Non Breaking Space Show

CSS in Depth — Keith J. Grant

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Keith J. Grant stops by to talk with Christopher about his new book, CSS in Depth, and what he’s discovered about the design language of the web during the writing process.

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Time Jumps

0:50 How’d you get involved with the web?
2:45 What was your talk about at CSS Dev Conf?
4:10 Setting font sizes to pixels vs ems/rems.
7:50 What was the process for writing your book?
12:50 What CSS topics did you have to leave out?
16:10 Covering CSS grid and float in the same book?
17:10 What’s sub grid?
23:20 Why is CSS the most neglected part of the web stack?
26:30 What’s new about CSS that you learned writing this book?
28:00 Do you just port animations over to JavaScript now?

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Comic-Con, Scutoids, and Burnt Out Millennials

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent stops by the show to discuss with Christopher the winners of Comic-Con San Diego, the finding of a new shape, and the bittersweet tanking of social media companies Twitter and Facebook failing to grow revenue off our data.

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Time Jumps

2:05 Story #8 — Ranking San Diego Comic Con 2018 Trailers, From Worst to Best
24:10 Story #7 — Meet the 11% of Americans who don’t use the internet
35:20 Story #6 — Burned-out millennials are quitting lucrative jobs
42:10 Story #5 — Facebook’s forecast for the future looks suddenly bleak
47:15 Story #4 — Twitter shares drop 19 percent after reporting declining monthly active users
50:30 Story #3 — Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
55:20 Story #2 — Scientists discover a new shape and it’s been hiding inside your skin
59:10 Story #1 — Liquid water ‘lake’ revealed on Mars

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Erika Hall — Conversational Design

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Co-founder of Mule Design, Erika Hall, joins Christopher to talk about her new book, Conversational Design, and also about how Mule Design works with teams to communicate and design better and more collaboratively.

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Time Jumps

1:20 What is conversational design?
4:20 Conversations with robocalls
9:50 People still love websites.
13:10 Google and people are error tolerant unlike voice assistants.
16:00 A book about as much about content strategy as conversational design
18:00 How do you convince your boss to use this?
24:45 Delightful / delight as a design term is a controversial term these days.
31:20 How do you work with teams who create or discuss design systems into their products or services?
35:00 Research is often used for confirmation biases
39:30 People can sit next to each other and never collaborate
43:30 People often have a tacit agreement to not point out when higher ups doing something wrong
48:00 If it helps to have Mule Design come in and say the things people would get fired for saying, that’s a service we provide.
51:30 What are some signs that your company or culture is successfully clicking?
54:20 How can people find Erika Hall online?

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Simon St. Laurent — GDPR n' Roses

Wed, 30 May 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent joins Christopher Schmitt to discuss Amazon recording personal conversations, Uber closing self-driving operations, the rise of GDPR, the new “Solo” Star Wars movie, and Twitter mixing it up with politics.

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Time Jumps

1:51 Story #1 — Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation.
8:40 Story #2 — Baboon escapes cage at airport.
11:05 Story #3 — Uber closes self driving operations in Arizona.
18:50 Story #4 — The US is running out of bombs.
20:35 Story #5 — GDPR.
31:00 Story #6 — Star Wars’s Solo is out.
39:50 Story #7 — President can’t block critics on Twitter.
44:45 Story #8 — Look at your timeline 10 years ago.
48:50 Story #9 — Twitter’s rules for campaign ads.

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Simon St. Laurent — The Last Infinity Jedi Avengers (Deleted Scenes)

Mon, 07 May 2018 09:00:00 -0600

Christopher Schmitt and Simon St. Laurent talk about your cousin’s DNA and the legal system, Apple getting out of routers, Avengers Infinity War, getting off Google Analytics and Facebook, and Flickr getting bought by Smugmug.

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Time Jumps

1:50 Introductions
6:30 Story #1 — Relative’s DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA’s office says
13:40 Story #2 — Apple’s Done Making Routers
25:30 Story #3 — Avengers: Infinity War smashing box office records
46:50 Story #4 — Turning Off Google Analytics
1:02:02 Story #5 — Zuckerberg’s comments in front of Congress
1:09:15 Story #6 — Flickr gets bought by Smugmug

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Dr. Sean Brennan and Paul Schmitt — The Technology & Ethics of Self-Autonomous Vehicles

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Dr. Sean Brannon and Paul Schmitt. Dr. Brannon is Professor from the Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University; affiliated faculty to the Thomas D. Larson Transportation Institute (LTI); and Director of the Intelligent Vehicles and Systems Research Group. Paul Schmitt is Director of Automated Vehicles at MassRobotics and an invited expert to the White House on Autonomous Vehicles.

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Time Jumps

2:16 Introductions
3:50 The state of autonomous vehicles
7:50 Laying groundwork to prevent confusion (types of autonomous cars)
10:00 Level 5 vehicle updates
12:35 Challenges of level 5 vehicles
14:55 If level 4 (like Tesla) was popular enough, how would it effect traffic patterns?
15:40 What is platooning?
17:40 Rules for platooning.
19:50 Testing on real roads with real drivers.
21:40 Making eye contact with vehicless drivers.
25:10 Sharing information between vehicles with Dedicated Short Range Radios
28:55 How do you test driverless cars?
31:15 Training autonomous vehicles
33:40 We’re struggling with how safe is safe?
39:25 How to make people feel comfortable with autonomous vehicles
41:10 What kind of industries or niches can take advantage of autonomous vehicles?
47:30 Vehicles will have different apps and customizing them.
49:00 How will our road infrastructure change because of autonomous vehicles?
53:10 Developing landmarks and sensors on the vehicles
55:40 Human decision making is becoming the weak link.

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Brenda Storer — Practical CSS Grids

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Brenda Storer returns! Brenda is a Front End Developer and Designer at thoughtbot. She recently won Best Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2017 New Orleans. Her talk focused on the topic of practical CSS grid layouts.

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Time Jumps

1:40 Winning best of at CSS Dev Conf
4:50 Prepping for a talk on CSS Grid
11:00 What’s the difference between CSS Grid and Flexbox?
17:10 Do we need to use Bootstrap anymore?
26:25 CSS isn’t intuitive and CSS Grid helps make it easier to maintain.
33:20 Solving real problems with Grid first.
34:50 Pushing and testing the boundaries of CSS Grid
40:12 What tools did you use to help construct Grid?
41:25 Any complaints or issues with CSS Grid?
47:20 Any final suggestions for CSS Grid?
53:20 How can people find you on the internet?

Rachel Andrew — The New CSS Layout Technologies

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Rachel Andrew returns! Rachel is a sought out expert on web design layout technologies like CSS Grid and Flexbox, an invited expert to CSS Working Group, and author of several books. Her latest book, The New CSS Layout, is out now from A Book Apart.

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Time Jumps

2:05 Why did you write The New CSS Layout?
4:30 What do you think of CSS display table layout in 2017?
6:50 Any 3rd party item probably solves problems you’re not dealing with.
10:00 Are people not learning or writing CSS these days?
15:30 The challenges with CSS Grid.
17:38 Where should developers go for help?
20:00 What is a block formatting context?
24:50 Using CSS multi-columns.
28:00 Doing design without media queries
30:00 Source Order vs. Display Order
33:00 Views on fallbacks, feature queries
35:50 Future of non-rectangular grid elements
38:00 CSS Round display coming in the future
39:10 What is Perch CMS and how might people use it?

Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Time Jumps

2:34 What is a cyborg rights activist?
12:55 General Data Protection Regulation discussion.
17:30 A lot of us were lied to when we started out.
24:25 We’ve replaced the publishing industry with the behavioral advertising industry.
26:10 China has embraced capitalism as well.
35:50 How do we inform people about data security?
41:50 The revolving door, multistakeholderism, co-regulation, and a conversation with Eric Schmidt.
1:00:00 Mastadon and decentralized networking and the city of Ghent.

Jason Pamental — Variable Fonts & The Future of Web Typography

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Jason Pamental is the author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.

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Time Jumps

1:29 How was your CSS Dev Conf 2017 experience?
6:20 Is there a sequel to Responsive Typography coming?
7:30 Congrats on winning best of at CSS Dev Conf 2017
9:00 Can you explain what variable fonts are?
13:30 How do the savings come about using this technique?
17:00 Is variable fonts a separate, new file format?
20:20 Is a variable font a designation within WOFF2 or WOFF?
22:30 Can I export variable font from an existing font?
31:00 Building on the work of Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons
37:20 What’s browser support like for variable fonts?
41:50 Is @supports the key?
43:15 Anything else you’re excited about with variable fonts?
45:30 How can people get in touch with you if they have questions about variable fonts?

Best of NBSPtv — Volume 2

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0600

The Internet’s Christopher Schmitt is out, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the Best of Non Breaking Space Show. In this volume, hear about Matt Griffen landing Tim Berners-Lee as a guest star in his web documentary, What Comes Next is the Future; how Dan Jurgens and DC Comics created international news by killing off Superman, the first time; what the Big Bang looks like with Dr. Christine Corbett Moran; and learn why to avoid hourly billing in your business by Jonathan Stark.

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Time Jumps

1:17 Matt Griffin landing Tim Berners-Lee as a guest star for his documentary on web design.
7:54 Dan Jurgens on the original death of Superman. Well, what of the deaths anyway.
12:35 Talking with Dr. Christine Corbett Moran from the Antartica about the Big Bang.
19:07 Why to avoid hourly billing in your business with Jonathan Stark.

Simon St. Laurent — Discovery doesn't get Star Trek, iPhone X's Notch, Jeff Koons in Snapchat

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:00:00 -0600

Discovery doesn’t get Star Trek or maybe it’s the biggest con since Star Trek II? Meanwhile, iPhone X’s Notch changes how we view web design and more in this week’s Top (n+1) News Stories of the Week!

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Time Jumps

1:13 Story #7 — Star Trek Discovery launches.
14:13 Story #6 — Avatar’s papyrus font keeps Ryan Gosling up at night
16:24 Story #5 — iPhone X’s Notch
27:10 Story #4 — Equifax breach explained
36:12 Story #3 — Snapchat will put Jeff Koons’ art installations in augmented reality
42:30 Story #2 — New LG smartphone keeps mosquitoes away
43:38 Story #1 — Scientists win Nobel for explaining our body’s internal clock

Best of NBSPtv — Volume 1

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Christopher Schmitt is out, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the time Nicole Sullivan talked about how she read W3C specs for fun, Lou Rosenfeld trying not to start a war between IA vs. UX, and how Jessica Hische became a success.

