The Big Web Show

Mike Essl, Dean at Cooper Union School of Art in New York, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Topics: The designer as hobbyist. “I was an expert witness for the Associated Press.” Design is a machine. Working in a comic book store. The Cooper Union coincidences. Web design in 1995 versus today. New York design versus San Francisco design. Systems making versus picture making. Kind of Bloop. Links for this episode: Mike Essl Mike Essl (@essl) | Twitter Welcome | The Cooper Union Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop: Johan Kugelberg, Joe Conzo, Afrika Bambaataa, Buddy Esquire, Jeff Chang: 9780789315403: Amazon.com: Books Amazon.com: Watching the Watchmen (9781848560413): Dave Gibbons: Books The Chopping Block, Inc :: World Domination Through Graphic Design

David Sleight, Design Director at ProPublica, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces “investigative journalism with moral force.” David is a web designer, creative director, and leader at the intersection of publishing and digital technology. Topics include: Stop blaming the algorithm. Design ethics. Stories as products. How the role of the story affects art direction. Our medium needs design that is faster and design that is slower. The renaissance of The Washington Post. How reporting creates products. Can reporters be part of the Resistance? Links for this episode: Home — ProPublica ProPublica Data Store David Sleight (@stuntbox) | Twitter Stuntbox – Design and strategy of the finest cut. ProPublica (@ProPublica) | Twitter Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly — ProPublica Bombs in Our Backyard — ProPublica 5by5 | The Big Web Show #66: David Sleight Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).

Designer Josh Clark (@bigmediumjosh) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Josh founded the consultancy BIG MEDIUM, whose slogan is “Design for what’s next.” He designs mobile and IoT experiences, AIs, and bots; is the author of Designing For Touch and Tapworthy; and got his start as the creator of Couch to 5K. Links for this episode: Josh on Twitter Big Medium Brought to you by: Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).

Jen Simmons (@JenSimmons), Designer Advocate at Mozilla, creators Layout Land, host of The Web Ahead, and driving force with Rachel Andrew behind CSS Grid in our browsers, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Free speech, Libertarianism, and doxxing. The CSS Grid Inspector and other tools coming our way—including Flexbox Inspector and Shape Path editor, Variable Fonts tooling, and tools for font features. #metoo and #blacklivesmatter. Video blogging’s unheralded heroes. Rough consensus and running code. Layout Land and modern layouts. Team teaching with Rachel Andrew. What goes into a great instructional video. Links for this episode: Layout Land The Web Ahead JenSimmons.com Learn CSS Grid | Jen Simmons The Web Behind: Videoblogging with Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi | The Web Ahead An Event Apart News: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart video An Event Apart News: Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart Video Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) | Twitter Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).

Designer, entrepreneur, and social media consultant Sarah Parmenter is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Working with celebrities, the wrong way to save a troubled brand, using social media is not the same as consulting on social media, design ten years ago and now, can one web designer do it all? Links for this episode: About Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) | Twitter Sarah Parmenter – Medium Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) • Instagram photos and videos An Event Apart: Denver 2017 Special Edition Web Design & UX Conference The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar Oath's advisory board has Serena Williams as chair and Russell Wilson, Chuck D and Karlie Kloss as members | FierceCable SuperDuper! Brought to you by: HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter BWS30). Videoblocks (Go to Videoblocks.com/bigwebshow to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149). Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).

Michael Simmons, designer and CEO of Flexibits (makers of Fantastical and Cardhop) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Designing “professional but not professional boring” experiences. Usefulness versus “garnish.” How animation can convey brand values. Creating experiences instead of feature sets. Instagram vs Snapchat. “The car that sells itself” and marketing by letting the product speak for itself. Links for this episode: Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for Mac | Meet your Mac's new calendar. Flexibits | Cardhop for Mac | The contacts app you'll actually want to use. Cardhop on the Mac App Store Old Honda Commercial from the late 80's - YouTube Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter BWS30). Videoblocks (Go to Videoblocks.com/bigwebshow to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149). Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).

Host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Bram Stein, Typekit’s director of web fonts and author of the Webfont Handbook (A Book Apart, 2017). The two designers discuss creating great font stacks, optimizing web font performance, FOUT versus FOIT, the horror of fallback fonts, and new technology including variable fonts and font-display: FOUT or FOIT. Links for this episode: Bram Stein (@bram_stein) | Twitter Indra Kupferschmid (@kupfers) | Twitter A Book Apart, Webfont Handbook Variable Fonts for Responsive Design · An A List Apart Blog Post Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. Font Face Observer — fast and simple web font loading Typographica Alphabettes The Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts – John Hudson – Medium font-display - CSS | MDN Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter BWS30). Videoblocks (Go to Videoblocks.com/bigwebshow to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).

Ben Jackson, founder & principal of Brooklyn advising firm For the Win, and creator of the open-source onboarding app Aloha, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Ben and Jeffrey discuss service design, the opportunity cost of bad onboarding experiences, the 4Cs of good onboarding (compliance, clarity, culture, and community), the Aloha chatbot and how it fits into the broader trend of HR tech consumerization, and more. Programming since 1992, Ben is a designer, engineer, editor, and entrepreneur, a past director of Mobile for VICE Media, past mobile lead for Longform, and past iOS lead for The New York Times. He has written and edited bylines for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and VICE; spoken at SXSW, Ignite NY, and Social Media Week; and volunteers on the curriculum Advisory Board, Coalition for Queens. Links for this episode: For the Win: Design-first Employee Onboarding in New Yorkdesign-first on boarding that takes the pain out of hiring Aloha! Automated Onboarding for Slack Teamsan on boarding bot for busy admins and growing Slack teams Tools for Startups How to Make Onboarding Engineers a Competitive Advantage | GitPrime Blog Vice’s Director of Mobile Apps Ben Jackson is creating his own startup advisory firm | TechCrunch Notion – Docs, Wikis, Tasks. Seamlessly in one. Anatomy of a Snap Attack | The New Yorker Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers: Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo: 8601300354866: Amazon.com: Books Guide to Service Blueprinting — Practical Service Design Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).

