The Big Web Show

Digital law specialist Heather Burns is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Heather is the author of The Web Designer’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Directive, a “recovering web designer,” and the founder of a monthly ebulletin with digital law and policy news you need to know.

She explains: “While I am not a lawyer, the legislators who create digital laws are not internet users, much less designers or developers. Therein lies the problem. I view my work on digital law and policy as an attempt to build a bridge between the two parties.”

Heather and Jeffrey discuss absurd and unjust laws governing transactions on the web, including the birth of the EU cookie law (all 27 versions of it), the slow pace of government versus lightning internet development, and why web design and development need consultative status and a seat at the table.

Links for this episode:

• About Heather
  
• Sanctimonious Claptrap: Absurd Quotations by Internet Lawmakers & Influencers?
  
• Web Dev Law
  
• WebDevLaw blog
  
• Safe For Work: VATMOSS and the Adult Industry
  
• @idea15webdesign
  
• @webdevlaw
  
• "The Law Is A Ass" – Charles Dickens
  

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Jeffrey Zeldman’s Big Web Show guest is front-end designer Maya Benari (@mayabenari), a leading contributor to the U.S. Web Design Standards. Recently launched, and deservedly much lauded, the U.S. Web Design Standards consist of open source UI components plus a visual style guide, and are designed to create consistency and beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites. Accessibility, semantics, and mobile-first responsive web design are baked in, right out of the box. Maya and Jeffrey discuss the genesis of the project, the teams behind the scenes, and why improving people’s lives is sexier than building sandwich rating apps.

Links for this episode:

• U.S. Web Design Standards
  
• Introducing the U.S. Web Design Standards
  
• Maya Benari's Website
  
• Maya Benari: Front End Designer
  
• 18F Guides
  
• 18F
  
• Maya Benari on GitHub
  
• Getting Started with U.S. Web Design Standards
  
• Bourbon
  

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Designer/developer Val Head (@vlh) is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Val is the co-founder of the Web Design Day conference, co-host with Cennydd Bowles of the Motion and Meaning podcast, and author of CSS Pocket Guide (5 Simple Steps) and the upcoming Designing Interface Animations (Rosenfeld Media). Val and Zeldman discuss how to create an animation style guide, the genius of user queries, the web animation API, frame by frame animation, animating with math in Flash, Disney animation and the illusion of life, animating for meaning, how to animate without triggering vestibular disorders, resources for accessible animations, and what to eat in Lawrenceville, PA.

Links for this episode:

• Val Head - Designer & Interface Animation Consultant
  
• Val Head (@vlh) | Twitter
  
• Designing Interface Animations | Rosenfeld Media
  
• Motion And Meaning: A podcast about motion design for digital designers with Val Head and Cennydd Bowles.
  
• Web Design Day, June 12th 2015 | Pittsburgh, PA Web Design & Development Conference
  
• Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart Article
  
• UI Animation and UX: A Not-So-Secret Friendship · An A List Apart Article
  
• More Resources for Accessible Animations · An A List Apart Blog Post
  
• Animation switch
  
• Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life: Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston: 9780896592339: Amazon.com: Books
  
• CSS animations | Five Simple Steps
  

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Khoi Vinh is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest this week. Khoi is a Principle Designer at Adobe, design chair at Wildcard, and former design director at NYTimes.com. He blogs at subtraction.com. The two designers discuss the surprising results of Khoi's recent design tools survey; being creative on the iPad; the inspiration behind Adobe Comp CC; juggling multiple projects to stay fresh; choosing an extracurricular project; how design has changed in the past two years; how to watch TV; and more.

Links for this episode:

• @khoi on Twitter
  
• Subtraction.com
  
• The Tools Designers Are Using Today
  
• Sketch digital design software
  
• Design Tools: What Are You Using
  
• Khoi's latest book
  
• Wildcard
  
• Kidpost – Photo Sharing for Families
  

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Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss social media, the truth about Facebook Likes, growing your design business, getting bigger clients, sucking the joy out of web design, how the industry is changing, hair care for manly men, and more.

Links for this episode:

• Sarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer. The blog of designer, Sarah Parmenter.Sarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer. | The blog of designer, Sarah Parmenter.
  
• UI Design, iPhone User Interface Design, UI Designer - You Know Who, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
  
• Blushbar - The Blow Dry Bar
  
• Learning FlexboxSarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer.Sarah Parmenter - User Interface Designer.
  