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Time Jumps

1:19 How did Nicole Sullivan get into the industry?
8:49 Lou Rosenfeld, what’s the difference between IA and UX?
17:02 The story behind Jessica Hische’s Daily Dropcap Project.
23:15 Bonus Track: Dan Cederholm and Trent Walton.

Rachel Nabors — Web Animations API Tools

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Rachel Nabors has worked with Mozilla, the W3C, and Salesforce. Currently, Rachel is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge Team representing Web design and animation communities.

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Time Jumps

1:50 What’s cool about web animation API?
6:20 Does anyone still use SASS?
10:10 What is After Effects used for in web design?
17:24 Did we have Flash?
18:40 Comparing Greensock to the Web Animation API.
26:15 Does web animations have browser support?
28:55 Are there polyfills we can reach for?
30:00 Where should we be using animations?
34:35 The Only Coin example of animation.
44:40 What tools do you recommend for people getting into animation?
47:10 Where can people learn more about your books and courses?

Nathan Curtis — Deep Foundations of Design Systems

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Nathan Curtis co-founded EightShapes in 2006 and is passionate about interaction design, information architecture, and front-end development. He specializes in design systems consulting for teams large and small, regularly writing about and speaking at events worldwide. Co-hosting this week is Micah Godbolt, Senior Design Developer at Microsoft.

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Time Jumps

2:44 An introduction to Nathan’s background on the web.
3:50 Design systems are just catching.
4:50 What kind of deliverables would you give to clients back in the 2000’s?
7:20 What’s the next step in design systems?
9:40 It seems like we’re going to start quantifying everything we do inside a design system.
10:30 Automation helping generate code from design systems.
13:20 Working with the various javascript frameworks has changed design systems.
14:40 In the future we won’t have design system, we’ll have a system of systems.
19:30 Sharing design systems across large organizations with common components vs niche apps or websites.
21:30 Designers don’t have as much experience working collaboratively in a community environment.
25:00 Designers tend to be silod - what has been your experience?
29:50 In professional settings, designers with seasoning struggle when they aren’t made aware of the design systems.
31:34 Designers are looking to do the right thing.
33:00 Defending the designers.
36:10 Who’s actually controlling the knobs and dials?
38:30 It works but have you tested it on users yet?
45:50 Adding a research tab to the design system that’s available to everyone.
47:20 Sometimes you have to realize one team might have a completely different user base.
50:00 What goes into a system or not?
53:20 What are your tips for people who want to get a design system going?
56:40 How can people find you on the internet and get in design system conversations?

Laura Kalbag — Accessibility for Everyone

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Laura Kalbag is a designer from the UK. She’s one-third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, Laura works on a web privacy tool called Better. Her first book, Accessibility for Everyone, is published by A Book Apart.

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Time Jumps

2:30 How’d the idea for your book come about?
4:25 Is it an introduction to accessibility?
6:50 It’s more than just good HTML and CSS on websites.
11:00 Any techniques for convincing a team or manager to push for accessibility?
12:30 Diversity helps us understand that people use the web differently than us.
15:34 What other ways do people use the web?
18:40 Accessibility can be expensive but there are so many things you can do that are free.
20:38 Learning HTML better is a basic way to help accessibility.
21:48 A number of sites that rely on Javascript to click a link.
24:10 Websites taking over the browser scroll bar.
25:10 CSS is so easy to style elements like website buttons.
27:20 What services and tools are out there to help people with accessibility testing?
29:25 In order to have good UX, you need to have good accessibility.

Peter Nowell — SVG Sketch Workflows

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -0600

Peter Nowell is an independent designer, whose clients include Apple, Flinto, and Juice Shop. Peter is also the creator of Sketch Master, a set of online video courses for learning Sketch app.

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Time Jumps

3:30 Using Sketch instead of Photoshop in workflows.
10:45 What are your thoughts on training for the web?
14:39 I’m a big fan of exploring the tough bits of design.
17:00 Putting together a Sketch workflow course.
21:30 As humans we’re programmed to remember stories.
22:50 Why make your own SVG optimizer?
29:20 SVG is capable of so much more.
36:15 There’s a difference between tool based design versus marketing related design.
39:50 What would you recommend for people looking to move to Sketch from Adobe products?
46:20 It doesn’t look like a professional tool when you just open it up.
47:30 What Sketch plugins do you use day in/day out?
53:00 Abstract plugin for Sketch.
55:30 What are the advantages to using Abstract instead of using Github?
58:20 Sometimes the process shouldn’t be holy. It should be unique to each project.
1:00:00 The further along in a project I am, the less likely I am to add new code.

Dan Denney — JavaScript Developer Training

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Since 2008, Dan Denney has worked closely with designers and writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. He also founded the Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg, FL. After working as a front-end developer at Code School, Dan is currently unemployed so as to focus on building up his skills as a front-end engineer and find the right team.

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Time Jumps

2:14 How did you get into the web?
4:55 What was it about Future of Web Design that made it so special?
6:30 Naming things on the web is hard.
7:09 Did the Future of Web Design Conference make you excited to create your own conference?
8:20 What would you recommend to people who are interested in starting a conference?
10:30 Quitting a job and where to next?
13:20 Have you figured out what you don’t want to do?
17:30 What’s your feeling on the Javascript world we live in now in 2017?
22:20 Job postings are the bane of our industry.
24:45 Product designer is the new front end.
28:50 What tools or courses have you used to keep up?
32:30 Courses and tutorials fall out of date and are hard to keep up to date.
38:20 Have you experimented with VR or AR on the web?
40:40 What are the next topics or projects you’re looking to dive into?

Jina Anne and Micah Godbolt — The State of Design Systems

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Jina Anne and Michah Godbolt are back on the show, but together for the first time, to talk about design systems, how they are using design systems at their respective jobs, and what is the state of design systems.

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Time Jumps

2:10 What are design systems and what is the state of design systems?
7:25 History of implementing a design system in place at Salesforce.
11:01 What types of things can get stored in design systems?
15:00 What’s Micah’s history with design systems?
20:15 Design systems help build apps and projects that might not even be created yet.
23:20 Does Microsoft Fabric distribute components or is their one repo in use?
25:20 How beneficial is it for small companies to use design systems?
27:10 What are some good tests for determining a good design tool?
30:13 What do you see for the future of design systems?
37:00 Join the Design Systems Slack group.

Kirupa Chinnathambi — Animating the Web

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Kirupa Chinnathambi works as a Program Manager in the Web Platform team at Microsoft. His latest book, Creating Web Animations published by O’Reilly Media, examines how animations are made in today’s user interfaces.

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Time Jumps

1:50 What got you into the web?
4:40 Why write a book about web animations?
6:40 How do you define CSS transitions and CSS animations?
8:15 In order to maximize CSS do you need to have Javascript?
9:10 How much Javascript knowledge does someone need on today’s web?
10:30 What are some tips for making animations with better performance?
12:18 What would cause you to work with canvas?
13:20 What are the properties you want to avoid?
15:35 What if I position absolute within a nested div that’s positioned relative?
16:30 What tools would you recommend for testing performance?
17:15 What were your goals in writing your book?
21:55 What are your views on the CSS spec going forward?
27:10 When’s the sequel coming out for your FrontPage book?
29:40 How important is blogging?
32:10 Discussion of owning your content.

Lara Hogan — Public Speaking Training

Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Lara Hogan is an engineering director at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance and the coauthor of Building a Device Lab. Her latest book, Demystifying Public Speaking, tackles every step involved in taking the podium and delivering the killer presentation.

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1:38 Welcome to Lara Hogan
2:50 How did you get started on a book about public speaking?
6:40 A break though on how to handle Q&A sessions.
9:00 Why should people in tech give talks in the first place?
12:18 Shaping a talk becomes an everyday process.
17:25 Talks don’t happen in a vacuum.
18:10 Finding the right venues to speak at.
19:45 As a speaker you have to be very professional.
20:45 Having back up plans helps reduce your fears.
23:30 Event organizers should be letting you know expectations.
24:45 Words of wisdom for anyone thinking of public speaking.

Simon St. Laurent — Amazon's Best Week Ever, Apple's Self-Driving Cars, and Boeing's Self-Flying Planes

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Amazon has the best week ever. Meanwhile, we’re not good enough for Apple Maps, so Apple’s making self-driving cars? What could go wrong and more in this week’s Top (n+1) News Stories of the Week!

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1:46 #8 Amazon’s big week!
15:50 #7 Apple’s Self Driving Car is Real
22:06 #6 Bunny photos to ease relationships.
26:00 #5 NASA’s Kepler Discovers First Earth-Size Planet
29:45 #4 Roaming charges across the EU have been scrapped
31:50 #3 Google Trends as life advice
36:50 #2 Mozilla prize to decentralize the web
42:30 #1 Boeing will test self-flying planes

Dan Mall — What is Your Hourly Rate?

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Dan Mall returns! Dan is the director of SuperFriendly, a design collaborative, and author of a new book about the approaches professionals can take to valuing their project rates called Pricing Design, which published by A Book Apart.

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1:40 What’s Dan been up to since last we talked?
2:50 What’s Superbooked?
6:50 Freelancers struggle with pricing - how can we make it easier?
11:50 One trick Dan’s found is…
13:55 Once you’re comfortable, don’t ask about budget.
18:10 Try talking your client out of hiring you.
22:00 If you’re just starting out, use hourly. As you get comfortable graduate into value pricing.
24:20 What is cost plus pricing?
28:00 Profit comes from risk.
30:00 Salary negotiation is hard just like estimating a project.
31:30 Imposter syndrome kicks in even after success.
33:40 Using your friends as a sounding board.
37:50 When a proposal morphs into discovery phase - what do you do?
42:15 Design is a job.
43:50 How can folks find Dan Mall on the web?

Harry Roberts — The Tools of a CSS Front-end Architect

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect, writer, and speaker from the UK. Roberts is often asked for his advice by web teams to help make their CSS better organized and more efficient.

