The Big Web Show

Host Jeffrey Zeldman and guest Mike Monteiro (Design Is A Job, Mule Radio) discuss truthfulness and respect in the design business, the beauty of client services, The Big Web Show’s move to the Mule Radio Network, and the secret behind all great content products and applications.

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Jake Archibald of Google Chrome about upcoming web caching standards, how the network connection is merely a layer of progressive enhancement and why you should build your app offline, communicating with non-developers, accessibility standards at BBC and The Guardian, the forking of Webkit, native versus web part 99, and why the much-linked article "Why Mobile Web Apps are Slow" proves no such thing. Links for this episode: http://jakearchibald.com https://twitter.com/jaffathecake https://github.com/jakearchibald https://plus.google.com/116237864387312784020/posts http://aneventapart.com/speakers/jake-archibald http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow http://webplatformdaily.org http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome http://dailynerd.nl https://github.com/gnarf/jquery-requestAnimationFrame https://github.com/slightlyoff/navigationcontroller http://alistapart.com/article/application-cache-is-a-douchebag This episode is sponsored by Lynda.com.

Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) and Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) discuss the creative process behind her CSS Secrets series and the book of the same name she is writing for O’Reilly; loving JavaScript and math; Lea’s professional path, beginning with coding Visual Basic at age twelve; using CSS to layout a print book about CSS; creating popular Open Source projects like Dabblet, Prism, and CSS3 Test; the case for progressive enhancement; earning a living doing your own thing; leaving her job at the W3C (announced today); and much more. Links for this episode: http://lea.verou.me http://prismjs.com http://dabblet.com http://css3test.com http://lea.verou.me/writing/ https://github.com/LeaVerou http://dribbble.com/LeaVerou https://twitter.com/leaverou https://www.facebook.com/leaverou http://alistapart.com/article/every-time-you-call-a-proprietary-feature-css3-a-kitten-dies http://lea.verou.me/2013/07/leaving-w3c/ This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by Lynda.com.

Mark Otto, creator of Bootstrap, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest on Episode No. 93 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"). Currently designing things at GitHub and previously at Twitter and ZURB, Mark may be found on the web at markdotto.com and on Twitter as @mdo. Links for this episode: http://markdotto.com https://twitter.com/mdo https://twitter.com/TwBootstrap http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ https://github.com/mdo Sponsored by Lynda.com

American designer Tash Wong and British designer Tom Harman are the co-founders of Coastermatic and Jeffrey Zeldman's guests in Episode No. 92 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"). Tash and Tom recently resided in Brooklyn, NY and completed their MFAs in Interaction Design at New York's School of Visual Arts; they are now bound for Hawaii, where they will expand their web-based product empire. Coastermatic, their first joint product, converts your Instagram photos into stone coasters, and was conceived during their time at SVA. (More in the August 2, 2012 issue of Dwell.) The three designers discuss UX, product, and business strategy; finding the right manufacturing and fulfillment partners; the division of labor in a small startup; and other juicy design and entrepreneurial topics.

Ryan and Tina Essmaker are Jeffrey Zeldman's guests for Episode No. 91 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"). Ryan is a designer and the co-founder of The Great Discontent. By day he works with Crush + Lovely as head of products, and manages No Little Plans, The Great Discontent's parent company. Tina is an illustrator, essayist, photographer, blogger, and the co-founder of The Great Discontent, an online journal of interviews focusing on creativity and risk, and No Little Plans, The Great Discontent's parent company. By day she manages community for Crush + Lovely and works as a freelance writer. This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by A List Apart, the design magazine for people who make websites.

The amazing Paul Ford is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in Episode No. 90 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). In a fast-moving hour, the two long-time web architects discuss computer system emulators on the web, designing web archives, the value of context in software and literature, the new tribalism, the fallacy of history, buying records when you are 16, why getting to magic is more important than attaining perfection, the interconnectedness of software design and storytelling, how parenting twins facilitates A/B testing, and loads more. Links for this episode: Ftrain.com A Conversation with Paul Ford, the Now-Former Web Editor of Harper's Magazine Harper's and the Harper's Archive Activate Save Publishing (bookmarklet) The Web is a Customer Service Medium Paul Ford on Medium This episode is sponsored by An Event Apart.