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Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest is Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) of The Web Ahead. The two long-time web designers discuss moving beyond cookie-cutter layouts on the web, the ins and outs of podcasting, designing a website, learning from your users, and Jen’s journey from theater to technology.

Links for this episode:

• Changing the Shapes with Sara Soueidan | The Web Ahead
  
• Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) | Twitter
  
• The Web Ahead Labs
  
• jensimmons/thelayoutsahead · GitHub
  
• CSS Shapes 101 · An A List Apart Article
  
• The Shapes of CSS
  
• Creating Non-Rectangular Layouts With CSS Shapes
  
• The Complexity and the Humanity with Trent Walton | The Web Ahead
  
• CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
  
• CSS Layouts with Rachel Andrew | The Web Ahead
  
• Zen Grids: a responsive grid system built with Compass and Sass
  
• About | Jen Simmons
  
• 216 color chart
  

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Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest is web pioneer Jeff Veen (@veen), cofounder of Typekit and Adaptive Path, co-creator of Measuremap, author of The Art & Science of Web Design and Hot Wired Style, ex-Google, ex-Adobe, now with True Ventures capital investment firm. Jeff and Jeffrey discuss creating the tools our community uses to make the stuff the world consumes, agency versus in-house design, consulting design monetization versus product design monetization, parent hacks, mentoring, the early web design days of Debabelizer and using server-side push for animation (because animated GIFs didn’t exist yet), how companies get valuated, what it takes to make a thing (versus what it takes to scale it), speaking versus writing, research, empathy, and saying no to products that kill kittens.

Links for this episode:

• Jeffrey Veen (@veen) | Twitter
  
• Leaving Adobe
  
• Typekit
  
• Jeff Veen's blog
  
• Books by Jeff Veen
  Amazon.com
  

Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is web developer and long-time standards evangelist Aaron Gustafson (@AaronGustafson), author of Adaptive Web Design. The two web design and development veterans discuss web design then and now; why Flipboard's 60fps web launch is anti-web and anti-user; Genesis's "Land of Confusion" video, and other bad ideas from the 1980s; design versus art; the demise and sendoff of Web Standards Sherpa; how the web community differs from other creative communities; and the 2nd Edition of Aaron's book, coming from New Riders this year.

Links for this episode:

• A Bit About Aaron Gustafson
  
• Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
  
• Responsive Issues Community Group
  
• Easy Designs - Web Design, Development & Consulting
  
• Web Standards Sherpa
  
• Code & Creativity
  
• WebStandardsProject (@wasp) | Twitter
  
• A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
  
• Genesis - Land Of Confusion [Official Music Video] - YouTube
  

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Today’s guest is Jessica Alter (@jalter), Cofounder & Chief Connector of FounderDating, “a Linkedin for entrepreneurs.” Jessica and @zeldman discuss growing an online community while maintaining quality and avoiding spam and anti-patterns; how to become an advisor or cofounder; the biggest mistake budding entrepreneurs make; getting to your first customers; why the people side of things—experiential information—is more important than ever (and more important than fundraising); and how listeners can empower themselves to become entrepreneurs.

Links for this episode:

• Jessica Alter (@jalter) | Twitter
  
• Connect with Entrepreneurs, Startup founders and Advisors | FounderDating
  For Entrepreneurs, By EntrepreneursConnect with world-class entreprenuers and advisors

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Khoi Vinh (@khoi) is a web and graphic designer, blogger, and former design director for The New York Times, where he worked from January 2006 until July 2010. Prior to that, Khoi co-founded and was design director for Behavior, an NYC web design studio. He is the author of How They Got There: Interviews With Digital Designers About Their Careers (http://howtheygotthere.us) and Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (New Riders, 2010), and was a leading proponent of bringing grid-based graphic design principles to web design in the mid-2000s. In 2011, Fast Company named him one of “The 50 Most Influential Designers in America."

Links for this episode:

• Subtraction.com + Khoi Vinh’s Web site
  
• Khoi Vinh (@khoi) | Twitter
  
• How they got there. — A book by Khoi Vinh
  
• Wildcard
  
• Khoi Vinh -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - New York Times
  
• Khoi Vinh on using Sketch instead of Photoshop | Adobe | Creative Bloq
  
• Behavior Design
  

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