Design Archives
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Seattle conference schedule
January 4, 2010
An Event Apart, Happy Cog’s conference “for people who make websites,” proudly presents three days in April—including a special, one-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, led by Jeremy Keith and Dan Cederholm. The complete schedule is now available for your perusal.
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Take the survey
December 15, 2009
Each year since 2007, we’ve asked you, the members of the web design community, a few dozen questions about your professional life, and compared your answers to those of your colleagues. The data that you provide and we analyze is the only significant information about our profession as a profession to be published anywhere, by anyone. Please take the survey for people who make websites. The job you save could be your own.
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Web Fonts!
November 17, 2009
Web fonts are here. Now what? In Issue No. 296 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Tim Brown debuts Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource that shows how typefaces really look on the web; and Jason Santa Maria tells how to avoid using fonts that don’t work on the web, and achieve graceful pairings of fonts that do.
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An Event Apart Seattle – That’s a Wrap!
May 8, 2009
On May 4–5, a sellout crowd enjoyed two days of peace, love, design, code, and content at An Event Apart Seattle, our design conference for people who make websites. Highlights included Kristina Halvorson’s impassioned advocacy and how-to session on content strategy; Luke Wroblewski’s insights into designing web forms to create compelling and successful user experiences; and Derek Powazek’s practical tips on creating positive participation on your website. Our next show, An Event Apart Boston, takes place June 22–23. Seating is still available; earlybird discount pricing ends May 25.
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ALA 282: Real Type on the Web
April 21, 2009
In Issue No. 282 of Happy Cog’s A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites: We discuss the licensing and technical hurdles of bringing real type to the web with The Font Bureau’s David Berlow, and explore the usability benefits of beauty in design with Stephen P. Anderson.
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Zeldman on Open Source Design
April 6, 2009
At Big Think, Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman discusses open source as it relates to design. Big Think is a global online forum conducting “in-depth interviews with the world’s leading experts.”
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Quitting your job? Now hear this.
March 30, 2009
Now on Jeffrey Zeldman’s website, the complete audio recording of “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small”, a panel at SXSW Interactive 2009 featuring Roger Black, Kristina Halvorson, and Whitney Hess, and moderated by Zeldman.
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Redesign Mozilla.org
March 11, 2009
The Mozilla Foundation, one of Happy Cog’s newest clients, has engaged us to redesign the web presence for Mozilla.org. As part of the project, we’re opening up the designs to feedback from the community. You can read more about the project and share your thoughts with us and the Mozilla team at RedesignMozilla.org.
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Focus on art: MICA relaunch
March 10, 2009
As one of the top art and design schools in the world, Maryland Institute College of Art demanded bold thinking and exceptional execution in the redesign of its website. In Happy Cog’s site design, MICA’s student artwork isn’t merely the most important element in the visual space; it actually works to define the site experience. Read more.
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ALA 277: design, debug
February 3, 2009
In Issue No. 277 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Hallvord R. M. Steen and Chris Mills share the lowdown on Advanced Debugging with JavaScript, and Kevin Potts reveals the secrets of successful designers who keep their eye on The Details That Matter. P.S. You can now follow A List Apart on Twitter.