Every week on AMC TV’s Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad men and women to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today.
Continue reading »Steven Champeon turned web development upside down, and created an instant best practice of standards-based design, when he introduced the notion of designing for content and experience instead of browsers. In part one of a series, ALA’s Gustafson refreshes us on the principles of progressive enhancement. Upcoming installments will translate the philosophy into sophisticated, future-focused design and code.
Continue reading »Google releases a useful new Gmail feature which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning.
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