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Front-end architect and speaker Mina Markham is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Mina discusses her career path, her work at as a senior engineer at Slack, how she came to create the Hillary Clinton UI pattern library “Pantsuit,” her time at IBM, helping others and inviting women of color into STEM fields, becoming a public speaker in spite of deep introversion, a recent South African safari, air travel, conferences, the joys of visiting Italy, and more. Enjoy a relaxed and illuminating glimpse into the life of a private and highly creative person. Links for this episode:Mina Markham, DeveloperMina Markham on Twitter (@minamarkham)Mina Markham on GitHubMina Markham on LinkedinSassy StarterFront Porch ConferenceSlackSlack on TwitterMina's storyBuilding Pantsuit – the Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott HanselmanBlack Girls Who CodeGirl Develop ItBrought to you by: Blockstack (The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work and we'd love to have you, learn more and get started at blockstack.org/bigwebshow).

Legendary computer scientist, web standards pioneer, and indie-web proponent Tantek Çelik is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. The secret history of standards in our web browsers. How web standards moved from academic ideas that sometimes couldn't even be implemented to the foundation of our modern web. The rift between standards-oriented, CSS-and-accessibility-loving web developers and those who rely on powerful and sophisticated toolchains: can it be bridged? The Flash years and today. Indieweb tools and the independent web community: what it's about and how to get started. Readers versus social readers. Taking back privacy and the ownership of our content. Links for this episode:Tantek Çelik (@t) | TwitterTantek ÇelikTantek Çelik - Wikiwand5by5 | The Big Web ShowIndieWebMicro.blogMicrosub - IndieWebreader - IndieWebBrought to you by: Blockstack (The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work and we'd love to have you, learn more and get started at blockstack.org/bigwebshow). Robinhood (Robinhood is giving you FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio. Sign up at bigwebshow.robinhood.com).

Founder and business development consultant Joe Rinaldi (That Was Clutch, Philamade, Bureau of Digital) is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Agency and freelance networking, mining contacts for work, honesty in client services, what they don't teach in design school, the value of having worked in service. Links for this episode:@joerinaldi on TwitterJoe Rinaldi on LinkedInThat Was ClutchBrought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year). Green Chef (For $50 off your first box of Green Chef, go to GreenChef.us/bigwebshow).

Why do companies de-prioritize accessibility? Making a digital map accessible to the blind. Pros and cons of the straw test. Why simulating a disability is not the same as working with disabled people. Using Twitter threads to prototype book chapters. How diversity (including neurodiversity and diversity of ability) makes for a better product. Changing small habits in your life leads to changing big ones. Links for this episode:Derek Featherstone (@feather) | TwitterLevel Access - Digital Accessibility Software, Services, Training - Level AccessExtreme Design by Derek Featherstone—An Event Apart VideoAccessibility for Web DesignUX Foundations: AccessibilityGucci blackface sweater: Gucci removes $890 "blackface" sweater, apologizes after receiving backlash - CBS NewsTranscript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (MS Word)Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (Accessible PDF)Brought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year). Robinhood (Robinhood is giving you FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio. Sign up at bigwebshow.robinhood.com).

Coder, writer, composer, and founding developer of WordPress Matt Mullenweg is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Open Source will save us. The WordPress 5.0 rollout. When Matthew met Jeffrey. Browsers in the age of Blink. AMP & HTML. Gutenberg: blocks and key commands. IE5. Box models. Google: still doing no evil? Links for this episode:Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) | TwitterMatt Mullenweg – Unlucky in CardsBlog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS — WordPressAutomatticBlog — WordPressBringing UX to an open source platform: Redesigning WordPress - studio.zeldmanProgressive Web Apps  |  Web  |  Google DevelopersAMP on Google  |  Google DevelopersThe State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (late 2018)The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (2019)The Tail End - Wait But WhyBrowser diversity starts with us. | Zeldman on Web & Interaction DesignBrought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year).