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3:40 Becoming a Google Developer Expert
5:30 What type of work do you normally do?
6:40 What does it mean to thrash things off?
7:40 When does someone hire an outside consultant?
8:30 Are you doing a lot of coding on projects?
11:11 What type of issues are clients calling you about?
14:10 What tips do you have to scale engineers to be able to understand CSS?
16:34 Only tell people what they want to hear.
18:10 What tools do you use?
21:40 Any tips on becoming a master of Chrome Dev Tools?
24:10 Can you have Canary and regular Chrome on one computer?
25:10 What does it mean to have CSS in Javascript?
31:15 What are web components and how can people benefit from them?
38:15 Your views on Sass vs Post-CSS?
39:35 Do most companies have responsive websites now?
42:45 Any advice for people who want to market themselves?
44:45 If you don’t have a blog, people cannot read your work at all.

Dan Brown — UX Design Consultant

Wed, 31 May 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Dan Brown is co-founder of EightShapes, a UX design discovery shop that serves clients in healthcare, education, not-for-profit and high-tech. He’s recently written a book called, Practical Design Discovery, published by A Book Apart.

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4:20 How long have you been working in the web industry?
7:45 What does it mean to give everyone a voice?
9:40 I want to have the hard conversations but you have to be willing to listen and be vulnerable.
11:10 Talking about the game Dan Brown has made.
13:10 Some of the techniques I’ve used to move situations forward are…
18:25 How did you get started with Eight Shapes?
20:40 Having a kid made the risk worth it.
21:20 Nathan’s doing great work on design systems.
23:20 Where do you see the future of design going?
28:25 In what ways did A Book Apart take care of you in writing a book?
30:40 The cover is a bit of a dad joke.
33:30 Do you still get a lot of blowback from clients these days?
35:50 What we need help with is we’ve got a big problem we don’t understand.
39:00 Frankensteining a project and amplifying feedback.
45:30 You still need data to back up your design decisions.
46:40 How can people get in touch with Dan Brown?

Sarah Drasner — The Guide to Designing SVG Animations

Tue, 16 May 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Sarah Drasner is an award-winning speaker, consultant, and staff writer at CSS-Tricks. Sarah is also the co-founder of Web Animation Workshops, with Val Head. She’s given a Frontend Masters Workshop on Advanced SVG Animations and is the author of SVG Animations. She’s formerly Manager of UX Design & Engineering at Trulia (Zillow). Last year Sarah won CSS Dev Conf’s “Best of Best of Award” as well as “Best Code Wrangler” from CSS Design Awards.

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2:50 Talking goats. Animating goats.
5:40 Explaining viewbox over Twitter
9:00 Learning what’s going on under the hood so you can troubleshoot it.
10:40 As long as people have maintenance as their core idea.
13:20 Both sides seems to think the other side is a junior developer.
15:40 One size fits all doesn’t work on the web very well.
18:30 Generalists to specialists to micro-specialists.
20:01 When I was starting you couldn’t just be the designer.
26:05 I remember a time when browsers could fit on a floppy disk.
27:49 Performance is what gets me so excited about SVG.
32:00 The importance of SVG and how it helps solve our problems.
34:50 You redid your site while you had the flu?
38:20 Are we allowed to talk about above the fold?
40:00 Why a performance budget of under 2s?
44:01 Chances are what you see someone put out isn’t their first attempt.
45:20 Sarah does not poop things from her brain.
46:01 How do you keep up with things that change on the web so quickly?
51:30 I was striving to make sure you have a few options when animating SVG.
55:00 How can people find Sarah Drasner on the internet?

Nicole Hallberg and Martin Schneider — Sexism in the Tech Industry

Mon, 08 May 2017 11:00:00 -0600

Nicole Hallberg and Martin Schneider swapped email address for a couple of weeks. Guess what happened? Join Nicole and Martin as they to talk about their experiences in dealing with and recognizing sexism in the tech workplace and suggestions for what can be done to improve the place of work.

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2:01 Introductions
7:50 The story behind Nicole and Martin’s experiences
14:30 Can you give an example of terminology you had to explain again and prove your expertise in?
18:00 What was the biggest takeaway from this experience?
19:20 Why couldn’t he just believe the women without having to experience it?
20:40 Was it data driven or was it just anecdotal stories?
22:50 What’s the drawback to admitting there’s sexism in the workplace?
28:24 What happened when you talked to your supervisor?
31:30 What if your boss had tried a different approach?
36:10 Adults, particularly men, don’t like being told that they’re doing something wrong.
41:58 All anger is borne of sadness.
43:00 Nicole’s story of standing up at a conference.
47:25 Don’t come into feminist spaces and expect everyone to change for you.
48:20 The other story is what happens after we told our story.
48:55 It’s not like the internet wrote me a check.
51:01 Codes of conduct at conferences.
1:00:05 Why hasn’t anyone done this before? It’s such a simple test.
1:02:35 What’s your podcast and upcoming appearances?
1:03:35 What’s it like to be internet famous?
1:07:02 What’s the simplest steps to take to make it easier for everyone in the workplace?

J.M. DeMatteis — Burying Spider-Man, Building Worlds

Wed, 03 May 2017 10:00:00 -0600

J.M. DeMatteis is an Eisner award-winning writer and editor with more than thirty years experience in comic books, graphic novels, television, film, and prose. He stops by the show to talk about his process, how things have changed in comics over the years, and the services he provides to help other writers.

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4:30 Brooklyn Dreams
5:35 How much of it was true?
7:55 What other stories do you consider in your top 5?
11:30 Following writers vs superheroes and characters.
12:50 Which superhero did you first write?
13:55 Is it easier to write a short or longer story?
14:45 Rules and regulations when Dematteis started writing.
15:50 How did you get into writing comics?
17:30 How long was your rejection period before you broke in?
19:10 What’s it like to take over writing for a superhero?
22:10 Using an outline for a workflow when writing?
26:12 The best stimulus for getting the work done is…
28:40 Putting all the pipe together to create a story that makes sense.
30:00 Writing for TV vs writing for a comic book.
33:10 Can you talk about the next movie for DC?
33:40 Batman vs Robin was the most fun gigs I’ve ever had.
34:50 Working on projects that don’t end up working well.
36:15 Justice League was almost too easy.
38:10 Thoughts on comic book page counts.
41:20 When a comic is over too quick…
42:20 Digital development of comics vs traditional development
46:20 How important is it to create your own work?
48:10 Other services that J.M. Dematteis provides.
49:30 What do the workshops look like?

Oliver Lindberg — Editing the Web Industry

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Oliver Lindberg is a freelance editor and content consultant, founder of the new Pixel Pioneers conference, co-founder and curator of Generate Conference, and former editor of Net magazine.

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2:01 Welcome to the show…
2:45 How did you get involved on the web and with .Net magazine?
4:00 Why .Net?
5:50 How would you describe the content of .Net when it was more of a internet fanzine?
7:17 How did you stay on top of events and news as an editor of technology?
11:40 How does someone become a speaker in our industry?
14:50 What tips would would you give to speakers for public speaking?
16:03 What goes into putting together an issue of Net magazine?
20:20 If someone is prolific at writing on their blog, they’ll likely be a good speaker.
21:58 How did you pick the cover story for magazines?
26:10 Talking about Pixel Pioneers conference.
29:10 What types of themes do you want to hit with Pixel Pioneers?
35:30 Any advice for running a conference?
40:13 What’s your craziest conference story?
46:00 I use spreadsheets more than I ever have before thanks to conference organizing.
47:05 Call for papers for Belfast papers is still available.

Simon St. Laurent — The Last Jedi Trailer, Burger King Hacking, Life in Space, and More

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

The state of Angular, Apple’s self-driving vehicles, parking spaces in space, American Dream is stuck in a rut, and The Last Jedi teaser trailer reaching over 20 million views.

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1:55 Nothing’s more important than this show, right?
2:10 #9 Signage at the Angular Conference.
15:40 #8 The state of Angular
19:30 #7 DMV grants Apple to test self driving software.
29:20 #6 The Post JavaScript Apocalypse
37:50 #5 Parking Space in Space
42:26 #4 Enceladus’ Subsurface Energy Source
48:20 #3 Burger King takes over your robot butler
53:44 #2 Why Americans Have Stopped Moving
1:02:50 #1 Last Jedi Trailer released

Whitney Quesenbery — Design as a Civic Responsibility

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Whitney is Co-Director of Civic Design and is an expert in user research, user experience, and usability, with a passion for clear communication. She’s the author of three books: A Web for Everyone, Storytelling in User Experience, and Global UX.

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1:43 What is Whitney up to these days?
2:44 What is civic design? What is the realm of civic design?
6:00 Why be a poll worker and its importance of?
7:15 How are you helping making poll working better?
8:00 What makes a better voter guide?
10:40 Was there quantifiable results?
12:45 What else does she work on? What type of training?
16:00 Story of government database being mixed up.
18:25 Provisional voting, how it works & election day registration.
20:35 Journey mapping a voter’s trip to the election day
23:20 The greatest way to get people to vote.
24:25 Any crazy ballot designs from recent memory?
26:49 What are ways to make voting more accessible?
28:03 Design course open to everyone?
30:40 Where can people find this Civic Design course?
33:02 What about open source voting systems?
35:03 How do you ensure you get all the input from all the people?
37:20 It’s hard to trust something when you don’t know what’s inside it.
37:55 Chris’ shoutout to Florida
38:40 How can people follow up with what’s going on?

Val Head — Designing Interface Animation

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Val Head is a web animation expert and author with a talent for getting designers and developers alike excited about the power of animation. She’s the author of Designing Interface Animation and teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com.

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2:30 Writing the preface is the worst.
4:03 Benefits of brain animation including transitions
6:07 Animation helping with perceived performance makes things seem like things are happening faster
8:01 Facebook content loading examples of perceived performance and perceived speed
9:00 Benefits of reducing content load, make it obvious what has changed on the screen
10:50 Bad form designs that take up too much of the page
12:30 Explanation of UI choreography - managing multiple animations and commonality of animations
16:09 Blocking animation is bad, it stops you from doing things while it’s animated.
17:40 Don’t hide layers people need to interact with.
20:30 Some examples of good animation that elevates the design, including brand identity.
23:31 Some examples of sites that are really good at freeze animation.
26:10 PayPal redesign compared to Stripe
28:00 How you go about thinking about instilling animation into your brand, app or website.
33:00 Recommendations on how to convince higher ups to integrate animation.
38:30 Where does someone start working more with animation? CSS?
40:02 Green Sock versus CSS.
41:02 Books or websites that would help you learn more about CSS.
42:40 What Java Script does that CSS can’t.
45:10 What’s covered in the workshops with Sarah Drasner.
46:50 How to connect or find more information about Val Head.

Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. — How To Get People To Do Stuff

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:00:00 -0600

Dr. Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral psychologist who has been working in the field of design and user experience. She is the author of How To Get People To Do Stuff, Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? and 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People.

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2:25 What’s a normal day for you?
3:45 Being a science advisor on a TV show.
6:40 YouTube stars vs. TV stars
8:55 How do self stories help people keep resolutions?
11:24 If you’re talking about making a big change in your life, habit will only get you so far.
12:30 What is an example of a self story?
15:20 They were editing their stories based on what other people had said they did.
16:40 Sometimes I’ll write out what I think my story is right now.
17:30 There’s always more than one way to look at a situation.
18:50 The way you describe your life has a huge effect on you.
20:50 Is the best way to do it to write it down?
24:01 Don’t lie in your story. Your story has to be grounded in reality.
30:00 Do you have personas on the project?
31:50 What’s a “deep interview?”
36:10 I had someone crying in an interview about hooking up a television.
39:00 What you need is the story from people.
41:30 Customer support and trust is a big deal on the internet
43:00 You’re not an expert because you don’t make this kind of purchase every day.
47:00 Chris’ Instantpot story
51:00 Susan’s tent story.
59:00 Would you spend $18,000 without details about your insurance?
1:01:45 How can people find you on the web?

Lainey Feingold — Structured Negotiation for Accessibility

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Lainey Feingold is the author of Structured Negotiation published by the American Bar Association that explores an alternative dispute resolution process she’s used throughout her work as a disability rights lawyer. Through structured negotiation, she has collaborated with Target, CVS, Major League Baseball, Wal-Mart, and many other organizations in representing disabled people seeking full participation that our society has to offer.

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2:25 How did you start the path to becoming a disability rights attorney?
4:50 What type of technology did they add to ATMs to make them more accessible?
6:50 What other companies have you done structured negotiations with?
9:09 Are there other ways for dispute resolution?
11:49 Can structured negotiations be used in business?
12:50 Who do you contact first if you have an issue?
14:40 Do people resist structured negotiations?
16:15 Is it unusual for companies to respond positively?
17:02 What types of issues have you run into?
19:04 What is the process with structured negotiations?
21:01 Do you bring outside experts as well?
22:07 Nobody likes to be told what to do so we give recommendations.
23:28 What type of skills and traits are needed to manage a structured negotiation.
27:40 What you do for your non-english speaking customers, you need to do for your blind customers.
28:50 How can I convince my boss to work in this way?
31:50 Increasing your potential customer base by building with accessibility in mind.
32:50 Showing appreciation for every small step along the way.
34:30 Positive press is more important than a lawsuit.
35:18 What are the characteristics that have made you a good negotiator?
37:37 How can people find your book?

Kristofer Layon — UX Design (Live from SXSW)

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Kristofer Layon is the Principal Interaction Designer at Honeywell. Before then, Kristofer directed the MinneWebCon in 2008 until 2011.

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4:50 What is your job title?
7:10 That’s when I really got into UX design.
7:55 The bar has been raised higher than when I started.
10:53 How would you define UX design?
14:45 We use a traditional usability lab occasionally.
15:33 Essentially we test early and often.
16:49 How would you know what to ask a user of your software?
20:01 One thing you don’t want to focus on is the interface itself.
22:00 Using an e-commerce site as an example.
24:30 The debrief can last as long as the testing.
24:45 How many times do you continue testing?
26:50 A rule of thumb is a small group of 5.
30:00 Less is more
32:15 I don’t script it but try and read the room.
33:25 It seems not sexy to prepare for a presentation but it’s one of the most important things we do.
35:10 The trick is to make it all look easy.
37:10 Everyone wants you to succeed as long as you’re earnest.
38:09 Compare and contrast working in college vs current job.
38:50 When you’re teaching the most basic things of design become really time consuming.
46:50 How can people find you on the internet?
47:59 Do you still like being a designer in Austin?
51:20 Is it worth it to wait in line for Franklin BBQ?

Steve Portigal — User Research War Stories

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Steve Portigal is the founder and principal of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy. Steve is the author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories.

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2:00 What made you decide to start publishing stories from the field?
6:50 How did you determine which stories were the best for the book?
10:00 Were the stories best served as a book?
15:40 How would you figure out if you need to go do interviews?
22:35 What does user research involve?
27:00 Interviewing is great for understanding why.
28:30 The hard part is trying to explain why humans are humans.
32:40 Context is important.
34:58 Don’t get drowned in data.
38:10 It reminds me of the Nielsen diagram I despise…
39:55 Where can folks buy the books?

Steve Krug — Advanced Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:11:00 -0600

A highly sought-after speaker, Steve Krug is a usability consultant who has more than 20 years of experience as a user advocate for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus, and others. He is best known for his book Don’t Make Me Think about human-computer interaction and web usability. His second book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a DIY guide for Finding and fixing usability problems.

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7:25 Introduction of Steve’s books
8:25 A discussion of mobile first
10:55 Did responsive design hurt web design?
16:20 Weatherbug as an example of a good app.
18:55 Double tapping on an article instead of responsive design as Steve Jobs intended.
21:00 Why don’t more people do usabilty testing?
26:00 Failed prediction: usability will never get to be a line item on budgets.
29:00 Reasons why you can’t predict the future.
30:15 6 maxims from Steve’s book
34:00 Making usability tests a spectator sport
35:10 How do I get buy in from my boss?
38:20 Making sure to have good snacks for usability testing.
39:10 What qualifies as a good snack for usability testing?
39:50 Focus ruthlessly on a smaller number of problems.
42:40 When faced with problems, do the least you can do.
44:50 Dealing with legacy sites.
48:15 Brundlefly
49:15 Getting lost in Home Depot
51:25 How difficult it is to keep a blog up to date.
54:05 Contributing to the walled garden of Facebook vs blogging
56:00 Where to find Steve Krug online.
57:10 LinkedIn dark pattern annoyance.

Hugh Forrest — Growing the SXSW Mega-Conference

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Director at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, Hugh Forrest has overseen it from its inception in the mid-90s to see it turn into a mega-conference, hosting a sitting President of the United States as keynote speaker.

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1:00 Launch in 28 days and they are on schedule
3:15 Weather is nice and weather conditions in Austin
5:07 Why did you decide to have multimedia with music?
6:40 What’s the comparison between music and interactive at SXSW?
7:20 Interactive portion is more appealing, but music is more attended
8:50 Interactive probably wouldn’t have survived without the music event.
11:00 70,000 people are projected to attend and future growth projections
12:20 Even though a lot of people attend, the creation is still the focus.
15:00 “Second Story” panel
15:45 The coolest thing you see at SXSW is something you weren’t even expecting
16:40 Hallway discussions that are completely unplanned, but they are sometimes better than the panel
18:01 How you get introverts in the industry to network?
19:45 How do you define a meetup?
21:30 Speaking submissions need to be submitted 8 months ahead of time. About 4,700 people request to speak.
23:50 Accounting for hot new technologies is part of the process.
25:10 The submission process was used only with Interactive, but migrated to music and film.
26:35 Video has to be submitted when requests are made to speak
28:50 So many people have a TED or TEDx video to look at.
32:12 5,000 max submissions that panel pickers go through, what the process is to weed out submissions and vote for submissions
33:05 What is the process for submitting a talk to SXSW Interactive?
38:45 What are unique challenges for SXSW?
42:25 How much effort was it to book President Obama last year?
45:15 SXSW is only a month away. Prices are at walk-up price now.
48:48 Bots are the new things that are going to be a big thing coming up
50:25 Wrap up and closing

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Dudley Storey — Using SVG

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Dudley Storey is a Smashing Magazine contributing editor, teacher and speaker, his new book Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 is scheduled to be released later this Spring.

This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:

SVG Summit — A full-day, virtual UX design conference on SVG that you can attend online on February 15th. Free recordings with registration at SVG Summit. Use discount code NONBREAKINGSPACESHOW for 20% off.
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3:05 The program that Dudley currently teaches about media
5:15 Learning about CD-ROMs in college.
6:35 HTML tables vs CSS layout in the old days
7:15 Dudley’s beef with hacker schools or code schools
9:05 It’s like you’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope
10:15 The host would like to see a certification course of semantic HTML and why
12:03 Dudley is still working for Smashing Magazine and is now also a technical editor.
13:55 What’s it like to be an editor for Smashing magazine?
15:10 You can put whatever you want on your blog.
16:03 Blogging versus magazine submission versus tweeting; when to use each
18:55 All of Christopher’s photos are on Flicker, but Flicker is becoming outdated. What to do next with the content.
20:01 Dudley built thenewcode.com as an accurate, consistent database on CSS Scripts and functions that is not out there yet.
21:50 Eventually Facebook will go away. People will lose a big portion of their lives when it goes away
24:30 When content is no longer accurate, Dudley goes back his website to update the data and an example of it
25:42 Technology going through growing pains.
27:50 Twitter for example has a lot of big community problems because sites simply want a lot of users then react to the problems after
29:59 Twitter has a social engineering problem.
31:02 A little bit about the book “Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5”
32:50 Description of SVG2 and how it relates to SVG
33:30 Strokes in SVG and SVG2
34:30 SVG is not an image format but is a document format
35:55 Plugins for everything.
36:45 How is book writing for the web and what is the process of it
39:10 The lightbulb moment when someone gets it.
40:01 The joys of helping people who understand things because of your book or teaching
41:21 Which portions Dudley is writing in the book, including SVG tools, CSS and SVG properties, SVG and interactive activities
42:40 SVG Export issues and challenges.
46:00 Discussion on the IE issue with width and height
47:00 A lot of the SVG presentation attributes are moved to CSS properties
49:11 Are standards current in modern browsers?
50:09 SVG animations and Green Sock animation library as well as native animation
51:20 What type of simple CSS animations could you do before you grab Green Sock?
52:30 SVG and data visualization
54:40 Preview of the book available right now

Jonathan Stark — How Much Should I Charge Clients?

