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Web 3.0 Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold #AListApart

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The salad bar theory of UX professionalism - Design Less, but better? Not this week.

A List Apart founder @zeldman.bsky.social on our latest obsession with how much and how fast.

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Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons of the classic methodology, as well as when other solutions might work better.

Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons and lays out an alternative.



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How to Create an Editorial Calendar and Be More Successful Learn how to create an effective editorial calendar so you can write better content and manage your blog with less stress. Includes free template.

Destress your blogging life with an editorial calendar. You can create one in five minutes using any spreadsheet tool. Here’s how.

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A gift from the wonderful @stephaniewalter.bsky.social. #ColorTheory #palettes #resources #tools #InclusiveDesign #a11y #color #colors

A Content Model Is Not a Design System These days, content models have to serve a variety of delivery channels, each more outlandish than the last. But why do many content models still look more like design systems rather than reflectin…

Creating a content model with design-system thinking could capsize your customers’ omni-channel strategy. Avoid that outcome by creating content models that are semantic and that also connect related content.

A Content Model Is Not a Design System
by Mike Wills

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Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity For millions of people with vertigo and inner ear problems, large-scale web animations can trigger nausea, migraines, and dizziness. To make websites accessible for everyone, we don’t need to elimi…

★ Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity
by Val Head September 08, 2015

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A Simpler Page Want to design a book? There are mountains of beautifully designed examples to inspire you. But what about digital books? How do you create elegantly typeset, gloriously balanced reading experience…

Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design

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I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’.

Animated GIF alt:

App menu → Settings → AI Controls → “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle).

Then scroll down and find Translations. Change from “Blocked” to “Available”.

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag Read the book online for free.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it) I don’t know if it’s just me, or if something’s happened in the last few months, but I keep seeing faux bolds everywhere. The fix is tiny and simple, although frankly the mistake is pretty basic –…

Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it): "I don’t know if it’s just me, or if something’s happened in the last few months, but I keep seeing faux bolds everywhere. The fix is tiny and simple." #CSS clagnut.com/blog/2438

Proximity Principle in Visual Design The principle of proximity states that we perceive objects which are close to one another as a group. This is true even if the color, size…

The proximity principle is based on the idea that our minds seek to organize and bring order out of chaos, which makes it easy for us to navigate the world.

Neointeraction Design explains: https://neointeraction-design.medium.com/proximity-principle-in-visual-design-1b425de55fcd

Evolving Design Language in the AI Era: From Good to Great Explore how the AI era reshapes design language, emphasizing objective critique over subjective opinions for successful outcomes.

When AI can generate good-looking work instantly, “good” can’t carry the weight it used to. Change the conversation to reflect what design has always been at its best: goals-aligned, research-informed, constraints-aware, and outcomes-focused. @pseudoroom.bsky.social shares how.

Repeatable Form Fields Made Simple :: Aaron Gustafson Sometimes you need users to provide multiple instances of the same information—multiple email addresses, phone numbers, team members, or emergency contacts. The form-repeatable web component makes this...

Add repeatable form field groups with automatic numbering and native form participation.

Noticing when you use "it's not that bad" to deny your or others reality is part of how you practice disability justice.

My latest piece for @alistapart.com

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership “The relationship between a Design Manager and Lead Designer isn’t about dividing territories. It’s about multiplying impact. When both roles understand they’re tending to different aspects of the …

Having both a Design Manager and a Lead Designer on the same team is beautiful, but can be messy. To make it work without creating confusion, overlap, or “too many cooks,” check Michel Ferreira’s Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership.

Illustration: Tom Shannon for @alistapart.com. #ala25

Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025 A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.

Our most-used words in 2025 were (no surprise):

1. "content" (9×)
2. "design" (6×)
3. "webdevelopment" (5×)
4. "webdesign" (5×)
5. "html" (4×)

See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

"Ultimately, many of these edits and punts were made in light of the CSS Working Group’s three primary goals for this spec. It needed to be:" Powerful • Robust • Performant

A Modern Typographic Scale Rob Weychert reaches for the top notes to sing us a song of typographic scale. A little attention to scale and to the mathematics will help you to hit a high note with your designs this Christmas and ...

It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.

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The AI that we’ll have after AI Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.

“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.

“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”

Jeffrey Zeldman doll sporting a blue beanie (of course). Designed and manufactured by Dolls for Friends for my SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame party in 2012.

November 30 is #BlueBeanieDay, supporting web standards and accessibility, the building blocks empowering a people-first web.

Remember how good that web felt? It still does.

Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.

A happy #BlueBeanieDay to you and yours, celebrating an open and accessible web.

( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )

A Simpler Page Want to design a book? There are mountains of beautifully designed examples to inspire you. But what about digital books? How do you create elegantly typeset, gloriously balanced reading experience…

Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design

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Sadly, and bafflingly (from a UX POV at least), it does not redirect. Whether it *can’t* redirect because it would take too many resources, or it *can* and is on the roadmap, we cannot say, as @support.bsky.team hasn’t yet addressed that question.

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.


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Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents Personal site of author, designer, Automattician, and A List Apart founder & publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. Teaching and writing about web design and web standards since 1995. Also featuring “My Glamorous...

Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.

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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up The mission is to keep the web sustainable.

Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.

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Learning Curves — jasonsantamaria.com Assorted thoughts on slowly improving at designing type while working on a lowercase addition to Citywide.

📢 New post: I wrote about improving at designing type in fits and starts while working on a lowercase for my font Citywide. Progress isn’t always quick, but I’m really enjoying the make mistakes 🔁 get a little better loop.

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Back in 2007 I started freelancing under the name Made by Elephant. Was doing some domain cleanup and was curious what the logo would look like if I did it today. Fun little Wednesday warmup exercise. (Old on the left, new on the right)