Basecamp founder, New York Times best-selling author, and web software pioneer Jason Fried is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. The two discuss Jason's latest book (co-authored with David Heinemeier Hannson), It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work, which The Economist called “by far the best thing on management published this year.” Also: the secrets of Basecamp, the magic of sleep, the sameness of agencies' portfolio sites, why Basecamp doesn't user test, and more. Note: We apologize for Jeffrey's audio quality in this episode, but Jason Fried says so many smart things we decided we had to share this conversation anyway. It's worth it! Links for this episode:Jason Fried (@jasonfried) | TwitterBasecamp: Project Management & Team Communication SoftwareIt Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780062874788: Amazon.com: BooksThe 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999)Jason Fried – MediumSignal v. NoiseJason Fried (Author of Rework)Jason Fried | Speaker | TEDAmazon.com: Remote: Office Not Required eBook: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Kindle StoreRework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780307463746: Amazon.com: BooksGetting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman: 9780578012810: Amazon.com: Books

Web design pioneer, Clearleft chief executive, and UX thought leader Andy Budd chats with Big Web Show host Jeffrey Zeldman about the failings and triumphs of our design community over the past 20 years, why the success of design thinking killed the market for design studios, and how to reinvent your studio or agency for today's market. Links for this episode:Andy Budd | ClearleftAndy Budd::BlogographyAndy Budd (@andybudd) | TwitterStrategic Design & Innovation Consultancy | ClearleftHomepage | UX London 2019UX London (@UXLondon) | TwitterHome New York | Leading Design Conference 2019LeadingDesignConf (@LDconf) | TwitterDigitalBrighton (@DigitalBrighton) | TwitterBrought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). CacheFly (Learn more at http://5by5.CacheFly.com)

Jeffrey MacIntyre, a long-time independent UX consultant and researcher specializing in thoughtful digital personalization, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. The two Jeffreys discuss personalization and its intersection with AI, the business opportunity of responsible personalization, aligning personalization with business operations, the secret history of berry picking, the value of a good taxonomy, personalization versus customization, avoiding the “creep” factor, and much more. A worthwhile episode for business executives and marketers as well as the designers and coders who serve them. Links for this episode:Bucket | Personalize with poise.Product Strategy for Content Initiatives | PredicateThe Design of Browsing and Berrypicking TechniquesTwitter - Jeff MacIntyreBucket (@ThisIsBucket) | TwitterBucket StudioBrought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations). Linode (Visit the link and get $20 credit when you use promo code 'bigweb2018').

Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O'Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more. Links for this episode:Hi, I'm Jason | Responsive Web TypographyResponsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: BooksVariable Fonts | Responsive Web TypographyThe evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web TypographyAbout Jason | Responsive Web TypographyJason Pamental (@jpamental) | TwitterVariable Fonts Experiments - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePenThe New School: Year One — PentagramDavid Jonathan Ross (@djrrb) | TwitterBello | TypekitAn Event Apart: Orlando 2018 Special Edition Web Design & UX ConferenceFigma: the collaborative interface design tool.Design with web fonts in the browser - TypecastAmbientLightSensor - Web APIs | MDNJason Pamental – MediumJason Pamental on CodePenjpamental (Jason Pamental) · GitHubJason Pamental (@jpamental) • Instagram photos and videosvery able fontsBrought to you by: .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations).

Katel LeDu, Co-founder of the No, You Go podcast and CEO of A Book Apart, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Topics include: Getting comfortable putting yourself out there when you're really more of a behind-the-scenes person. Starting a podcast. The life of a photo director at National Geographic. Asking for help. Community outreach—diversity and inclusion. What it's like to have your therapist as a guest on your podcast. Leading by example. Walking the walk. Finding new authors and new voices. Imposter anxiety and narcissism. Links for this episode:No, You Go – A weekly podcast about ambition, friendship, and feminism.Posts – No, You GoA Book Apart, Brief books for people who design, write, and code.Katel LeDû (@theledu) | TwitterNo, You Go (@noyougoshow) | TwitterBrought to you by: .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations). Linode (Visit the link and get $20 credit when you use promo code 'bigweb2018').

The new season of The Big Web Show gets a running start with the brilliant and delightful Rachel Andrew, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, co-founder of Perch and Notist, author of over 30 books including The New CSS Layout, and more. Rachel and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss learning to say no, productivity hacks, finding the inspiration to write and the courage to begin public speaking, the latest news with CSS Grid Layout, leaving Apple hardware behind, and the pleasures of Pixel. Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).

