The Big Web Show

In Episode No. 81 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tina Roth Eisenberg, creator of swissmiss and tattly and co-founder of Creative Mornings and TeuxDeux. The two designers discuss discovering your path as a designer; why the motto "let it go or fix it" can help you create great product ideas; how to be a good boss; and how having children can have a profoundly positive influence your career. Links for this episode: https://twitter.com/swissmiss http://www.swiss-miss.com http://teuxdeux.com http://www.creativemornings.com http://tattly.com http://www.studiomates.com https://twitter.com/jenmussari https://twitter.com/destroytoday http://destroytoday.com/blog/ http://www.gregstorey.com http://muledesign.com http://www.coudal.com http://decknetwork.net This episode was sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. http://www.aneventapart.com

In Episode No. 80 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Daring Fireball author John Gruber about his background in computer programming and journalism; the joy of designing print layouts with QuarkXPress and the transition from print to web; why investors who are angry at Apple have it wrong; why some web standards geeks who once passionately disliked Apple have grown warmer toward the company; and the secret story behind the name, "Daring Fireball." Links for this episode: Daring Fireball

In Episode No. 79 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"), host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews CSS guru, Microformats co-founder, O'Reilly and New Riders author, and An Event Apart co-founder Eric A. Meyer (@meyerweb) about upcoming CSS modules including grid layout, flexbox, and regions; his career trajectory from college graduate webmaster to world-renowned author, consultant, and lecturer; founding and running a virtual community (CSS-Discuss); becoming an O'Reilly writer; the early days of the Mosaic Browser and The Web Standards Project's CSS Samurai; "The Web Behind" variation of The Web Ahead podcast, and more. Links for this episode: http://twitter.com/meyerweb http://meyerweb.com http://aneventapart.com http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/ http://css-discuss.org http://microformats.org This episode of The Big Web Show is sponsored by Shutterstock.com. Get 30% off any package using discount code BIGWEBSHOW1.

In Episode No. 78 of The Big Web Show ("everything web that matters"), Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Margot Bloomstein, author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement (Morgan Kaufmann, 2012), about her professional transition from design to content strategy; the vagaries of the consulting life; how mentoring and non-traditional academic backgrounds can fit into a web career; how to write a content strategy book for people who are not content strategists; and the beauties of Pittsburgh. Links for this episode: http://appropriateinc.com http://appropriateinc.com/book/ https://twitter.com/mbloomstein This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com, where you’ll find over twenty million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Get 30% off any package using discount code bigwebshow11.

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews returning guest Sarah Parmenter (.net magazine designer of the year) about designing an app for the homeless; the challenges of multi-device design; teaching HTML and CSS to young people; designing an extremely high-profile multi-platform, multiple magazine newsreader app; the ideal number of employees for a small design studio; Brooklyn vs. Leigh-on-Sea; steeping yourself in platforms you don't use personally; her role as a judge in an upcoming British TV series about design and technology; the increasing complexity of digital design; comping, collaborative, and presentational tools and processes; and more. Links for this episode: http://www.sazzy.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/sazzy http://www.youknowwhodesign.com/ http://dribbble.com/sarah http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/44 This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com, where you’ll find over twenty million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Get 30% off any package using discount code bigwebshow11.

Author of four classic web design texts (in 13 editions) Jennifer Robbins (@jenville) chats with Jeffrey Zeldman about her upcoming Artifact Conference for multi-device design; why sites are now systems, not pages; how style guides can function as a system design description tool; getting digital UX design into its natural habitat (hint: not a comp) sooner than later; what's new in web design and the 4th Edition of Learning Web Design; and more. Links for this episode: http://learningwebdesign.com/books.html https://twitter.com/artifactconf http://artifactconf.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/JenRobbins/designers-and-code-and-workflows-and-stuff-14900090 This episode is sponsored by Shutterstock.com, where you’ll find over twenty million stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. Start your search at Shutterstock.com to find that perfect image for your website, ad, publication or any other creative project.

Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, discusses what it's like to be an internet entrepreneur with host Jeffrey Zeldman in Episode No. 75 of The Big Web Show. Links for this episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Williams_(entrepreneur) http://evhead.com/ http://twitter.com/ev http://twitter.com/ http://medium.com http://blogger.com Today's episode is sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. aneventapart.com

In Episode No. 74 of The Big Web Show, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks, CodePen, and ShopTalk about the path from employee to media maven, upcoming secret features for CodePen, coping with Retina images, finding sponsors, the success of his Kickstarter campaign, tee shirts for manly men, Twitter dramas about baseline grids, and lots more. Links for this episode: http://codepen.io http://css-tricks.com http://shoptalkshow.com http://jsfiddle.net http://www.realthread.com http://css-tricks.com/lodge/ https://twitter.com/chriscoyier This episode is sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. http://aneventapart.com

In Episode No. 73 of The Big Web Show, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews content strategist and author of "Content Everywhere" (Rosenfeld Media, 2012) Sara Wachter-Boettcher (@sara_ann_marie) about how practitioners can organize and structure content to maximize its value, longevity, and future-friendliness. Links for this episode: http://twitter.com/sara_ann_marie http://rfld.me/content-everywhere http://sarawb.com http://contentsmagazine.com http://unsuck-it.com http://content-science.com/clout-the-book http://www.amazon.com/Content-Strategy-Work-Real-world-Interactive/dp/0123919223 http://www.abookapart.com/products/the-elements-of-content-strategy http://www.abookapart.com/products/content-strategy-for-mobile This episode of The Big Web Show is brought to you by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. Dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design for 3 days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference for you. Find out more at aneventapart.com.

With the return of the Big Web Show, this week Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with web pioneer Derek Powazek, Founder and CEO of Cute-Fight, the online game for real-life pets and the people who love them Links for this episode: http://powazek.com http://powazek.com/about/ https://twitter.com/fraying/ http://cute-fight.com http://www.zeldman.com/2012/09/06/powazek/ http://fertilemedium.com http://www.zeldman.com/15/derekf.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraying/ Sponsored by A Book Apart

In this episode, Jeffrey speaks with founding partner and CEO of Readability, Richard Ziade. Links for this episode: https://www.readability.com/about http://blog.readability.com/2012/06/announcement/ http://readlists.com/ http://826valencia.org/ http://www.knowbility.org/ http://arc90.com/ https://www.readability.com/policy-faq/ https://twitter.com/#!/richziade Sponsored by An Event Apart.

Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Dan Benjamin about his career and life journey leading up to the creation of 5by5. Links for this episode: Cork'd Playgrounder Dan's first broadcasting rig [photo] Dan's Bio Dan Benjamin on 5by5

In Episode No. 69 of The Big Web Show, Happy Cog creative director Chris Cashdollar (@ccashdollar) and Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) discuss the joys and challenges of redesigning typography mega-site Fonts.com; nimble versus waterfall; process versus inspiration; running a creative department that is interactive in every sense of the word; the two sides of a design education (learning and teaching); fostering collaboration; and the transition from doodling eight-year-old to graphic design student to interactive creative director. Christopher Cashdollar is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer with 12 years of interaction design experience. He is currently the Creative Director for Happy Cog Philadelphia, and an adjunct instructor for Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. Links for this episode: Fonts.com Beta Articles by Chris Cashdollar Chris Cashdollar on Dribbble Happy Cog PhilaMade

Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Tantek Çelik, web standards lead at Mozilla. Links for this episode: "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem Restyle W3C: Towards a More Usable Spec Template hCard 1.0 Specification The Vendor Prefix Predicament: ALA’s Eric Meyer Interviews Tantek Çelik Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need Mozilla WIKI Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik Interview – Tantek on the importance of web standards Why IE5/Mac Matters BrowserID IndieWebCamp

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