Continue reading
The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox. The post Walking Through Fear appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox. | Continue reading
Back when I was in advertising, one of my team’s clients was a well-known Irish Airline. They could only afford an 1/8th-page ad in the travel section of the paper. But my partners and I didn’t think creativity was dependent on budget. | Continue reading
Back when I was in advertising, one of my team’s clients was a well-known Irish Airline. They could only afford an 1/8th-page ad in the travel section of the paper. But my partners and I didn’t think creativity was dependent on budget. We were determined to deliver great ads for … | Continue reading
In 1999, although still in his early 20s, Daniel V. Licht was already an accomplished art director and digital designer. Today he’s a fantastic comic illustrator, artist, and creative director. Check his recent work. | Continue reading
In 1999, I had the good fortune to work alongside Dan Licht at an NYC digital startup called SenseNet, RIP. Back then, although still in his early 20s, Dan was already an accomplished art director and digital designer. Today he’s a fantastic comics illustrator, artist, and creati … | Continue reading
I was a teenage telemarketer. Reading from a script, I attempted to raise money for St. Jude’s Hospital for Leukemia-Stricken Children. I was fired after three days for departing from the script. We were supposed to hard-sell, no matter what the person on the other end of the li … | Continue reading
I was a teenage telemarketer. Reading from a script, I attempted to raise money for St. Jude’s Hospital for Leukemia-Stricken Children. I was fired after three days for departing from the script. We were supposed to hard-sell, no matter what the person on the other end of the li … | Continue reading
Not only are we enabling folks to express themselves uniquely on the web, unlike the cookie cutter looks that all the social sites try to put you into. We’re doing it in a way which is standards-based, interoperable, based on open source, and increases the amount of freedom on th … | Continue reading
Not only are we enabling folks to express themselves uniquely on the web, unlike the cookie cutter looks that all the social sites try to put you into. We’re doing it in a way which is standards-based, interoperable, based on open source, and increases the amount of freedom on th … | Continue reading
“[We are] like a school bus teetering on the guardrail of a bridge over a roaring river. The bus driver is trying to coax the children to move calmly and carefully to an exit door in the portion of the bus that is still on the bridge, but some of the children are running and […] | Continue reading
“[We are] like a school bus teetering on the guardrail of a bridge over a roaring river. The bus driver is trying to coax the children to move calmly and carefully to an exit door in the portion of the bus that is still on the bridge, but some of the children are running and […] … | Continue reading