Jen Simmons—Designer Advocate at Mozilla, creator of Firefox Grid Inspector, host of Layout Land and The Web Ahead, member of the CSS Working Group, coiner of Intrinsic Web Design, and general force of nature—is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Everything we thought we knew about web design just changed. Making sites that sing. Designing with the viewport in mind. A time-based storytelling journey. Real whitespace on the web. Real designer/developer tools: the Shapes Editor, Grid Inspector, and next-generation fonts panel in Firefox. Links for this episode:Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) | TwitterLayout Land - YouTube - YouTubeJen SimmonsTry New Browser Features in Pre-Release Versions | FirefoxJen Simmons | LabsLayout LandTranscriptBrought to you by: Simple Contacts (Get $30 off your contacts at Simplecontacts.com/bws or enter code BWS at checkout).

Kevin M. Hoffman, VP Design at Capital One, and author of Meeting Design, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. “Design is not the end result.” How to assert control when you feel powerless. This one weird trick that can resolve conflict in difficult meetings. The relationship between meetings and change. Hacking your meetings, hacking your company culture. Five kinds of bad meetings. Escaping our biases, assumptions, and patterns. How illustration changes writing. A Jeff Veen joint. Designing an environment that lets people succeed. How design is like music and why you are not Prince. A new way of writing a book. Links for this episode:Kevin M. Hoffman (@kevinmhoffman) | TwitterMeeting Design - Rosenfeld MediaMeeting Design · An A List Apart ArticleKevin M. Hoffman - Rosenfeld MediaCapital One (@CapitalOne) | TwitterFacilitating Great Design · An A List Apart ArticleKick Ass Kickoff Meetings · An A List Apart ArticleMatt Sutter Books - List of books by Matt SutterBirthday StreetMatt Sutter (@mSutters) | TwitterBrought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).

UX and IA pioneer Peter Morville, founder of Semantic Studios and author of four major design books discusses his latest, Planning For Everything, with host Jeffrey Zeldman. When Peter Met Lou, “Peak chaos,” belief bubbles, why the dichotomy between planning and doing is false, how to plan a family vacation swimming with sharks, striking a balance between planning and improvisation, and more. Links for this episode:About Peter MorvillePeter Morville (@morville) | TwitterSemanticsAmazon.com: Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and GoalsBrought to you by: An Event Apart

Creative director, advisor, designer, developer, author (Pricing Design), speaker, mentor, musician, and entrepreneur (SuperFriendly, SuperBooked) Dan Mall is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Running a studio, pitching, value pricing, the apprentice program, “Make Grunt do it,” how to start a startup, “the most exciting design systems are boring,” walking away from big pitches, launching a service to help you find work. Links for this episode:A Book Apart, Pricing Design“How to Scope Work,” an article by Dan MallSuperBookedDan Mall (@danmall) | TwitterBrought to you by: Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).

