The Big Web Show

Designer, entrepreneur, and social media consultant Sarah Parmenter is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Working with celebrities, the wrong way to save a troubled brand, using social media is not the same as consulting on social media, design ten years ago and now, can one web designer do it all?

Links for this episode:

• About
  
• Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) | Twitter
  
• Sarah Parmenter – Medium
  
• Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• An Event Apart: Denver 2017 Special Edition Web Design & UX Conference
  
• The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar
  
• Oath's advisory board has Serena Williams as chair and Russell Wilson, Chuck D and Karlie Kloss as members | FierceCable
  
• SuperDuper!
  

Michael Simmons, designer and CEO of Flexibits (makers of Fantastical and Cardhop) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Designing “professional but not professional boring” experiences. Usefulness versus “garnish.” How animation can convey brand values. Creating experiences instead of feature sets. Instagram vs Snapchat. “The car that sells itself” and marketing by letting the product speak for itself.

Links for this episode:

• Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for Mac | Meet your Mac's new calendar.
  
• Flexibits | Cardhop for Mac | The contacts app you'll actually want to use.
  
• Cardhop on the Mac App Store
  
• Old Honda Commercial from the late 80's - YouTube
  

Host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Bram Stein, Typekit’s director of web fonts and author of the Webfont Handbook (A Book Apart, 2017). The two designers discuss creating great font stacks, optimizing web font performance, FOUT versus FOIT, the horror of fallback fonts, and new technology including variable fonts and font-display: FOUT or FOIT.

Links for this episode:

• Bram Stein (@bram_stein) | Twitter
  
• Indra Kupferschmid (@kupfers) | Twitter
  
• A Book Apart, Webfont Handbook
  
• Variable Fonts for Responsive Design · An A List Apart Blog Post
  
• Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world.
  
• Font Face Observer — fast and simple web font loading
  
• Typographica
  
• Alphabettes
  
• The Typekit Blog | Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design
  
• Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts – John Hudson – Medium
  
• font-display - CSS | MDN
  

Ben Jackson, founder & principal of Brooklyn advising firm For the Win, and creator of the open-source onboarding app Aloha, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest.

Ben and Jeffrey discuss service design, the opportunity cost of bad onboarding experiences, the 4Cs of good onboarding (compliance, clarity, culture, and community), the Aloha chatbot and how it fits into the broader trend of HR tech consumerization, and more.

Programming since 1992, Ben is a designer, engineer, editor, and entrepreneur, a past director of Mobile for VICE Media, past mobile lead for Longform, and past iOS lead for The New York Times. He has written and edited bylines for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and VICE; spoken at SXSW, Ignite NY, and Social Media Week; and volunteers on the curriculum Advisory Board, Coalition for Queens.

Links for this episode:

• For the Win: Design-first Employee Onboarding in New York
  design-first on boarding that takes the pain out of hiring
  

Rachel Nabors, author of Animation at Work (A Book Apart, 2017) stops by The Big Web Show to discuss how animation can help ease cognitive load in UX; creating the illusion of life; developing data to make the case for animation; pattern libraries; prototyping; and the link between animation and music.

Rachel Nabors has been an award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist, who parlayed her storytelling skills into a web design and development career. She has done projects with Mozilla, been an invited expert to the W3C, and currently works at Microsoft. Rachel tends the web animation community via the Animation at Work Slack and her web animation newsletter.

Links for this episode:

• Rachel Nabors: Award-winning cartoonist turned digital storyteller. - Rachel Nabors, award-winning cartoonist turned digital storyteller.
  
• Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) | Twitter
  
• A Book Apart, Animation at Work
  
• Invite user
  
• Web Animation Weekly
  
• Lightning Design System
  
• Rachel Nabors - Wikiwand
  
• Barba.js
  
• DevTools Challenger
  
• Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart Article
  

Clearleft’s Andy Budd and host Zeldman discuss the changing role design agencies must play to remain relevant; the rise of in-house design; working with pattern libraries (since 2008!); whether the “golden age” of web design and blogging is over; and much more.

Andy Budd has been blogging about design and technology since 2003. He was one of the leading lights of the web standards movement and his book, CSS Mastery, sold over 60,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. Andy is a founding partner at UX design consultancy Clearleft; the curator of dConstruct, one of the UK’s most popular design conferences; and the force behind UX London, the UK’s first dedicated usability, IA, and UX design event.

Links for this episode:

• Homepage | Clearleft
  
• CSS Mastery: Amazon.co.uk: Andy Budd, Emil Björklund: 9781430258636: Books
  
• Andy Budd: Blogography
  
• Andy Budd (@andybudd) | Twitter
  

As designers, we create human-centered interactions and experiences. Empathetic purpose drives our every decision. This same mentality, turned inward, forms the cornerstone of something amazing: a creative culture. Jeffrey Zeldman interviews designer, creative director, iconist, and author Justin Dauer (@pseudoroom) about his new book, Cultivating a Creative Culture—now available everywhere.

Links for this episode:

• Cultivating a Creative Culture
  
• Amazon: Cultivating a Creative Culture
  
• iTunes: Cultivating a Creative Culture
  
• @the_culturebook on Twitter
  
• Justin Dauer on Twitter: @pseudoroom
  
• Pseudoroom.com
  
• Medium: Creative Culture
  
• @pseudoroom on Instagram
  
• The Creative Culture Podcast
  

Illustrator, designer, and author Geri Coady (@hellogeri) is @zeldman’s guest. The two designers discuss blogging, learning graphic design, transitioning to web design, color accessibility tips and strategies, book writing, and the upcoming travel blog, Geri Draws Japan.

Links for this episode:

• Geri Coady | Canadian Designer & Illustrator in Nottingham, UK
  
• A Book Apart, Color Accessibility Workflows
  
• Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article
  
• Geri Coady on Twitter: @hellogeri
  

Nick Disabato (@nickd) and @zeldman discuss heat maps, conversion rates, design specialization, writing for the web, Jakob Nielsen, and the early days of blogging in Episode #159 of The Big Web Show – “everything web that matters.”

Links for this episode:

• NickD.org : Bio
  
• Draft
  
• NickD.org
  
• Nick Disabato on Twitter: @nickd
  

Internet veterans Jim @Coudal & Jeffrey @Zeldman on the death of blogging, the birth of Field Notes, the virtues of a subscription model, and much more. Begins in tears, ends in triumph. One of the most fun (and most inspiring) episodes ever.

Links for this episode:

• Memo Books, Notebooks, Journals & Planners | Field Notes
  
• Coudal Partners
  
• Coudal Partners Film & Video Archives
  
• Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis Presented by Adobe Creative Cloud