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Just before noon (Eastern U.S. time) today, An Event Apart Minneapolis sold its last available seat. That’s three events so far in 2010 and three sell-outs. If you were hoping to join us in Minneapolis but hadn’t registered yet, we’re sorry we won’t see you there! You can contact our Event Manager to get put on the waiting list, or you can join us for one of the remaining two shows of the year: Washington DC and San Diego . There are strong reasons to prefer either one. In Washington DC , we’ll have our second-ever A Day Apart , a full day of in-depth learning with Jeremy Keith and Ethan Marcotte taking on the topics of HTML5 and CSS3, respectively… Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart , a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman , Mandy Brown , and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers , by the indomitable Jeremy Keith . If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one. I’ve read it three times and love how approachable it is. You can read more from Jeffrey about how we chose our first title , or from Mandy on how A Book Apart works as a publisher . … Read the rest here

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I hereby declare April to be HTML5 Month …at least for me. I’m about to embark to on a month of markup pedagogy. I’ll be expounding on the language features of HTML5 at various locations across meat- and cyberspace. It all starts on April 7th in Seattle . That’s where I’ll be delivering one half of A Day Apart . … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

I’m a bad conference organizer. Why? Because we opened the An Event Apart 2010 schedule for sales back in, um, flippin’ November , and I never mentioned it here. Cripes, I never even posted when we announced the lineup of cities. I could go through the great big long sob-story list of reasons why 2009 was really tough and blah blah blah, but when you get right down to it, I fell down on my job. Okay… Read the rest here

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While it’s been a fairly quiet summer around these parts, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve been slacking off. Let’s run down the list. New Chalkwork Icons & Search Back in June while sitting around recovering from some minor surgery, I spent a weekend producing a new free icon set for payments and ecommerce called, naturally, Chalkwork Payments . It highlighted a fairly obvious deficiency in the collection, so immediately after I set to work on a much larger commerce set. Creatively named Chalkwork Commerce of course. Due to the growing size of the overall icon family (2500+ now), I decided a better way to find a specific icon was in order. … Read the rest here

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The first day of An Event Apart is wrapping up here in Boston. Dan is delivering his talk Implementing Design: Bulletproof A-Z which I’ve already liveblogged from a previous event so I can give my fingers a bit of rest now. The liveblogging was kind of fun. By keeping myself busy, I was able to stop myself from getting too nervous about my own talk. I’m so glad it’s over and done with now. … Read the rest here

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The wonderful Whitney Hess is speaking about DIY UX at An Event Apart in Boston . We are all user experience designers. Our users are suffering. Let’s help them. Whitney says we can be bumbling DIY hobbyists or we can be professionals. Meet the founders of Iridesco , based in New York. … Read the rest here

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Josh is at An Event Apart in Boston to talk about Designing with Psychology in Mind . He begin’s with Kurt Lewin ’s equation: Behaviour is a function of a person and their environment. That’s quite a modern view that clashed with the prevailing wisdom of the time. Lewin’s equation is applicable to design because although we can’t change the person we can influence behaviour by altering the environment on the web. We create the environment. We create a universe for our users… Read the rest here

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Jason Santa Maria , AKA Stan , is the man. Here’s here at An Event Apart in Boston to talk about Thinking Small . He’s my warm-up man. He begin in the 1980s; Christmas day in the Santa Maria household—Jason gets Castle Greyskull. One Christmas, his parents played a cruel joke on him. Instead of getting him toys, they got him books. … Read the rest here

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Because it takes two people to replace Eric Meyer , Kristina Halvorson has stepped into the breach at An Event Apart in Boston . At last week’s UX London , Dan described her as the patron saint of content strategy. Her talk is called Content First . She begins by listing a bunch of Twitter hashtags and pointing out the excellent A Feed Apart . Kristina started out as a Copy Writer and morphed into being a Web Writer… Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

I’m at An Event Apart in Boston where Jared is kicking things off. He’s pinch hitting for Eric who can’t be here, alas. (Do you like the way I’m casually using baseball references like pinch hitting to ingratiate myself with the local audience?) Jared’s talk is entitled Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon and I’m guessing he’s not talking about the South American river. He begins by talking about milk. Two years ago, you could buy Tuscan whole milk on Amazon . The reviews are hilarious… Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

In just two weeks, I’ll be heading west to Seattle for An Event Apart . The event, as with any AEA show, will undoubtedly rock. It’s also on the brink of being sold out, so act now if you’d like to attend. You can also save an extra $100 off the registration by using the discount code AEACEDE . And that reminds me. If one were looking for the best coffee in Seattle, where would one go? … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