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 EsslMike Essl (@essl) | TwitterWelcome | The Cooper UnionBorn 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: BooksAmazon.com: Watching the Watchmen (9781848560413): Dave Gibbons: BooksThe 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 — ProPublicaProPublica Data StoreDavid Sleight (@stuntbox) | TwitterStuntbox – Design and strategy of the finest cut.ProPublica (@ProPublica) | TwitterInside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly — ProPublicaBombs in Our Backyard — ProPublica5by5 | The Big Web Show #66: David SleightBrought 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 TwitterBig MediumBrought 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 LandThe Web AheadJenSimmons.comLearn CSS Grid | Jen SimmonsThe Web Behind: Videoblogging with Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi | The Web AheadAn Event Apart News: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart videoAn Event Apart News: Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart VideoJen Simmons (@jensimmons) | TwitterBrought 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:AboutSarah Parmenter (@sazzy) | TwitterSarah Parmenter – MediumSarah Parmenter (@sazzy) • Instagram photos and videosAn Event Apart: Denver 2017 Special Edition Web Design & UX ConferenceThe New Macbook Pro with TouchbarOath's advisory board has Serena Williams as chair and Russell Wilson, Chuck D and Karlie Kloss as members | FierceCableSuperDuper!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 StoreOld Honda Commercial from the late 80's - YouTubeBrought 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 (@bramstein) | TwitterIndra Kupferschmid (@kupfers) | TwitterA Book Apart, Webfont HandbookVariable Fonts for Responsive Design · An A List Apart Blog PostFonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.Font Face Observer — fast and simple web font loadingTypographicaAlphabettesThe Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible designIntroducing OpenType Variable Fonts – John Hudson – Mediumfont-display - CSS | MDNBrought 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 StartupsHow to Make Onboarding Engineers a Competitive Advantage | GitPrime BlogVice's Director of Mobile Apps Ben Jackson is creating his own startup advisory firm | TechCrunchNotion – Docs, Wikis, Tasks. Seamlessly in one.Anatomy of a Snap Attack | The New YorkerGamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers: Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo: 8601300354866: Amazon.com: BooksGuide to Service Blueprinting — Practical Service DesignBrought 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) | TwitterA Book Apart, Animation at WorkInvite userWeb Animation WeeklyLightning Design SystemRachel Nabors - WikiwandBarba.jsDevTools ChallengerDesigning Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart ArticleBrought 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 | ClearleftCSS Mastery: Amazon.co.uk: Andy Budd, Emil Björklund: 9781430258636: BooksAndy Budd: BlogographyAndy Budd (@andybudd) | TwitterBrought 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 CultureAmazon: Cultivating a Creative CultureiTunes: Cultivating a Creative Culture@theculturebook on TwitterJustin Dauer on Twitter: @pseudoroomPseudoroom.comMedium: Creative Culture@pseudoroom on InstagramThe Creative Culture PodcastBrought 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, UKA Book Apart, Color Accessibility WorkflowsResponsive Web Design · An A List Apart ArticleGeri Coady on Twitter: @hellogeriBrought 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 : BioDraftNickD.orgNick Disabato on Twitter: @nickdBrought 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 NotesCoudal PartnersCoudal Partners Film & Video ArchivesCoudal Partners' Layer Tennis Presented by Adobe Creative CloudBrought 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) | TwitterProPublicaMinority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk - ProPublicaTrigger Warning An Unbelievable Story of Rape - ProPublicaProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold MedalBrought 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).

Dan Brown is a web designer who specializes in IA, design research, and leading teams. He's written three books: Practical Design Discovery (2017), Designing Together (2013), and Communicating Design (2011), and created a card game, Surviving Design Projects, to help designers practice conflict resolution. Dan and his business partner Nathan Curtis co-founded DC-based UX design firm EightShapes in 2006. What is discovery and why is it important to design? What's the difference between Discovery and UX Strategy? or Research? How can you sell Discovery to organizations and people who are afraid of it? How has design changed since you got started in the 1990s? Links for this episode:Dan Brown on TwitterEightShapes.comDan Brown on MediumGreenOnions.com/booksDan Brown - EightShapesGreenOnions.comBrought to you by: BlueApron (Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow. FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

CSS Grid Layout is in Firefox and Chrome, and coming to Safari. Jeffrey Zeldman talks about the new spec with one of its foremost advocates, Rachel Andrew – a web developer, writer, and public speaker from Bristol, UK. Rachel is a member of the CSS Working Group, a Google Developer Expert, the co-founder of the Perch CMS, the publisher of CSS Layout News (a weekly collection of tutorials, news, and information on all things CSS layout), and the author or co-author of countless articles and 30 books, including Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout, A Pocket Guide to CSS Modules, The Profitable Side Project Handbook, and HTML 5 For Web Designers, 2nd Edition. Links for this episode:this is rachelandrew.co.uk - the website of web developer, writer and public speaker Rachel AndrewRachel Andrew (@rachelandrew) | TwitterCSS Grid Guides on MDNA Book Apart, Get Ready for CSS Grid LayoutCSS Layout NewsPublished books authored and co-authored by Rachel AndrewPerch - The really little content management system (CMS)CSS Grid lands in Firefox 52Podcast episodes featuring Rachel AndrewThree years with CSS Grid LayoutGrid LayoutMy presentations - subjects I speak about and links to resources, video and slidesBrought to you by: Incapsula (Just visit Incapsula.com/BigWebShow and enter the code BIGWEBSHOW to get one month free). FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