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:11:00 -0600

The author of Hourly Billing is Nuts, Jonathan Stark, joins us to about charging clients what your worth or, what could be more beneficial, charging what the work is worth to your customers.

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4:01 Mobile strategy and credit unions
7:02 Credit unions need to attract a younger market
8:02 Host’s first job was in IT department of a credit union
8:30 Talk about “Hourly Billing is Nuts” book
9:40 Any project is going to have at least 3 parties involved.
10:50 The longer it takes the more it costs, hard to guarantee customer satisfaction with hourly billing
11:20 It’s almost impossible to guarantee customer satisfaction with hourly billing
12:50 Problems of hourly billing, as a programmer it’s hard to indicate your value by number of lines of code.
15:01 What made Jonathan think that hourly billing wasn’t the best way to bill
7:18 This is like a cancer inside our business.
17:40 Even streamlining hourly there is still bureaucracy left over because you are measuring the wrong thing
18:15 You can’t make more than $140,000 a year
19:20 It can work if you’re nailing your estimates every time
20:20 If you’re not ready to fire somebody, you’re not ready to hire anybody
21:05 How do you grade tests? How long you take or how many answers you get right?
23:05 How Jonathan started using value pricing; it was always about hours, then he tried out value pricing, income doubled
25:15 Value pricing is using a fixed bid instead of hourly price
28:03 Plug in that can be used for a project instead of building from scratch
31:55 How to dip your toes into the idea of stopping trading time for money
32:20 Create code libraries, invest in efficiency
38:00 Jonathan only does scope projects not the actual coding. But he will guide the coders.
39:40 3 categories of why - Why do this at all? Why now? Why me?
42:30 Use the clients words in your proposal.
43:00 Set price 1/10th of the business value
44:01 Give client a reason why you are more valuable than someone else, not just price
44:50 Jonathan has been using value pricing for 10 years
45:20 Book came out in July 2016
46:01 Side projects that Jonathan does; a product ladder
48:50 You can hire me to do the project or you can buy a video I made that teaches you to complete the project
49:50 You now have a pipeline for leads by having a book
51:01 Since you sold products before, you can inform them of your new projects later
52:50 Words of advice by Jonathan Stark; don’t jump in all at once and test this strategy first; take it slowly
54:30 How to purchase “Hourly Billing is Nuts”
55:50 How to contact Jonathan

Simon St. Laurent — Twitter Bots, Amazon VR Stores, and More

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:11:00 -0600

Twitter filled with Star Wars Bots; Amazon wants storefronts in virtual reality, the pain of numbering software releases, shady UX practices, and the most popular tech skills for the year, and the current asking price for 30 seconds of the Super Bowl™.

This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:

SVG Summit — A full-day, virtual UX design conference on SVG that you can attend online on February 15th. Free recordings with registration at SVG Summit. Use discount code NONBREAKINGSPACESHOW for 20% off.
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6:50 Introduction of guest
7:32 #8 OMG, Twitter is full of Bots
10:57 There’s a market for slightly used Twitter accounts
13:02 #7 Data shield down: Online privacy and data ownership
20:19 #6 Don’t be an idiot on the web; Dirty UX tricks and tactics
28:28 #5 Major software version number upgrades
34:03 Guest tweet about modules/components vs. pages
36:04 JavaScript is history
40:08 #4 Amazon looking to bring shopping into VR
47:46 #3 Superbowl ad prices and viewer ratings
55:17 #2 New iOS update helps find your missing Apple Airpods
1:00:01 #1 Fastest growing skills in the last quarter
1:03:50 Amazon web services
1:05:50 How Austin, Texas has changed

Brad Frost — Atomic Design

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:53:00 -0600

Brad Frost is the web designer who created the mental model of Atomic Design. He’s a sought-after designer, speaker, and consultant about responsive design. His new book Atomic Design explains the concept of modular design as well as how to position it in a workflow for multi-device web developers.

This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:

SVG Summit — A full-day, virtual UX design conference on SVG that you can attend online on February 15th. Free recordings with registration at SVG Summit. Use discount code NONBREAKINGSPACESHOW for 20% off.
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UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about frontend design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt.
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3:10 Introduction
3:40 Brad describing Atomic Design
5:01 5 Distinct stages of UI
8:02 Organisms and hierarchy of a webpage
10:40 Introduction of pattern lab
12:30 Pattern lab is really plain, you have to bring your own vision, it’s a workspace
16:16 UI Auditing, consistency and patterns of website forms
18:02 How to introduce people to change and convince them that change is good
21:04 Communication with boss, don’t ask permission because boss only cares about end result
23:30 We’re already doing things like Pattern Lab - we just need to be more aware of it.
24:35 Don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness after.
27:01 Don’t need to go vertical for approval, talk with your colleagues
29:01 29:30 Example of how responsive experience works
30:03 Approval by way of conversion instead of convincing
31:30 Working without boss approval to make a bank site responsive
33:01 Page concept is out of date and from process standpoint doesn’t serve it’s use
34:20 Keep language the same, call it a webpage, but make website an ecosystem not a printed page
37:05 Keeping things above the fold
38:03 Using open source for writing the book and book deployment
41:45 Contributions to the book from others
45:19 How to find the book
48:15 Ending the interview with thanks

CSS Dev Conf 2016 Wrap Up Panel — Open Source, Designers vs. Devs, Hiring, Job Seeking, and More

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:11:00 -0600

For our 2016 wrap-up episode, we’re presenting an exclusive recording of the traditional CSS Dev Conf 2016 Wrap Up Panel. As hour filled with lots of great questions from the audience for the incredible array of speakers.

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Lauren Golembiewski — Creating Conversational Smart Bots

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Product Design Director Lauren Golembiewski is co-founder of Voxable which builds conversational bots and voice interfaces.

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Simon St. Laurent and Chris Enns — Vine Closing, Twitter Buyer, Stranger Things, and More

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Vine is shutting down, who should buy Twitter, the story of Christopher dancing as Chewbacca, the cons of a MacBook Pro, CSS Devconf recap, Stranger Things and binging on Netflix, and walking away from The Walking Dead.

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Mat Marquis — JavaScript for Web Designers

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Mat Marquis is Chair of the Responsive Issues Community Group, technical editor at A List Apart, a former member of the jQuery Mobile team, and editor of the W3C HTML5 specification. His book, JavaScript for Web Designers, was recently published by A Book Apart.

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Matt Vanderpol — Online Craftsman

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Matt Vanderpol helps companies and agencies craft custom WordPress themes with an emphasis on content maintainability, performance, and responsive behavior.

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ATX Web Series Film Q&A — Bridging the Gender Gap

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:11:00 -0600

A special Non Breaking Space episode: Live Q&A session from the first ever ATX Web Film Series presentation. ATX Web Film Series aims to provide thought- and discussion-provoking films about the Web, Design, and Technology.

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Nick Pettit — Indie VR Game Developer

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:11:00 -0600

From Austin, Texas, I’m Christopher Schmitt and on this episode, I’m joined with Nick Pettit. Nick is a teacher at Treehouse, an online web education company. He is also an independent virtual reality (VR) game developer. On November 15th, he releases his first major game called “Neptune Flux,” which can be experienced on VR headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR. There are also non-VR variations of the game that can be played on PC, Mac, and PlayStation 4.

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Peter Olson — Creative Technologist

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Peter Olson is Director and Creative Technologist at IDEO. Before he joined IDEO, Peter was the founder of and served as a Vice President of Technology for Marvel Entertainment’s Digital Media Group.

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Q&A Panel from the World Movie Premiere of “What Comes Next is the Future”

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:11:00 -0600

For this episode, we have the Q&A panel after the world premiere of Matt Griffin’s documentary, “What Comes Next is the Future.” The premiere took place at Code & Supply’s Abstraction conference in Pittsburgh, PA on August 18th. Panelists included Matt Griffin, Jeffrey Zeldman, Mat “Wilto” Marquis, and Val Head.

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Cecy Correa — From Project Managing to Coder

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined by Cecy Correa, who is an Associate Software Engineer at Return Path and is a co-organizer for Refresh Austin, a monthly web and mobile design and development meetup.

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Glenda Sims — Web and Mobile Accessibility + ARIA

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined once again by Glenda Sims. Glenda is the Accessibility Practice Manager at Deque Systems helping to define accessibility and lead over 50 experts on staff.

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Dan Jurgens — Killing Superman, Saving Worlds

Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined by Dan Jurgens. Jurgens has been involved with writing and drawing comics for over 30 years including Superman, Green Arrow, Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, and countless more as well as managing fellow creatives working on their own books for mammoth crossover events.

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Chris Coyier — Practical SVG

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined again by Chris Coyier. Publisher of the CSS Tricks community site, Coyier recently authored Practical SVG from A Book Apart.

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Wes Bos — ReactJS for Beginners

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt speaks with Wes Bos. Wes is a site and web applications’ Designer, Developer, Speaker, and Teacher — probably most recognizable for his online courses such as Sublime Text Power User and React For Beginners.

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Simon St. Laurent — Pokémon Go Mania, Telsa’s Masterplan, CSS, and SVG

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined with Simon St. Laurent. We’re talking the CSS Containment property, SVG book by Chris Coyier, Pokemon Go, Telsa’s new masterplan, ComicCon, and the Star Trek: Beyond movie.

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Dr. Christine Corbett — Astrophysics in Antartica

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this episode, Christopher Schmitt talks with Dr. Christine Corbett. Dr. Corbett works on the South Pole Telescope on-site at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 with the University of Chicago.

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Dave Olsen — Pattern Lab 2

Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:11:00 -0600

In this show, Christopher Schmitt talks with Dave Olsen, programmer/ project manager with West Virginia University, about the recent release of Pattern Lab 2. Pattern Lab helps teams build thoughtful, pattern-driven UIs using atomic design principles.

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Ben Brown — The Revenge of Bots

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Ben Brown stops by the show for an update on bots as well as some news on a conference for bot enthusiasts to check out or submit a talk to coming up in Austin, Texas.

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Scott McCloud — Media and Their User Interfaces

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Scott McCloud joins the show to talk about his new book, Sculpture, movies he’s enjoyed lately, his upcoming book on visual communications, presentation styles, old media vs. new media, and how comic book writing and design has changed.

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Bruce Floyd & Todd Sanders — Social Media

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:11:00 -0600

While social media replaced the cultural tradition of inviting friends over for dinner and then subjecting them to a slide show of your vacation, it’s more than that to organizations and companies. It’s communication, promotion, boasting, customer service, brand awareness, and more. Bruce Floyd is the Social Media Manager at University of Florida Athletic Association and Todd Sanders is Director of Social Media at University of Florida. While one covers student athletics and the other covers academia and campus life respectfully, together they cover largest portions of the University of Florida’s social media brand. We ask how they handle social media for two similar, but distinctly different parts of Gator Nation.

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Rachel Andrew — The Future of CSS Layouts

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Rachel Andrew returns as our guest. She’s an author, international speaker, product is a web developer, speaker, co-founder of CMS Perch. She’s recently been writing and speaking about the future of web design layouts: CSS Grids and Flexbox.

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Matt Griffin — What Comes Next is the Future Documentary

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Based in Pittsburgh, Matt Griffin is a designer and founder of the web design consultancy Bearded. He’s a speaker, writer, educator, and an avid advocate for collaboration in design. His writing has been published by net magazine and A List Apart, where he writes the regular column on “How We Work.” Matt is the director of the upcoming documentary film What Comes Next Is the Future, the definitive documentary about the web as told by the people who build it each day. The film premiers August 2016.

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Simon St. Laurent — Google I/O Fallout, Instagram Logo, WordPress' age, and More

Tue, 31 May 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent from O’Reilly Media joins us for a look at the past week as get caught up on technology news, web building resources, and social commentary. Making our countdown list for what we found interesting in the world this week - Google I/O fallout, Instagram logo redesign, making CSS great again, saving your life with typography, WordPress is a teenager, and conference advice!

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Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman — Learning UX Design

Wed, 25 May 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman is a designer, speaker, author, educator, and co-founder of Center Center, a user experience design school based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Leslie shares her research and thoughts on design, learning, leadership, and community through writing and speaking. Leslie is creative director and co-author of the book, InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design. She writes articles for publications such as A List Apart, The Pastry Box, Ladies in Tech, and .net Magazine. She speaks at events such as Build, Converge, SXSWi, Madison+, Blend, UXCamp DC, In Control, Fronteers, A Web Afternoon, and Web Directions South.

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Bright Umbrella — Thriving a Business

Tue, 17 May 2016 12:11:00 -0600

The co-founders of Bright Umbrella, a web design and development agency, are Emily Lewis and Lea Alcantara. We talk about THRIVING a business—going BEYOND superficial marketing and sales language to talk about what worked and what did not as they grew profitable and happier.

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Wren Lanier — Designing for New Media

Tue, 10 May 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Wren Lanier is a senior product designer, speaker, and writer based out of Durham, North Carolina. Designer and strategist with a passion for creating beautiful digital products, Wren specializes in mobile design, user interface design, lean UX, information architecture, team leadership, and product strategy.

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Sean Vanaman — Making of Firewatch

Tue, 03 May 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Sean Vanaman is a video game designer, writer, and podcast host. He was the co-project leader and lead writer of The Walking Dead, and Puzzle Agent 2. Sean co-founded the new video game company, Campos Santo, and their first game, Firewatch, is a first person adventure that centers around the character, Henry, a man whose love life is in free fall, takes a job as a fire lookout in the Shoshone National Forest.

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PixelJam — Indie Game Developers

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Based out of Asheville, NC, Miles Tilmann and Rich Grillotti make up the leadership of PixelJam, an indie game development company. Since 2005, they’ve created their own video games mostly in the retro pixelation format that defined the look and feel of 1980s console games such as Gamma Bros., Dino Run, and PotatoMan Seeks The Troof. However, some games have other visual styles like Glorkian Warrior, show they can shed the retro feel and still make an engaging game. They’ve also produced mobile games for late night cable station, Adult Swim, such as Hipster Kickball and Pizza City.

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Micah Godbolt — Frontend Architecture for Design Systems

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Micah Godbolt is a frontend architect, trainer, and speaker based out of Portland, Oregon. Micah has a book that has been recently published by O’Reilly Media called Frontend Architecture for Design Systems.

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Tammy Everts — Web Performance

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Tammy Everts has spent the past two decades obsessed with the many factors that go into creating the best possible user experience. As a senior researcher and evangelist at SOASTA, she researches the technical, business, and human aspects of web/application performance.

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Arianne Stiles — Submitting Talks to Conferences

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:11:00 -0600

From Austin, Texas, we talk with Arianne Stiles, ½ of Environments for Humans. Environments for Humans produces over a dozen of virtual front-end and UX design conferences every year as well as the first web builder conference for CSS, CSS Dev Conf, which is coming up this October in San Antonio, Texas.

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Simon St. Laurent — SXSW Interactive, Fluent Conf

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:11:00 -0600

While Christopher Schmitt endures the SXSW Interactive invasion of Ausin, Texas, Simon St. Laurent returns from this year’s Fluent Conf. They both talk about tech trends they saw from their respective points of view.

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Zell Liew — Responsive Typography

Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Zell Liew is a writer, freelance web designer & developer based in Singapore. His down-to-earth articles — especially those recently published on the topic of responsive typography — make it easier to understand for both designers and developers.

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Allison Wagner — Career Path to UX Developer

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Allison <3’s CSS. She has worked at Happy Cog as a UX developer for over 6 years, building sites for high-profile clients such as Nintendo, MTV, Harvard, Ben & Jerry’s, and Shopify. She specializes in architecting custom front-end frameworks designed to scale and integrate. She lives in Philadelphia and enjoys traveling, outdoor running, and #konmarie in her spare time.

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Chris Enns — Podcasting

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:11:00 -0600

This week we talk to Chris Enns, a freelance web designer and podcaster. He runs his own solo web shop Lemon Productions from Saskatoon, Canada, as well as produce shows for the Goodstuff.network podcast network.

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Simon St. Laurent — Building the Greatest Everlasting Sandcastle

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent is back to talk about #Snowpocalypse, camera drones in NYC, the legacy of our work, and owning your own stuff —except for those conversations we have on Facebook. We take a look at what we saw this past month in the web space (and more) and what we think is happening on the horizon as we slip further into 2016.

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SVG Summit 2016 — Building with SVG Q+A Round Table

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:11:00 -0600

The Round Table from the SVG Summit has hosted by CSS Tricks’ Chris Coyier. It’s both a recap of the SVG Summit talks that happened before it and a Q+A panel with some special guests from the SVG community.

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Brenda Storer — Making It and SVG

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Brenda Storer is a Designer & Front End Developer at ThoughtBot and Instructor at Girl Develop It.

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Jeffrey Zeldman — Web Design History

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Web designer and author, Jeffrey Zeldman, publishes A List Apart Magazine, A Book Apart, co-produces An Event Apart, and hosts the Big Web Show. He writes at his blog, Zeldman.com.

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Sarah Drasner — SVG and Animation

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:11:00 -0600

Sarah Drasner is an award-winning Senior UX Engineer at Trulia and a staff writer at CSS Tricks. Recently, she won Best Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2015 aboard The Queen Mary.

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CSS Dev Conf 2015 Wrap Up Panel - Tools, Browsers, CSS Specs, Polyfills, and More

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:11:00 -0600

For our 2015 wrap-up we’re presenting a special recording of the CSS Dev Conf 2015 Wrap Up Panel with lots of great questions from the audience for the amazing array of speakers.

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The End of the Year Holiday Special 2015

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:11:00 -0600

We gather together to share some figgy pudding and talk about the things we’re proud of from 2015 with special guest stars: Ethan Marcotte, Greg Storey, and Molly E. Holzschlag!

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Simon St. Laurent — JavaScript, SVG, and The Web

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent is back to talk about the rise of JavaScript, SVG, and we take a look at what we saw this past month in the web space (and more) and what we think is happening on the horizon as we slip into the new year.

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Rachel Ober — Crafting Valuable Conferences

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Rachel Ober is a developer who specializes in Front End and Ruby on Rails. She’s also the co-founder of Write/Speak/Code, whose mission is to empower women software developers to become thought leaders, conference speakers, and open source contributors.

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Jonathan Cutrell — CSS Attribute Design and Level 4 Selectors

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Jonathan Cutrell is Director of Technology at Whiteboard, an interactive design and development firm. He also hosts of Developer Tea podcast. We talked about his experience speaking at CSS Dev Conf, his podcasts, and Whiteboard.

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Annette Priest — UX Tools and Gadgets

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Annette Priest is a UX strategist and experienced designer and researcher. Her work spans device types and industries: mobile, IoT, health, travel, communications, security, finance, and government. She stops by the show to talk tips for UX research and tools you should have along.

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Ben Brown — Bots and Slack

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Ben Brown from Austin, Texas joins us to talk about Howdy - a bot he’s building for the popular Slack communications tool.

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Simon St. Laurent — Tech, Drama News

Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:11:00 -0600

This week we have Simon St. Laurent, Chair of the Fluent Conference. We talk about about latest news in the web building world and anything else that’s caught our eye.

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Elyse Holladay — SassConf and Other Nerdy Things

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:11:00 -0600

This episode we have Elyse Holladay. Elyse’s been at Sass Summit and also a local Austenite—very glad to get a chance to talk to her today. We talked about organizing a physical conference, how she got into the web, of course, passion for work, and diversity in conferences, new speakers, a lot of topics.

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Sam Richard — Sass, Front-end Development

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Sam Richard, UI Architect for IBM Watson, part of the awesome design team, where he waxes philosophical about Sass+Compass, Responsive Web Design, Drupal, Photography, and, on occasion, bacon. Richard got his start with the New York State Senate and the World Economic Forum which instilled a great love for Open Source, Open Government, and an Open World, which caries on to this day.

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Matt McGee — Search Engine Optimization

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Matt is the Editor-in-Chief at Marketing Land & Search Engine Land so we pick his brain about all things SEO - the white hat side SEO. And what’s up with all those Pandas that Google keeps releasing?

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Margot Bloomstein — Brand & Content Strategy

Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Margot Bloomstein joins Christopher and Sam to talk about content strategy for your brand, website, or new corporate marketing white papers.

