Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Jeffrey Zeldman — Web standards pioneer, founder of A List Apart
Web standards pioneer, founder of A List Apart, and author of Designing with Web Standards.
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One of the foundational voices of the modern web. Jeffrey Zeldman has been writing about web design, standards, and digital culture since 1995 — he co-created the Web Standards Project, founded A List Apart, and literally wrote the book on designing with web standards. His blog blends industry insight with personal storytelling, from critiques of how the tech industry uses AI to memoir-like reflections on the craft of making things for the web.
Written by Jeffrey Zeldman since 1995.
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What a year that was.
“1995 begins with web designers creating cinematic experiences using images and browser tricks, and ends with the arrival of table support in Netscape Navigator, giving true control over layout.”—Richard MacManus Read Richard’s post: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables. The post What a year that was. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Advice for job seekers
I recently heard from an accomplished former colleague who had failed to impress the recruiter evaluating their initial application for an open position. It was a position for which they were more than qualified. So why hadn’t they scored so much as an initial interview? Turned out the candidate had punted on questions like, “Tell us about a project or piece of work you’re especially proud of, from any point in your career.” Their answers were brief, generalized, and lacking in detail. Withou...
American healthcare
Hello from CVS. CVS messed up my order so I have to wait around for 30 minutes while they reprocess it. It costs $30/month, used to be home-delivered, and their app said that today was the last day I could pick it up. But when I arrived, they told me they’d taken it out of readiness yesterday even though I still had a day’s grace. (I couldn’t pick it up yesterday because I was having a procedure done on my knee.) They had also quoted me a price of $1200+/month. So I...
The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
Back when we thought office spaces were necessary, I used to run a small creative studio in Manhattan. Most days a bunch of us would cross the street to order lunch from one of those “we make everything” mega-delis designed to feed and siphon cash from midtown workers. The highlight of the place, and its most popular item, was an endless (four benches!) salad bar.“Food by the pound,” my colleague Mike called the endless, four-bench salad bar. He meant that quantity, and not quality, was what...
Works in Progress
So a dear friend bought me Logic Pro as a birthday gift last month, and I’m teaching myself the program by creating music inside it. If you’re the kind of music lover who finds rough mix acetates fascinating, you may enjoy sampling the quick mixes of partially completed pieces I’m beginning to share in a new album on Sonica. At the moment, there’s one partial piece up: a rough mix of the beginning of something I’m temporarily calling Airy Clouds. The music will change significantly in the co...
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