Have front-end and UX separated as practices? Is the time of the designer/coder over? The great Jen Simmons (Mozilla, CSS Grid, Layout Land) is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in a sharply focused episode of The Big Web Show. Links for this episode:Twitter: @jensimmonsJenSimmons.comLayout LandMozilla: Internet Health Learn CSS GridTheWebAhead.netMeetup.com: CSS-Layout-Club EventBrought to you by: BlueApron (Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/bigwebshow. FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) interviews designer/entrepreneur/author Jaimee Newberry (@jaimeejaimee), co-founder of Picture This Clothing, Tiny Challenges, and WWDC Girls. Launching a company that goes viral; applying design principles to your life; “it's not about what's next, it's about what's important;” coping with burnout; the psychology of change; “we've accidentally spent $20 on marketing;” and more. Links for this episode:Picture This Clothing - Wear your Imagination!jaimee newberry (@jaimeejaimee) • Instagram photos and videosSPEAKING — @jaimeejaimee#tinychallengesWWDCGIRLS (@wwdcgirls) | TwitterMade by MartianCraft.Brought to you by: Incapsula (Just visit Incapsula.com/BigWebShow and enter the code BIGWEBSHOW to get one month free). FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews George Hahn (georgehahn.com), writer, actor, web designer, and self-made thousandaire in hot pursuit of sartorial stealth and effective living. Writing tweets for Joan Rivers, doing a nude scene in “Sex and the City,” getting paid and finding clients as a designer, is the web still a people's medium, leaving New York for Cleveland, web design then and now, “They'll find out I'm a fraud and a failure,” will web ever get to retire? Links for this episode:GeorgeHahn.comGeorge Hahn FacebookGeorge Hahn TwitterGeorge Hahn InstagramGeorge Hahn YoutubeSpotify - George HahnBrought to you by: FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Craig Hockenberry (@chockenberry), web and Mac software developer for over 20 years, and author of Making Sense of Color Management (A Book Apart, 2016). Screen evolution, color profiles, writing the first color gamut media query, how Webkit queries your screen to understand how many colors you can display, the Android problem, the 10th anniversary of Twitter, the 10th anniversary of the first Twitter app, the history of the word “tweet,” computer desktop customization in the 1990s, web design then versus now, and much more. Brought to you by: Incapsula (Just visit Incapsula.com/BigWebShow and enter the code BIGWEBSHOW to get one month free). FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/bigwebshow and enter BIG WEB SHOW in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section). Wix (Just go to Wix.com and create your stunning website today.)

Host Jeffrey Zeldman chats with front-end developer extraordinaire Brad Frost, author of the new book Atomic Design. In a freewheeling romp through a wonderland of design and technology references, the two web pros discuss Pattern Lab and style guides, being there for the iPad launch, working with big brands, how to say no and make the client happy you said it, avoiding antipatterns, mobile versus “the real web” in 2009, dressing for success, contributing to open source projects, building a community, the early days of Brad's career, and that new book of his. Brought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow). Incapsula (Just visit Incapsula.com/bigwebshow and enter the code BIGWEBSHOW to get one month free).

Host @zeldman checks in with frequent guest @sazzy to discuss blogging, design, social media consulting, Britain, America, speaking, travel, and, oh, yes, that election. Brought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow). Incapsula (Just visit Incapsula.com/bigwebshow and enter the code BIGWEBSHOW to get one month free).

Jeremy Osborn is the Academic Director of Aquent Gymnasium, an innovative MOOC for designers, developers and marketing professionals, and the author of popular books on web technology and design software, including his latest, HTML5 Digital Classroom. He and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the rapidly changing landscape of modern web design; how to keep learning and stay inspired; remembering the human being you're designing for, and the joy of stress cases. Links for this episode:JeremyOsborn.comTwitter: Jeremy OsbornWeb Design is Hard w/ Jeffrey Zeldman and Aaron Gustafson Books by Jeremy OsbornThe GymnasiumBrought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow).

