The Big Web Show

We're mixing it up for today’s episode of The Big Web Show. Instead of interviewing one or more amazing web innovators per our standard practice, Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman interview each other. Links for this episode: Hivelogic Dan Benjamin (danbenjamin) on Twitter Happy Cog Happy Cog Studios (happycog) on Twitter Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman) on Twitter A List Apart A List Apart (alistapart) on Twitter 5 by 5 Studios (5by5studios) on Twitter A Book Apart, Welcome A Book Apart (abookapart) on Twitter An Event Apart: The Design Conference For People Who Make Web Sites An Event Apart (aneventapart) on Twitter stopdesign Doug Bowman (stop) on Twitter Jason Santa Maria Jason Santa Maria (jasonsantamaria) on Twitter meyerweb.com Eric A. Meyer (meyerweb) on Twitter Adactio: Jeremy Keith Jeremy Keith (adactio) on Twitter

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Rich Ziade about how Arc90 manages the balance between product development and client services, and how to build a reputation when your client services agreements prevent you from having a public portfolio. Links for this episode: Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment Arc90 Lab BASEMENT.ORG Home | Kindling Idea Management

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Aarron Walter, lead user experience designer for MailChimp, about white-hat SEO strategies, user intent and content, usability, and more. Links for this episode: InterACT With Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design | The Web Standards Project Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp Ranks Webmaster Tools Free Personal Finance Software, Budget Software, Online Money Management and Budget Planner | Mint.com Aarron Walter: Author, Speaker, Designer

Jeffrey and Dan talk with the legendary Rogert Black about web type, design templates, screen resolution, web publishing, responsive design, and more. Links for this episode: Webtype Treesaver: A new design for the web Home | Ready-Media Just Add Water - Grids - SPD.ORG - Grids Introducing Nomad Editions - a series of digital weeklies designed directly for mobile devices. Danilo Black :: think digital The Font Bureau, Inc. Font Bureau People | David Berlow Meet Roger Black On Location - Five Shipping Containers Become a West Texas Retreat - NYTimes.com Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates %u2013 Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benamin talk with Tracy Osborn about the ins and outs of networking when you're not well known; where ideas and inspiration come from; how to recognize and develop your best ideas and persuade others to believe in them; and more. Links for this episode: Tracy Osborn at Limedaring.com Technical co-founder wanted for disrupting the wedding ColorBlendy - Blend colors with different modes like multiply, overlay, dodge. Wedding typography and wording for invitation kits | WeddingType.com Sortfolio : Find a great web designer by style, budget, and location. Hacker News

Jeffrey and Dan talk with Sunni Brown, noted information designer, about visual communication and debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction. Links for this episode: The Center for Graphic Facilitation: Books VizThink - Viz Think Austin Sunni Brown and the Doodle Revolution: a TEDx talk | VizThink Gamestorming | Sunni Brown Amazon.com: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (9780446691437): Steven Pressfield: Books The Conversation #20: Visual Thinking | 5by5

Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech — nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” talks with Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin about social media and much more. Links for this episode: HPC | marketing uncommon -- social spelunking by Tara Hunt Karaoke Across America | Whuff-aoke or Bust Tara Hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia So open it hurts | San Francisco online Amazon.com: The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business (9780307409508): Tara Hunt: Books Amazon.com: The Power of Social Networking: Using the Whuffie Factor to Build Your Business (9780307449405): Tara Hunt: Books BarCamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia About Citizen Agency | Citizen Agency

Jeffrey and Dan talk with Gowalla CEO Josh Williams about social media, being an entrepreneur, developer applications for the web and mobile, marketing a new business, and more.

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Michael Nolan, a senior editor for Pearson’s New Riders and Peachpit imprints, focusing on web design and development. In this special hour of insights, we discuss how publishing really works, where it’s going, and how it will survive, plus plenty of stories about your favorite authors and designers, and tips on how to identify talent for those who are hiring, and how present yourself as a talented and desirable catch for those who are trying to boost their visibility and career prospects. Links for this episode: Peachpit: Michael Nolan Peachpit: Write for Us Peachpit: imprints > New Riders Peachpit: Marty Neumeier Peachpit: Designful Company, The: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation, Adobe Reader Amazon.com: Design for Community (9780735710757): Derek Powazek: Books Amazon.com: Content Strategy for the Web (9780321620064): Kristina Halvorson:%u2026

Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman talk with "Andy McMillan":http://goodonpaper.com/, founder of "Build":http://buildconf.com/, an annual “hand-crafted web design conference” located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and CSS godfather "Eric Meyer":http://meyerweb.com/, co-founder of "An Event Apart":http://aneventapart.com, the design conference for people who make websites. Links for this episode: meyerweb.com Build An Event Apart: The Design Conference For People Who Make Web Sites An Event Apart | Facebook

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole Sullivan knows, and shares her insight, experience, and expertise in this in-depth discussion with Dan and Jeffrey. Links for this episode: Stubbornella Home - oocss - GitHub

Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman talk with Jason Fried, CEO and co-founder of 37 Signals about changing an industry, collaborating, reducing distractions and interruptions, design, logos, usability, real and virtual offices, co-working, designing in the open, and more. Links for this episode: 37signals Draft for iPad: Simple sketching and sharing 37signals >> 11 > Copy Righting The 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999) Overcommitted... to apps we love. 37signals change history Amazon.com: Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (9780735714106): Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried: Books The New Office: The Idea and the Floor Plan - (37signals) Video: Construction on the new office continues. - (37signals) Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & Surveys

Dan and Jeffrey talk with guest Ethan Marcotte. Topics include designing and coding for the likes of the Sundance Film Festival and New York Magazine, and the joys of responsive web design, working remotely, and more. Links for this episode: A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design Simon Collison | Colly | The Celebrated Miscellany The Hickensian | Hicksdesign Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)

Dan and Jeffrey talk with Whitney Hess about social networking, getting clients, and user experience design--from research to wireframes to testing and beyond. Links for this episode: DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro) Amazon.com: Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct%u2026 Amazon.com: Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (9780321657299): Steve Krug: Books

Dan and Jeffrey talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing in the real world, with practical advice for designers, UI engineers, and developers alike. Links for this episode: User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE