An interview with Think Vitamin : While I was in London for the Future of Web Design conference this past May, I had the pleasure of chatting with Keir Whitaker from Carsonified about Dribbble . You can also find the audio over at Huffduffer if you happen to huff the duff stuff. … Read the rest here
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
In just over seven weeks’ time , Brighton will once again play host to dConstruct . I’m particularly excited about this year’s line-up. As well as the always-awesome Tom , Brendan and Hannah , there will be speakers that I haven’t seen before like Marty Neumeier and David McCandless . Then there’s the dynamic duo of John Gruber and Merlin Mann , no strangers to public speaking or each other. 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility! on Huffduffer I’m really looking forward to hearing Merlin Mann—as my Huffduffing history attests—and not just because he said nice things about Huffduffer . … Read the rest here
Locate a Web Design Conference : Not complete, but a pretty long list. … Read the rest here
All of a sudden, people have been asking me to yak about myself and stuff that I know (or at least think I know). These things tend to come in waves, and right now I’m surfing like a search engine’s crawlerbot. I don’t think that metaphor made any sense at all. Anyway, here’s what I’ve had to say so far: The Geek Talk: Eric Meyer — a brief e-mail interview I did a week or so back. Want to know my favorite color… Read the rest here
Brooklyn Beta : Coming to Brooklyn in October, this is a new conference brought to you by Analog & Fictive Kin . I’m thrilled to be a part of it because a) I’ve never visited New York (I know!) and b) I’ll be sharing some stuff I’ve not shared before. No Good vs. Great Design this time around. … Read the rest here
While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana… Read the rest here
While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You’ll have an edge over other applicants if you can “coherently explain what ‘fat models, skinny controllers’ means and why it is good.” Alas, I cannot. … Read the rest here
While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. … Read the rest here
Web Design Concepts for Non-Web Designers : These slides are from a HOW presentation given by Matthew Richmond, aka Chopping Block . The slide format uses HTML5 and is based on the HTML5 Slideshow by Marcin Wichary, Ernest Delgado, Alex Russell, and Brad Neuberg. What’s significant about this presentation is that Matthew’s shop has been a Flash development shop almost since its inception. Although Matthew firmly believes that there are experiences Flash provides that HTML5 cannot replicate, he’s very aware of the heated zealous crazy current debate between the two technologies. Matthew and I, along with Patrick McNeil , had the pleasure of sitting on a panel together at HOW. Matthew and Patrick are both sharp individuals, and it was a pleasure to field questions from the audience together. … Read the rest here
The @media conference has been a constant star in the UK web standards community since 2005. This year, the baton was smoothly passed to those awesome aussies, John and Maxine of Web Directions, creating the hybridly-titled Web Directions @media that took place in London last week. Before the conference proper, there were two days of workshops in the Hogwartsian location of the superbly-named Goodenough College . I spent a day on Getting semantic with microformats and HTML5 . I think it went pretty well. I came to the conclusion that it’s easier to explain everything about microformats than to explain the new outline algorithm in HTML5. … Read the rest here
Good vs. Great(er) Design : I’m not typically fond of publishing my slides without the additional context provided by audio or video from the presentation, as my slides aren’t meant to stand on their own. But I’ll do it anyway. This PDF contains slides from the updated version of my “Good vs. Great Design” presentation, given recently at LessConf and HOW Design Conference … Read the rest here
MODE: Seeking LAMP Developer : From the looks of its blog , MODE looks like a really creative place to work. They’ve got offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and partial relocation assistance is among its list of job perks: 100% employee healthcare coverage, 25 vacation days, 401k with matching, partial relocation assistance, young agency atmosphere, free drinks, paid conferences, beautiful weather, very little management overhead. … Read the rest here
dConstruct 2010 : Having spoken at this conference before, I can vouch for a quality conference put on by Clearleft each year. And the design of this year’s site? Stunning, fresh, and love the parallax effect as you widen/narrow your browser window. … Read the rest here
I’ve never over-run on a talk. Ever. Usually I embarrasingly finish around 10 mins early, leaving plenty of time for questions. Until last week at Future of Web Design that is. When it came down to the last 5 minutes, I realised I had a lot more to go, and had to really hurry the last couple of sections. Thankfully the feedback so far has been positive, but I promise this will be (probably) be the last time I talk on this subject. … Read the rest here
Earlier this week I presented a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo titled “ HTML5 vs. Flash: Webpocalypse Now? ” which seemed to be pretty well received. That might be because I did my best to be unbiased about the situation both now and into the future, and also that the audience was very heavily weighted toward web stack practitioners. Seriously, out of 100-150 audience members, about six raised their hand when I asked who was developing with Flash… Read the rest here
A few months ago 37signals redesigned Basecamp ’s notification emails, and the result was a move from plain-text emails to HTML emails. For reference, these emails are sent when someone posts or replies to any of the content types in the system (messages, to-dos, etc). I’m generally opposed to receiving HTML emails if a plain-text alternate is available. I use email as a tool to send and receive communication, and too often some creators of HTML email offer visual noise more than anything else. Ironically, they fail to leverage one advantage HTML email has over plain-text email: visual hierarchy, or the ability to help the reader get the right message using color, proportion, and so forth. Visual hierarchy, the classification of elements according to importance and relationship to other elements, tends to be one of the most ignored and underutilized principles of design. … Read the rest here
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint : There are so many quotable lines in this New York Times story I could very well copy and paste the entire thing here. Instead, a few gems, beginning with this one: ‘PowerPoint makes us stupid,’ Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. … Read the rest here
B-Cycle to Launch First Bike Sharing Program in Denver : B-Cycle is a bike sharing service not unlike Zipcar ’s car sharing service. The concept is already prolific in many areas of Europe, as this Wikipedia page demonstrates. If you’ll be joining me (and other fine speakers ) in Denver this June, you might consider B-Cycle as a way to get around town. Service begins April 22. /via Uncrate … Read the rest here
I gave a presentation last week as part of the HTML5 Online Conference . There seems to be more and more of these virtual events in the style of Aral’s Head conference . This one involved desktop sharing and audio. Apart from some glitches with the Campfire backchannel, it all went pretty smoothly. … Read the rest here