Kate O'Neill is a tech humanist, author, keynote speaker, consultant, web design veteran, former Nashville songwriter, and the author of Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces. Kate and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss Integrated Human Experience Design; the biggest opportunities for innovation, for profit, and for moving culture forward; working at Netflix; conversion optimization; Peter Drucker in the 21st century; and whether she has seen Daredevil in her adopted neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Links for this episode:Kate O'Neill (@kateo) | TwitterAmazon.com: Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces eBook: Kate O'Neill: Kindle StoreAbout Kate O'Neill - KO InsightsKate O'Neill – Profile – Medium(9) Kate O'Neill - Consultant, Author, SpeakerBrought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow) Soylent (Get your first case of Soylent for 50% off when you start a subscription via the special link soylent.com/5by5.)

Glenn Davis is the creator of Cool Site of the Day; cofounder of Project Cool; and cofounder, Executive Committee member, and essayist for The Web Standards Project, which he also hosted. Glenn was a leading force behind Liquid Design, an approach that predates Responsive Web Design by about 20 years. He taught everyone how to do “DHTML” via his Project Cool tutorials. In the Silicon Valley from 1994 through the early 2000s, Glenn was a huge creative force. In a lively hour, Glenn and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss life before the animated GIF; “perceived bandwidth;” building their first websites; getting from Gopher to the web; SLIP and PPP connections; discovering UNIX; the story behind Cool Site of the Day; the battle for standards in our browsers; the web then versus the web now; and much, much more. Brought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow)

Art director June Kim and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the newly launched, search-focused redesign of Epicurious.com. Approaching design through the lens of utility. Looking outside your own product category when researching for a redesign. Quick view and other functions. What Netflix has to do with a recipe site. The founding of Epicurious as a website in 1995. How Instagram, Pinterest, and mobile devices have changed the way people interact with web content. The view from the 33rd floor of One World Trade Center. Finding inspiration in unexpected places. Brought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow)

Eric Meyer (@meyerweb), co-author of Design For Real Life, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Edge cases versus stress cases, identifying your assumptions, design pre-mortems, QA'ing for emotion, and more. Links for this episode:A Book Apart, Brief books for people who make websites.Welcome | Voice and ToneA List Apart: For People Who Make WebsitesAirline Tickets and Flights to Worldwide Destinations : Delta Air LinesBrought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow)

Aarron Walter and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss launching a design education initiative at InVision, building a UX practice at MailChimp, putting design at the heart of strategy, managing teams, the secret life of Walt Disney, and more. Aarron is the VP of Design Education at InVision. He founded the UX practice at MailChimp and is the author of Designing for Emotion and other books about design. Brought to you by: Bushel (Visit the link to learn more). Meh.com (Visit the link to check out their awesome daily deals!).

Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts; and author of How To Make Sense of Any Mess, a “brilliant introduction to information architecture” (Peter Morville) that is frequently purchased at Amazon with Don't Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things, the two classics of usable design. Discussed: why IA matters now more than ever, the difference between IA and content strategy (IA is building the vehicle, CS is putting fueling it and making sure it won't run out of gas), writing and designing a book, building agreement among stakeholders, “not having opinions, not having ideas of one's own,” IA's origins in language and structure, the fun of the IA Summit, the creation and growth of World IA Day, the joy of teaching, and more.

Rachel Andrew—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Topics include working with CSS Grid Layout, how Grid enables designers to “do something different” with web layout, why designers need to start experimenting with Grid Layout now, how front-end design has morphed into an engineering discipline, learning HTML and CSS versus learning frameworks, and the magical self-reinventions of David Bowie, RIP.