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Dramatic Readings by Programmers of Bug Reports (Live at SXSW)

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:11:00 -0600

For our special 50th episode, we provide you with the amazing team-up of the wonderful Sam Richard, UI Architect Watson at IBM Corporation, and your host, Christopher Schmitt. Sam and Christopher had the privilege of speaking at SXSW! They took on infamous bug reports and forum discussions around the Web the only way one can : dramatic reenactments!

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Simon St. Laurent — Ad Blockers and the Web

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:11:00 -0600

Simon St. Laurent joins Christopher to talk about content blocking, cookies, and publishing on the web in 2015 all prompted by the recent additions to iOS 9 on iPhones and iPad and El Capitan on the Mac.

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Micah Godbolt — Front-End Architecture

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:11:00 -0600

A regular code contributor and speaker at worldwide open source events, Micah Godbolt is highly involved in teaching and training new developers, sometimes as a guest lecturer at local colleges. He leads a Sass and front-end meetup in Portland and publishes a weekly video blog called Sass Bites.

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Steve Fisher

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:11:00 -0600

Our talk with Steve Fisher covers the gamut of content strategy, project discovery and open source projects. Sam gets lost in Encarta and Christopher has issues with Canadian pronunciations of words.

GitHub

[Austin Center for Design

An educational institution in Austin, Texas, teaching Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship](http://www.ac4d.com/)

Red Deer College
Collection
[Rosenfeld Media Content Everywhere](http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/content-everywhere/)
GDC: Graphic Designers of Canada
TEDxRedDeer - Steve Fisher - What Can We Learn From Open Source - YouTube
Hello Fisher - Steve Fisher - Content Strategist and Responsive User Experience Design for the Web
[Yellow Pencil Future Friendly Web Design & Development](http://www.yellowpencil.com/)
Style Tiles
Interactive Style Tiles - The Republic of Quality Blog - Republic of Quality
[Brad Frost Web Web Design, Speaking, Consulting, Music and Art](http://bradfrostweb.com/)

[Our New Responsive Design Deliverable: The Style Prototype

Sparkbox

Web Design and Development](http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/our_new_responsive_design_deliverable_the_style_prototype)

Republic of Quality - Responsive Web Design Process
The Shape of Design - A book by Frank Chimero

[Anatomy of a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design

Brad Frost Web](http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/mobile/anatomy-of-a-mobile-first-responsive-web-design/)

CodePen - Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser
Encarta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The open source way
Karen McGrane - Confab Events
Steve Fisher (hellofisher) on Twitter(hellofisher)

Jen Simmons

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for this episode is Jen Simmons and your hosts Christopher Schmitt and Sam Kap talk with her about where we’ve come from and where we’re going with the web. It’s changed a lot and it continues to change.

2013 Year End Spectacular with Dave Rupert

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:11:00 -0600

For our annual year end spectacular we invited Dave Rupert, 1/3 of Paravel, over to chat with Christopher and Sam about what they saw in 2013 and what we can expect in 2014. We also check in with a couple of past guests, Rachel Nabors and Jonathan Snook, about the year that was and the year that will be. Pour yourself some rum and eggnog, find a mistletoe and kiss your podcast player while you bask in the 2013 Year End Spectacular from The Non-Breaking Space Show.

Paravel
Trent Walton
E4H
Carl Smith
Remote by 37Signals
Captial Factory in Austin, Texas
Evernote
CSSDevConf
Mailbox.app
Social Notworking by Brad Smith
Slow television
Star Trek The Next Generation 24hr Background Noise
Jonathan Snook
Brad Frost
SASS
Grunt.js
Accessibilty Project
HealthCare.gov
Shop Talk Show
@davatron5000
Dave on Github
@samkap
@teleject

Jeremy Keith

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Our talk with Jeremy runs the gamut of the web - progressive enhancement, depending on a database, sirens, the death of web services, the telegraph, transcriptions, CERN and preparing for a great talk.

Jared Spool — UX and Design Thinking

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Jared Spool is a writer, researcher, speaker, educator, and an expert on the subjects of usability, software, design, and research. He is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering, a research, training, and consulting firm specializing in website and product usability, and the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world.

Karen McGrane

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:11:00 -0600

If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than fifteen years Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. She founded Bond Art + Science in 2006, and has led content strategy and information architecture engagements for The Atlantic, Fast Company, Franklin Templeton, and Fidelity. Previously, Karen helped build the User Experience practice at Razorfish, hired as the very first information architect and leaving as the VP and national lead for user experience. There she led major design initiatives for The New York Times, Condé Nast, Disney, and Citibank, and managed a diverse team of information architects, content strategists, and user researchers. Karen teaches Design Management in the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, which aims to give students the skills they need to run successful projects, teams, and businesses. She is also VP of digital for consulting and venture capital firm Ignite Venture Partners.

Shawn O’Keefe

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Shawn Michael O’Keefe is at the forefront of emerging technologies as a producer for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Beginning his passionate journey into technology at the University of Texas at Austin, he focused on convergent media in the innovative and unconventional Advanced Communications Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) before joining the SXSW team in the year 2000.

Jonathan Snook

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Jonathan Snook is a web designer and developer who is currently a product manager at Shopify. Before Shopify, he worked at Yahoo! as part of the team that redesigned and rebuilt the communication suite of products: Mail, Messenger, Calendar, and more. Before that, he freelanced for almost 5 years working with fantastic clients on fun projects doing design, front-end development, and back-end development.

Christian Heilmann

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He’s been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers. He’s written two and contributed to three books on JavaScript, web development and accessibility, lead distributed teams as a manager and made them work with one another and released dozens of online articles and hundreds of blog posts in the last few years. He’s been nominated standards champion of the year 2008 by .net magazine in the UK and currently sports the fashionable job title “Principal Developer Evangelist” spending his time going from conference to conference and university to university to speak and train people on systems provided by Yahoo and other web companies that want to make this web thing work well for everybody. We talked with Christian usability, accessibility, running a conference, tips on becoming an evangelist and mailing floppy disks around the world. And they pour one out for Google Reader.

Val Head

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for this episode is Val Head who is a designer and consultant based in Pittsburgh where she works with agencies and small businesses to make fun and effective web sites.

Scott Kellum

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for this episode is Scott Kellum who is a designer at VOX Media creating beautiful features for The Verge and also worked on SB Nation and Polygon.

Matt May

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:35:00 -0600

Our guest for this episode is Matt May who is a developer, technologist, and accessibility advocate at Adobe.

Matt May is a developer, technologist, and accessibility advocate who is responsible for working internally and externally with Adobe product teams and customers to address accessibility in Adobe products, ensure interoperability with assistive technologies, and make customers aware of the many accessibility features that already exist in Adobe products.

Prior to joining Adobe, May worked for W3C/WAI on many of the core standards in web accessibility, led the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, helped to architect one of the first online grocery sites, HomeGrocer.com, and co-founded Blue Flavor, a respected web and mobile design consultancy.

May is an accomplished speaker, having presented at dozens of conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW Interactive, CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Podcast and Portable Media Expo, and the International World Wide Web Conference, to name just a few.

His book, Universal Design for Web Applications, co-authored with Wendy Chisholm, was published by O’Reilly in November 2008.

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Daniel Ryan — Re-electing Obama

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Daniel has been working in the web industry since 1997 and currently consulting, open sources, and speaking at various conferences.

Rachel Nabors

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Rachel Nabors is self-employed front-end developer and UI engineer. She works on bringing the insights of comics and cartoons into the field of web development.

Giovanni DiFeterici

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Gio has a BFA in painting and has completed a degree in graphic design. He is an accomplished illustrator and designer. He’s a designer at Period Three, a web design firm in Columbia, South Carolina. He also helps organize the web conference, ConvergeSE, and has is own podcast, Draft. He’s also the author of The Web Designer’s Roadmap from Sitepoint.

Glenda Sims

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Glenda Sims is an accessibility consultant, speaker, author and trainer for Knowbility, a non-profit whose mission is “barrier free IT”. She works at Deque where she is a Senior Accessibility Consultant. There she shares her expertise and passion for the open web with government, educational institutions, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. She performs hands on web accessibility assessments, develops accessibility roadmaps and strategies, and consults with developers and designers.

@goodwitch on Twitter
Glendathegood.com
Deque.com
Glenda on LinkedIn
Glenda Watson Hyatt
Penn State Accessibility
Lainey Feingold Disability Rights Legal Advocacy
Federal Judge Rules that ADA Covers Web-only Businesses like Netflix
#a11y search on Twitter

Dan Mall

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Dan is an award-winning designer from Philadelphia, an enthralled husband and dad. He’s the founder & Design Director at SuperFriendly, co-founder of Typedia, and co-host of The Businessology Show – a podcast about the business of design and the design of business. Dan was formerly the Design Director at Big Spaceship, Interactive Director at Happy Cog, and a technical editor for A List Apart. He writes about design and other issues on Twitter and danielmall.com.

Modern.ie
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The Businessology Show - a podcast by Dan and Jason Blumer
Brad Frost The Post-PSD Era
Daniel Mall - The Post-PSD Era
Samantha Warren’s Style Tiles
Reading is Fundamental Design
Superfriend.ly Annual Report
Harvest
Xero
Shoeboxed
Highrise
@danielmall
DanielMall.com

Jon Rohan

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Jon is an Engineer and Designer at GitHub. He recently spoke at CSS Dev Conf in Hawaii on Github CSS Performance.

Estelle Weyl

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Estelle started her professional life in architecture, then managed teen health programs. In 2000, she took the natural step of becoming a web standardista. She has consulted for Apple, Yahoo! and Kodakgallery, among others. Estelle provides CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript tutorials and detailed grids of browser support in her at standardista.com. She is the author of Mobile HTML5 and HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World. While not coding, she works in construction, de-hippifying her 1960’s throwback abode.

Ryan Irelan

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Ryan is presently the Vice President of Technology at Happy Cog. He’s also the owner of Mijingo, a publisher of training materials for web people. Ryan is also the publisher of EE Insider.com, a news and information website about Expression Engine. He’s also the author of ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide.

