The Big Web Show

Front-end architect and speaker Mina Markham is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Mina discusses her career path, her work at as a senior engineer at Slack, how she came to create the Hillary Clinton UI pattern library “Pantsuit,” her time at IBM, helping others and inviting women of color into STEM fields, becoming a public speaker in spite of deep introversion, a recent South African safari, air travel, conferences, the joys of visiting Italy, and more. Enjoy a relaxed and illuminating glimpse into the life of a private and highly creative person. Links for this episode: Mina Markham, Developer Mina Markham on Twitter (@minamarkham) Mina Markham on GitHub Mina Markham on Linkedin Sassy Starter Front Porch Conference Slack Slack on Twitter Mina’s story Building Pantsuit – the Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman Black Girls Who Code Girl Develop It Brought to you by: Blockstackblockstack.org/bigwebshow

Legendary computer scientist, web standards pioneer, and indie-web proponent Tantek Çelik is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The secret history of standards in our web browsers. How web standards moved from academic ideas that sometimes couldn’t even be implemented to the foundation of our modern web. The rift between standards-oriented, CSS-and-accessibility-loving web developers and those who rely on powerful and sophisticated toolchains: can it be bridged? The Flash years and today. Indieweb tools and the independent web community: what it’s about and how to get started. Readers versus social readers. Taking back privacy and the ownership of our content. Links for this episode: Tantek Çelik (@t) | Twitter Tantek Çelik Tantek Çelik - Wikiwand 5by5 | The Big Web Show IndieWeb Micro.blog Microsub - IndieWeb reader - IndieWeb Brought to you by: Blockstack (The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work and we’d love to have you, learn more and get started at blockstack.org/bigwebshow). Robinhood (Robinhood is giving you FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio. Sign up at bigwebshow.robinhood.com).

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

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

Coder, writer, composer, and founding developer of WordPress Matt Mullenweg is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Open Source will save us. The WordPress 5.0 rollout. When Matthew met Jeffrey. Browsers in the age of Blink. AMP & HTML. Gutenberg: blocks and key commands. IE5. Box models. Google: still doing no evil? Links for this episode: Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) | Twitter Matt Mullenweg – Unlucky in Cards Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS — WordPress Automattic Blog — WordPress Bringing UX to an open source platform: Redesigning WordPress - studio.zeldman Progressive Web Apps | Web | Google Developers AMP on Google | Google Developers The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (late 2018) The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (2019) The Tail End - Wait But Why Browser diversity starts with us. | Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design Brought to you by: HoneybookHoneybook.com

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

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

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

Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more. Links for this episode: Hi, I’m Jason | Responsive Web Typography Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: Books Variable Fonts | Responsive Web Typography The evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web Typography About Jason | Responsive Web Typography Jason Pamental (@jpamental) | Twitter Variable Fonts Experiments - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePen The New School: Year One — Pentagram David Jonathan Ross (@djrrb) | Twitter Bello | Typekit An Event Apart: Orlando 2018 Special Edition Web Design & UX Conference Figma: the collaborative interface design tool. Design with web fonts in the browser - Typecast AmbientLightSensor - Web APIs | MDN Jason Pamental – Medium Jason Pamental on CodePen jpamental (Jason Pamental) · GitHub Jason Pamental (@jpamental) • Instagram photos and videos very able fonts Brought to you by: .TECH Domains

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

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

Jen Simmons—Designer Advocate at Mozilla, creator of Firefox Grid Inspector, host of Layout Land and The Web Ahead, member of the CSS Working Group, coiner of Intrinsic Web Design, and general force of nature—is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Everything we thought we knew about web design just changed. Making sites that sing. Designing with the viewport in mind. A time-based storytelling journey. Real whitespace on the web. Real designer/developer tools: the Shapes Editor, Grid Inspector, and next-generation fonts panel in Firefox. Links for this episode: Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) | Twitter Layout Land - YouTube - YouTube Jen Simmons Try New Browser Features in Pre-Release Versions | Firefox Jen Simmons | Labs Layout Land Transcript Brought to you by: Simple ContactsSimplecontacts.com/bws