A 28-year-old Rubyist, Skillsharer, storyteller, and entrepreneur, Avi founded @designerpages and NYC on Rails before creating The Flatiron School—a 12 week, full-time program designed to turn you into a web developer. Links for this episode: http://flatironschool.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/avil-flombaum-skillshare_n_1817784.html http://meetup.com/ruby-75 https://twitter.com/flatironschool https://twitter.com/aviflombaum http://bit.ly/njK8gX http://www.linkedin.com/in/aviflombaum Sponsored by aneventapart.com - the design conference for people who make websites.

Greg Storey (@Brilliantcrank) of Happy Cog and Airbag Industries is Jeffrey's guest in Episode No. 88 of The Big Web Show. The two designers discuss the Austin tech and design scene; on-premises versus remote worker models; Greg's upcoming book (with Carl Smith) for people transitioning to web design; new methods of publishing on multiple platforms; modern web typography; and the inspiration behind the Digital PM Summit. Links for this episode: https://twitter.com/Brilliantcrank http://www.airbagindustries.com http://www.gregstorey.com http://happycog.com http://dpm2013.com http://bureauofdigitalaffairs.com http://alistapart.com/article/readingdesign http://www.magplus.com http://xoxco.com/packagr/ http://takingyourtalenttotheweb.com http://www.fivesimplesteps.com http://dribbble.com/Brilliantcrank http://instagram.com/brilliantcrank Sponsored by An Event Apart (http://aneventapart.com).

Squarespace founder and CEO Anthony Casalena (@acasalena) is my guest in Episode No. 87 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"). We discuss the platform's capabilities and the three markets it serves (consumer, designer, developer); the journey from one-person start-up to 120-person company; the launch of Squarespace's new e-commerce platform; how to design a start-up that makes money the day it launches; ways to build community around a non-open-source platform; the effectiveness of good old-fashioned traditional advertising in marketing an internet company like Squarespace; staffing up and laying people off; and much more. Links for this episode: https://twitter.com/acasalena http://www.squarespace.com http://answers.squarespace.com This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by Shutterstock.com. Use offer code “BIGWEBSHOW3” to save 30% off any Shutterstock photo package.

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Monkey Do studio co-founders Michael Pick and Tim Murtaugh, the design and development team behind the A List Apart and An Event Apart redesigns, HTML5 Reset, Edible City, and client projects including Scientific American, World Science Festival, and EconoMonitor. Mike, Tim, and Jeffrey discuss the A List Apart redesign, responsive images and type, CSS Zen Garden, organic design processes, the future of CMS systems, designing a food truck app, and more. Links for this episode: http://monkeydo.biz https://twitter.com/mikepick https://twitter.com/murtaugh http://html5reset.org https://github.com/murtaugh/HTML5-Reset http://alistapart.com http://aneventapart.com This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com. Get 30% off any package with discount code “BIGWEBSHOW3.”

Jeffrey talks with designer, developer, author, lecturer, and entrepreneur Dan Cederholm (Dribbble, Simplebits). Links for this episode: http://aneventapart.com/speakers/dan-cederholm http://aneventapart.com/news/post/video-dan-cederholm http://www.abookapart.com/products/css3-for-web-designers http://simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/ http://www.amazon.com/Handcrafted-CSS-More-Bulletproof-Design/dp/0321643380/ http://astore.amazon.com/simplebits-20/detail/1590593812 https://twitter.com/simplebits Sponsored by Lynda.

Dalton Caldwell, CEO and co-founder of App.net, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in Episode No. 84 of The Big Web Show, sponsored by Happy Cog™.

We discuss Scott's latest thinking about “responsible responsive design,” whether responsive design is destroying creativity on the web, working with CSS flexbox, what’s new with the jQuery Mobile project, why people fear JavaScript and love jQuery, the size and management of Filament Group's multi-device test suite, the secret history of the jQuery logo, and much more. This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by Lynda.com, an online learning company with more than 77,000 video tutorials that teach software, creative, and business skills. Try lynda.com free for 7 days by visiting lynda.com/bigwebshow.

Cindy Chastain, Creative Director & Experience Strategist at R/GA—plus actress, screenwriter, and freelance strategist—is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in Episode No. 82 of The Big Web Show, sponsored by Happy Cog. Links for this episode: @cchastain R/GA Linkedin slideshare Lanyrd: bio Lanyrd: past speaking engagements Loveless – the movie Loveless – IFC review Happy Cog