For decades, ranking on Google was survival. Now ADWEEK reports that some of the biggest media businesses are not-so-quietly making plans to disappear from it. This isn’t just one angry newsp…

Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.

A directory of books by the former authors of A Book Apart

A striking humanist display font inspired by Alasdair Gray's distinctive type.It is inspired by the lettering created by the Scottish writer, artist and polymath, Alasdair Gray who The Guardian newspa...

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves can teach you.

Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.

Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

At Squarespace, many of our core products are built on web standards, and our engineers are constantly pushing the boundaries of the web’s capabilities. Occasionally, those boundaries reveal a limitat...

I can’t actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays don’t protect from lawsuits, either. Regardless...

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.

Less, but better? Not this week.

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.

Learn how to create an effective editorial calendar so you can write better content and manage your blog with less stress. Includes free template.

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…

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…

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…

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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 –…

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…

Explore how the AI era reshapes design language, emphasizing objective critique over subjective opinions for successful outcomes.

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...

“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 …

A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.

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 ...

Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.

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…

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...

The mission is to keep the web sustainable.

Assorted thoughts on slowly improving at designing type while working on a lowercase addition to Citywide.

Every designer has felt it: that pang of frustration when you’re asked to make a product worse. Maybe it’s hiding a feature behind a paywall. Maybe it’s adding extra steps to the sign-up flow to captu...

Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. 1Inspired by the success of PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver, our "Push!" story argued that Web browsers were about to become obsolete.