I’m trying to cut back on travel and speaking dates this year, but I’ll be out and about a few times. If you happen to be attending any of these events, be sure to say hello! Not the Same Old Story , SXSW Interactive, March 14, 11:30am I’ll be moderating a panel exploring how people from different backgrounds tackle the problem of design and storytelling online. From the description: If the web provides so many ways to connect with audiences, why are we all stuck telling the same story with our designs? Hear from a panel of storytelling experts on the importance of narrative and art direction online to break away from static and boring experiences. I’m honored to be joined on the panel by some very talented folks: Nicholas Felton, feltron.com Daniel Burka, Creative Director, Digg/Pownce Emily Gordon, Editor-in-Chief, Print Magazine , Emdashes.com Ian Adelman, Design Director, NYMag.com The Influencers , DOT DOT DOT, April 15 The upcoming Interaction Design Masters program at SVA is really building steam, and they’ve been giving back to the community with a free monthly lecture series called DOT DOT DOT. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

The new Gregorian year has brought a striking new Big Z design to An Event Apart , along with the detailed schedule for our first show and the opening of registration for all four shows of the year. Jeffrey has written a bit about the thinking that went into the design already, and I expect more to come. If you want all the juicy details, he’ll be talking about it at AEA, as a glance at the top of the Seattle schedule will tell you. And right after that? An hour of me talking about coding the design he created… Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Badges are often a decidedly unfun and necessary evil of attending conferences. I have a pile of the things, some too big or too small, and others so garish they feel like a punishment. I can deal with an ugly badge, but I hate an unusable one. The previous version of the An Event Apart badges that I designed used a generous setting of Garamond , contained all the relevant information, and looked the part just fine. But in practice we found the type to be too soft and the additional information a tad too big. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

I hope I’m not too late to say so, but the early bird registration deadline for An Event Apart Chicago is this coming Monday. Last chance to save $100 on the last show of 2008! Between now and the Chicago event, I’ll be back in lovely Destin, Florida for this year’s edition of the CIW conference at which I spoke last year. This time around I’ll be doing a blend of beginner and advanced CSS, plus a more reflective talk on the state of the web as I see it bothj now and in the near future. In a like vein, I’ll be taking much the same topics and messages to the stage of Web Directions East in Tokyo, Japan. Thanks to both personal and professional obligations, overseas travel is a rarity for me these days, and furthermore this will be only my second appearance in Asia (the first having been WWW2005 ), so this is a rare opportunity to catch me away from the Americas… Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

The second day of An Event Apart San Francisco is drawing to a close. The day opened with my talk, Patterns in the Process . You can download the slides if you like—Creative Commons licensed, as usual—but just looking at the slides is like trying to listen to a presentation by putting a glass against the wall of the building next door. When I was giving my talk, I thought it was kind of rambling and incoherent. But it went down well and lots of people told me they liked it afterwards so I’ll put my self-criticism away… Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

The first day of An Event Apart is wrapping up in San Francisco. The quality of talks has been outstanding. Now I’m really bricking it about my talk tomorrow morning. The bar has been set ridiculously high. I’ve done my best to liveblog throughout the day. Inevitably there will be mistakes and omissions in these second-hand reports but here they are: Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer Storytelling by Design by Jason Santa Maria Web Application Hierarchy by Luke W. … Read the rest here

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Dan Cederholm is in the house at An Event Apart San Francisco. He’s all about the bulletproofing. Simplebits describe what they do as hand crafted pixels and text . This idea of craft, building something with your hands, is what Dan wants to concentrate on. It isn’t always obvious in web design how well-crafted a web site is. Dan will run through a case study that focus on three aspects of web design: being bulletproof, being adaptable and focusing on the details. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

So, I began 2008 with a goal of minimizing my travel this year following two years of continuous speaking events, and I’ve done a pretty good job of sticking to that goal. I’ll wrap up this year with a couple events in Utah, a web radio interview, and another appearance at An Event Apart. AIGA Salt Lake City August 14th, 7pm This event will be held just across the freeway from me at the Art Institute of Salt Lake City (Draper, Utah). I’ll be speaking on striving for design excellence individually and as a team. Admission is $5 for students and AIGA members, $10 for guests. Couch Cast web radio interview August 18th, 12pm MST Anyone is welcome to listen live or call in by dialing (347) 324-3797 during recording… Read the rest here