Gene Crawford and Carl Smith of Bizcraft

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:00 -0600

Our guests for this episode are the hosts of the BizCraft, the podcast about the business side of web design, Carl Smith of nGen Works and Gene Crawford of UnmatchedStyle. Gene Crawford is the Editor for unmatchedstyle.com, organizer of convergese.com. President AIGA South Carolina and he also runs Period Three. Carl Smith is the founding member of nGen Works. He has worked with some great teams that won the New York Art Directors Award for Interactive Development, The Hospitality Industry’s Best of Show Award, and two National C.A.S.E. awards for Educational Web Development. Featured in Kelly Goto’s best-selling book, Web Redesign: Workflow That Works.

Jennifer Robbins

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:43:00 -0600

Jennifer Robbins has been a Web designer since 1993. She designed the web’s first commercial site, O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Robbins is the author of Web Design in a Nutshell, Learning Web Design, and HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference. She has also written corporate identity style guides for clients such as Harcourt Publishing, Americanexpress.com, and Orange Imagineering.

Since 2000, Jennifer has lived in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has worked as a freelance designer, teacher, lecturer and consultant through her company Littlechair, Inc.

Jennifer has taught at Johnson & Wales University and at the Massachusetts College of Art and is now a product designer for O’Reilly Media.

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Chris Coyier

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Chris is well known for his screencasts and tutorials at CSS Tricks.com. Previously he worked for Wufoo and Survey Monkey.

Dan Cederholm — Dribbble and Design

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Dan is a designer, author, speaker, husband, and father living in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the Founder and Principal of SimpleBits, LLC, a tiny web design studio, and co-founder and designer of Dribbble, a vibrant community for sharing screenshots of your work. Dan is a recognized expert in the field of standards-based web design and has worked with YouTube, Microsoft, Google, MTV, ESPN, and others. He has authored four books including “CSS3 For Web Designers”, “Handcrafted CSS”, “Bulletproof Web Design”, and “Web Standards Solutions”. In early 2012, he received a TechFellow award for Product Design & Marketing. Dan enjoys sharing his simplistic approach to web design while spreading the word on the standards-based markup and style techniques he’s collected by speaking at conferences and events around the globe.

Veerle Pieters

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Veerle is a Belgian web and graphic designer, known throughout the world for her elegantly designed web projects, her tutorials promoting CSS, and her articles and blog posts on graphic design, web design, and modern home design. In 2000, she founded Duoh! with Geert Leyseele. They choose their projects based on how well they connect with a company, and have worked on everything from ExpressionEngine 2.0’s GUI to innovative, creative projects for the Library of Congress and sites for businesses large and small.

Tab Atkins

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Tab Atkins works for Google on the Chrome team, claiming that his position is “Web Standards Hacker”. Previously, he was a web developer for for a software company in Texas. Tab is also a member of the CSS Working Group, and participates in several other W3C groups as either a member or a contributor, including the HTML and Fonts Working Groups.

Jessica Hische — Letterer and Illustrator

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:11:00 -0600

With client list that includes Wes Anderson, Tiffany & Co., The New York Times, Target, American Express, and Wired Magazine, Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid inter netter”. Always pushing for side projects, Jessica’s publishers her own micro-sites that include Mom This is How Twitter Works, Should I Work for Free? and Don’t Fear the Internet.

Jina Bolton — Live from ConvergeFL

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Jina Bolton is an interactive designer and artist, working and residing in Silicon Valley. She co-authored The Art & Science of CSS. Jina has consulted for various agencies and organizations including the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and Mass.gov. She holds a BFA in Computer Arts and Graphic Design from Memphis College of Art.

Matt Griffin

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Matt is a designer and one of the founders of Bearded. He has a great love for letterpress printing, and is an advocate for collaboration in design, and has been published in A List Apart and .net magazine. Matt’s one of the creators of Wood Type Revival, a successfully Kickstarter-funded project which seeks out lost historic wood type and converts it into digital fonts for modern designers.

Carnegie Mellon University
Drupal
Ethan Marcotte
Responsive Design by Ethan Marcotte
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Testing Websites in Game Console Browsers
Apple Remote for iOS
Andy Clarke on Twitter
SCSS
Samantha Warren’s interview on Non-Breaking Space
Style Tiles and How They Work on A List Apart
Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
Stop Pissing Off Your Designers article on Viget
Wood Type Revival
CKEditor
United Pixel Workers Tshirts
@elefontpress / @beardedstudio

John Ferrara

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:11:00 -0600

John has worked as a user experience practitioner since 1999 and began designing video games in 2001. His nutrition education game Fitter Critters was a top prizewinner in the 2010 Apps for Healthy Kids contest sponsored by Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, and it is currently being tested in public elementary schools. John is the author of “Playful Design: Creating Game Experiences in Everyday Interfaces”

Mat Marquis

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Mat works at The Filament Group in Boston, a company that designs engaging sites and apps for mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms. He is a designer and a developer who occasionally works independently with big-time clients like The Boston Globe. Mat also regularly writes articles for the A List Apart blog. He is a member of the jQuery Mobile team, and also an active member of the open space community at movethewebforward. In addition, Mat chairs the Responsive Images Community Group.

Jason Grigsby

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Jason is a Mobile Web Strategist. He’s the co-Founder of CloudFour where they live, breathe, and dream the mobile web and Mobile Portland, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, promoting and supporting the mobile technology community. Jason is also the Co-Author of Head First Mobile Web.

Nicole Sullivan — CSS, OOCSS, and Frameworks

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Nicole Sullivan is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-end architecture for sites with large numbers of pages and visitors. She speaks about performance at conferences around the world and has enjoyed working on large commercial sites. She writes on her blog as well as other industry developer sites.

Lou Rosenfeld — Information Architecture and User Experience

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Lou is an independent information architecture consultant, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields.

Samantha Warren — Style Tiles and Designing with Web Typography

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Samantha Warren is an experienced designer, speaker, and writer who leverages a diverse background in artistic mediums to create compelling and functional web experiences. Currently, Samantha is the Communications designer at Twitter. She talks about design and the web on her blog, BadAssIdeas.com, and spends time with her cross-eyed cat, Grace.

Eric Meyer — CSS Evangelist

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Eric has been working with the web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. A widely read author, he is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, which counts a wide variety of corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies among its clients. Eric, along with Jeffrey Zeldman, is the co-founder of An Event Apart.

Brian Hoff

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Brian is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York who loves creating compelling and useful websites and memorable interactions across the web. When he’s not designing, he can be found writing, speaking and occasionally part-time teaching at colleges — all on the subject of design.

Aarron Walter

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Aarron has been building websites professionally since 1999, and taught interactive design courses at colleges including Temple University, The University of Georgia, and The Art Institute of Atlanta since 2002. In 2007 he joined The Web Standards Project, and for three years lead the development of the InterACT curriculum project – an open curriculum designed to bridge the gap between the Web industry and education. Aarron is the lead user experience designer at The Rocket Science Group – makers of MailChimp, and is the author of Building Findable Website and Designing for Emotion.

Kristina Halvorson — Content Strategy

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Kristina lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her two young children, whom she often quotes on Twitter. She is the founder and CEO of Brain Traffic, a world-renowned content strategy consultancy. She’s also the author of Content Strategy for the Web (2009)– recently out in its 2nd Edition, and is the founder of “Confab The Content Strategy Conference”. Kristina is widely recognized as the industry’s leading advocate for content strategy. In 2009, she curated the first Content Strategy Consortium to facilitate a national dialogue about this emerging discipline. Today, Kristina speaks regularly to audiences around the world and is well known for her energetic, often humorous talks.

Rachel Andrew

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for this episode is Rachel Andrew. Rachel is a web developer, speaker and prolific author. Her new book, the CSS3 Anthology was just released by Sitepoint. She’s also the founder of the web development agency, edgeofmyseat.com.

Brad Frost — Responsive Web Design

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Brad is a mobile web strategist and front-end designer at the digital advertising agency R/GA in New York. He’s also the creator of a Mobile Web Best Practices site, and one of the creative minds behind WTFMobileweb.com and wtfqrcodes.com.

Greg Storey

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Greg is the president of Happy Cog, an industry-leading, diverse group of problem-solving superstars, united under the common goal of making the web a better place to think, work and play. Greg writes on his own blog as well as Happy Cog’s Cognition about business practices, design and the intersection of the two in the real & digital world.

Jeff Croft

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for today’s show is Jeff Croft, a designer and developer working out of his home in Seattle. He works at the web agency nGen Works and he’s also a blogger, speaker, critic, and industry thought leader. Jeff is the co-founder of the popular eBook sharing community, Lendle.me, he’s co-authored two books, Pro CSS Techniques, and Web Standards Creativity. He has been working on the web full-time since 1995. While Jeff does plenty of programming, his true passion lies in design, user experience, communication, and social media.

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert — ShopTalk Crossover

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Our guests for our fourth episode are Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, the hosts of the popular web design podcast Shoptalk. Chris is well known for his prolific posts and screencasts at CSS-Tricks.com. He’s a designer for Wufoo.com, speaker on all things web. Dave Rupert is the lead developer for Paravel, a web design and branding agency located in Austin, Texas.

Emily Lewis

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Our guest for episode 3 is Emily Lewis. Emily creates beautiful, accessible, standards-based web sites from her web design and development studio based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As part of her ongoing quest to spread the good word about standards, she writes about web design on her blog, A Blog Not Limited, and is the author of Microformats Made Simple and a contributing author for the HTML5 Cookbook.

Paul Irish

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Paul is a front end developer and works on the Chrome Developer relations team at Google. He’s a member of the jQuery team, and a lead developer on Modernizr and HTML5 Boilerplate. He’s also the creator of the sites MotherEffingHSL, MotherEffingTextShadow, and a bunch of mother effing other sites.

Ethan Marcotte

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:00 -0600

Ethan is a web designer & developer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He’s also the author several web design books including Responsive Web Design, a book that’s helped revolutionize the way websites are built. He frequently speaks on web standards and responsive web design at conferences and tweets about it @beep and @rwd.

Ethan Marcotte is a web designer & developer who lives in Boston.

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Jina Anne and Micah Godbolt — The State of Design Systems

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Kirupa Chinnathambi — Animating the Web

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Lara Hogan — Public Speaking Training

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Simon St. Laurent — Amazon's Best Week Ever, Apple's Self-Driving Cars, and Boeing's Self-Flying Planes

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Dan Mall — What is Your Hourly Rate?

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Harry Roberts — The Tools of a CSS Front-end Architect

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Dan Brown — UX Design Consultant