Rachel Nabors, author of Animation at Work (A Book Apart, 2017) stops by The Big Web Show to discuss how animation can help ease cognitive load in UX; creating the illusion of life; developing data to make the case for animation; pattern libraries; prototyping; and the link between animation and music. Rachel Nabors has been an award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist, who parlayed her storytelling skills into a web design and development career. She has done projects with Mozilla, been an invited expert to the W3C, and currently works at Microsoft. Rachel tends the web animation community via the Animation at Work Slack and her web animation newsletter. Links for this episode: Rachel Nabors: Award-winning cartoonist turned digital storyteller. - Rachel Nabors, award-winning cartoonist turned digital storyteller. Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) | Twitter A Book Apart, Animation at Work Invite user Web Animation Weekly Lightning Design System Rachel Nabors - Wikiwand Barba.js DevTools Challenger Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart Article Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). BlueApron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow.

Clearleft’s Andy Budd and host Zeldman discuss the changing role design agencies must play to remain relevant; the rise of in-house design; working with pattern libraries (since 2008!); whether the “golden age” of web design and blogging is over; and much more. Andy Budd has been blogging about design and technology since 2003. He was one of the leading lights of the web standards movement and his book, CSS Mastery, sold over 60,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. Andy is a founding partner at UX design consultancy Clearleft; the curator of dConstruct, one of the UK’s most popular design conferences; and the force behind UX London, the UK’s first dedicated usability, IA, and UX design event. Links for this episode: Homepage | Clearleft CSS Mastery: Amazon.co.uk: Andy Budd, Emil Björklund: 9781430258636: Books Andy Budd: Blogography Andy Budd (@andybudd) | Twitter Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). BlueApron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow.

As designers, we create human-centered interactions and experiences. Empathetic purpose drives our every decision. This same mentality, turned inward, forms the cornerstone of something amazing: a creative culture. Jeffrey Zeldman interviews designer, creative director, iconist, and author Justin Dauer (@pseudoroom) about his new book, Cultivating a Creative Culture—now available everywhere. Links for this episode: Cultivating a Creative Culture Amazon: Cultivating a Creative Culture iTunes: Cultivating a Creative Culture @the_culturebook on Twitter Justin Dauer on Twitter: @pseudoroom Pseudoroom.com Medium: Creative Culture @pseudoroom on Instagram The Creative Culture Podcast Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). User Interviews (Find participants for user research studies today! Visit userinterviews.com/bigwebshow and they will waive the sourcing fee for your first 5 interviews). SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/bigwebshow to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month). BlueApron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow.

Illustrator, designer, and author Geri Coady (@hellogeri) is @zeldman’s guest. The two designers discuss blogging, learning graphic design, transitioning to web design, color accessibility tips and strategies, book writing, and the upcoming travel blog, Geri Draws Japan. Links for this episode: Geri Coady | Canadian Designer & Illustrator in Nottingham, UK A Book Apart, Color Accessibility Workflows Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article Geri Coady on Twitter: @hellogeri Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). User Interviews (Find participants for user research studies today! Visit userinterviews.com/bigwebshow and they will waive the sourcing fee for your first 5 interviews). SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/bigwebshow to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month).

Nick Disabato (@nickd) and @zeldman discuss heat maps, conversion rates, design specialization, writing for the web, Jakob Nielsen, and the early days of blogging in Episode #159 of The Big Web Show – “everything web that matters.” Links for this episode: NickD.org : Bio Draft NickD.org Nick Disabato on Twitter: @nickd Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). Hotjar (By visiting hotjar.com/bigwebshow you will get a 30 day (extended) free Business trial of Hotjar and all its functionality). User Interviews (Find participants for user research studies today! Visit userinterviews.com/bigwebshow and they will waive the sourcing fee for your first 5 interviews). BlueApron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow.

Internet veterans Jim @Coudal & Jeffrey @Zeldman on the death of blogging, the birth of Field Notes, the virtues of a subscription model, and much more. Begins in tears, ends in triumph. One of the most fun (and most inspiring) episodes ever. Links for this episode: Memo Books, Notebooks, Journals & Planners | Field Notes Coudal Partners Coudal Partners Film & Video Archives Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis Presented by Adobe Creative Cloud Brought to you by: Hotjar (By visiting hotjar.com/bigwebshow you will get a 30 day (extended) free Business trial of Hotjar and all its functionality). BlueApron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow.

ProPublica (@ProPublica) design director David Sleight (@stuntbox) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. How do publications brand themselves when a platform removes their fonts, art, and layout? What is “journalism in the public interest” and how does it differ from traditional reporting? What is bespoke web design and how does it work at ProPublica? What’s next for the ProPublica platform? How do newspapers retain readers in the age of AMP? ProPublica (“Journalism in the Public Interest”) was a recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting, and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. David is a publication designer and web geek, formerly at BusinessWeek, Pearson Ed, and consulting land. Links for this episode: David Sleight (@stuntbox) | Twitter ProPublica Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk - ProPublica Trigger Warning An Unbelievable Story of Rape - ProPublica ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal Brought to you by: Hotjar (By visiting hotjar.com/bigwebshow you will get a 30 day (extended) free Business trial of Hotjar and all its functionality).