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

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

Creative director, advisor, designer, developer, author (Pricing Design), speaker, mentor, musician, and entrepreneur (SuperFriendly, SuperBooked) Dan Mall is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Running a studio, pitching, value pricing, the apprentice program, “Make Grunt do it,” how to start a startup, “the most exciting design systems are boring,” walking away from big pitches, launching a service to help you find work. Links for this episode: A Book Apart, Pricing Design “How to Scope Work,” an article by Dan Mall SuperBooked Dan Mall (@danmall) | Twitter Brought to you by: SquarespaceSquarespace.com

Mike Essl, Dean at Cooper Union School of Art in New York, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Topics: The designer as hobbyist. “I was an expert witness for the Associated Press.” Design is a machine. Working in a comic book store. The Cooper Union coincidences. Web design in 1995 versus today. New York design versus San Francisco design. Systems making versus picture making. Kind of Bloop. Links for this episode: Mike Essl Mike Essl (@essl) | Twitter Welcome | The Cooper Union Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop: Johan Kugelberg, Joe Conzo, Afrika Bambaataa, Buddy Esquire, Jeff Chang: 9780789315403: Amazon.com: Books Amazon.com: Watching the Watchmen (9781848560413): Dave Gibbons: Books The Chopping Block, Inc :: World Domination Through Graphic Design

David Sleight, Design Director at ProPublica, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces “investigative journalism with moral force.” David is a web designer, creative director, and leader at the intersection of publishing and digital technology. Topics include: Stop blaming the algorithm. Design ethics. Stories as products. How the role of the story affects art direction. Our medium needs design that is faster and design that is slower. The renaissance of The Washington Post. How reporting creates products. Can reporters be part of the Resistance? Links for this episode: Home — ProPublica ProPublica Data Store David Sleight (@stuntbox) | Twitter Stuntbox – Design and strategy of the finest cut. ProPublica (@ProPublica) | Twitter Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly — ProPublica Bombs in Our Backyard — ProPublica 5by5 | The Big Web Show #66: David Sleight Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier

Designer Josh Clark (@bigmediumjosh) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Josh founded the consultancy BIG MEDIUM, whose slogan is “Design for what’s next.” He designs mobile and IoT experiences, AIs, and bots; is the author of Designing For Touch and Tapworthy; and got his start as the creator of Couch to 5K. Links for this episode: Josh on Twitter Big Medium Brought to you by: SquarespaceSquarespace.com

Are you at a crossroads and need help figuring out the next step Do you have big goals, but don’t know how to accomplish them? Whitney Hess, empathy coach for activist executives, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The journey from UX to coaching. Changing our business model to better meet the client’s needs. The joy of research. Why asking the right questions is more important than having all the answers. Charging more to give more back. Animal rescue. Sponsored by A List Apart.

Jen Simmons (@JenSimmons), Designer Advocate at Mozilla, creators Layout Land, host of The Web Ahead, and driving force with Rachel Andrew behind CSS Grid in our browsers, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Free speech, Libertarianism, and doxxing. The CSS Grid Inspector and other tools coming our way—including Flexbox Inspector and Shape Path editor, Variable Fonts tooling, and tools for font features. #metoo and #blacklivesmatter. Video blogging’s unheralded heroes. Rough consensus and running code. Layout Land and modern layouts. Team teaching with Rachel Andrew. What goes into a great instructional video. Links for this episode: Layout Land The Web Ahead JenSimmons.com Learn CSS Grid | Jen Simmons The Web Behind: Videoblogging with Jay Dedman, Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi | The Web Ahead An Event Apart News: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart video An Event Apart News: Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart Video Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) | Twitter Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com to get a free trial and use the offer code BIGWEBSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).