Longtime web developer, lecturer, and web standards evangelist Aaron Gustafson and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the newly published update to Aaron's best-selling industry classic “love letter to the web,” Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition (New Riders, 2015). Topics covered include: Aaron's superhero origin story as a creator of progressively enhanced websites and applications; "we're not building things we haven't built on the web before;" "creating opportunities for people outside your comfort zone;" development in the world of Node.js; "every interface is a conversation;" "visual design is an enhancement;" "interaction is an enhancement;" nerding out over early web terminal interfaces; Microsoft, Opera, and more. Save 35% off Aaron Gustafson's Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition when you enter discount code AARON35 at checkout. Links for this episode:About Aaron GustafsonAdaptive Web Design Second Edition (“95% new material”)Read the first chapter free (PDF)First Edition, May 2011 (read the entire first edition free) Web Standards SherpaNotebook: Aaron's blogEngagements: Aaron's speaking page, using Quantity Queries"Quantity Queries for CSS" by Heydon Pickering in A List ApartA List Apart: articles by Aaron GustafsonEric Meyer's "CSS Design: Going to Print" in A List ApartWhatsAppBrought to you by: Braintree (To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow) DreamHost (Visit the link to sign up and make sure to use the code THEBIGWEBSHOW395 at checkout and you'll get top rated web hosting for just $3.95/month and a free domain name). Thinkful (Learn to build websites & apps in 3 months and get 20% off when you visit Thinkful.com/bigwebshow)

Touch introduces physicality to designs that were once strictly virtual, and puts forth a new test: How does this design feel in the hand? Josh Clark's new book, “Designing For Touch,” guides designers through this new touchscreen frontier, and is the launchpad for today's Big Web Show discussion between author Clark and host Jeffrey Zeldman. In a fast-paced, freewheeling conversation, Josh and Jeffrey discuss why game designers are some of our most talented and inspiring interaction designers; the economy of motion; perceptions of value when viewing objects on touchscreen versus desktop computer; teaching digital designers to think like industrial designers (and vice-versa); long press versus force touch; how and when to make gestures discoverable; and much more.

Josh Koenig, Co-Founder & Head of Product for Pantheon Website Management Platform, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest in "An Infrastructure For Websites," Episode 138 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters.") Josh & Z discuss how the industry is evolving, how smartphones are driving web growth, integrating a pull request with a server, the connection of the web to real life (and the fact that it's no longer a meaningful distinction), the idealism of the early web, why technology doesn't solve human problems, why truly revolutionary change occurs only when new technologies fade into the background, and a future in which the back-end grunt work of website creation is automated. Josh Koenig is a Co-Founder and Head of Product for Pantheon, the website management platform for WordPress and Drupal. Prior to that he was a founder at Chapter Three, a web consultancy based in San Francisco. Josh has been involved in building the internet with Open Source and Free software for nearly two decades. Brought to you by Braintree (To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow).

Digital law specialist Heather Burns is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Heather is the author of The Web Designer's Guide to the Consumer Rights Directive, a “recovering web designer,” and the founder of a monthly ebulletin with digital law and policy news you need to know. She explains: “While I am not a lawyer, the legislators who create digital laws are not internet users, much less designers or developers. Therein lies the problem. I view my work on digital law and policy as an attempt to build a bridge between the two parties.” Heather and Jeffrey discuss absurd and unjust laws governing transactions on the web, including the birth of the EU cookie law (all 27 versions of it), the slow pace of government versus lightning internet development, and why web design and development need consultative status and a seat at the table. Links for this episode:About HeatherSanctimonious Claptrap: Absurd Quotations by Internet Lawmakers & Influencers?Web Dev LawWebDevLaw blogSafe For Work: VATMOSS and the Adult Industry@idea15webdesign@webdevlaw"The Law Is A Ass" – Charles DickensBrought to you by Braintree (To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow).

Jeffrey Zeldman's Big Web Show guest is front-end designer Maya Benari (@mayabenari), a leading contributor to the U.S. Web Design Standards. Recently launched, and deservedly much lauded, the U.S. Web Design Standards consist of open source UI components plus a visual style guide, and are designed to create consistency and beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites. Accessibility, semantics, and mobile-first responsive web design are baked in, right out of the box. Maya and Jeffrey discuss the genesis of the project, the teams behind the scenes, and why improving people's lives is sexier than building sandwich rating apps. Links for this episode:U.S. Web Design StandardsIntroducing the U.S. Web Design StandardsMaya Benari's WebsiteMaya Benari: Front End Designer18F Guides18FMaya Benari on GitHubGetting Started with U.S. Web Design StandardsBourbonBrought to you by Braintree (To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to BraintreePayments.com/BigWebShow).