Happy Cog: News

Beantown bye-bye

happycog — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:06:36 +0000

An Event Apart Boston 2009 is now history. Over 400 passionate practitioners of standards-based design joined us at the Marriott Copley Place for two intensely educational days of best practices and creative new ideas with Happy Cog’s Daniel Mall, Whitney Hess, founder Jeffrey Zeldman, and 12 other high-octane speakers. The next AEA event takes place October 12–13 in Chicago.

ALA 286

happycog — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:42:18 +0000

In Issue No. 286 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites—the case for aesthetics in visual design. Plus: Learn how to use the attributes of meta and link to do a body good.

ALA 285: Speed & Werewolves

happycog — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:41:13 +0000

In Issue No. 285 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Michael Lopp teaches us to think critically about verbal and non-verbal behavior in the care and feeding of creative teams; and Lyle Mullican shows how the path to more responsive, more empowering user experiences may begin with database design.

Zeldman in .net

happycog — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:42:32 +0000

The upcoming issue of .Net, the UK/US magazine devoted to web design and development, features as its cover story an interview with Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman. Get the low-down behind the rise of web standards and the scoop on emerging trends and themes as JZ sees them. Read in PDF (4.2 MB download) or purchase at your local newstand. Visit netmag.co.uk for more of the best in web design and development.

ALA 284: Look sharp

happycog — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:18:57 +0000

In Issue No. 284 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Scale video on the fly while maintaining its aspect ratio. Neat! And learn to recognize (and fight) the depression and burnout that can come with the “always on” web career.

An Event Apart Seattle – That’s a Wrap!

happycog — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:34:36 +0000

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.

ALA 283: crowd wisdom, design smarts

happycog — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:00:35 +0000

Powazek plumbs the wisdom of community and Ritzenthaler takes the guesswork out of design in Issue No. 283 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.

ALA 282: Real Type on the Web

happycog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:28:18 +0000

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.

Web Design Survey Findings

happycog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:47:37 +0000

Once again, 30,000+ A List Apart readers took time to fill out our survey—and we spent six months slicing and dicing the results. Find out what we learned about web design as a profession. Read the survey findings.

The annual A List Apart survey is the only public source of data on the salaries, titles, and work satisfaction of full-time, part-time, salaried and freelance web professionals.

Zeldman on Open Source Design

happycog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:38:39 +0000

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.”