Design for Real Life
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Eric Meyer · first published 2016
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…starts with a copy of the Meyerweb CSS Reset. I've been doing it for so many years yet never thought twice about it. Only a couple months ago I decided to check what Mr Meyer was up to. I bought his book Design for Real life thinking it was about CSS. I was delightedly surprised by the breadth of new things I learned about design that I had never considered before.
on “25 Years of CSS” ↗…https://www.reddit.com/r/Flights/comments/13uqmba/website_wi... Not sure if there's a comparable or better flight-booking site these days. The CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) website looks more modern/cleaned up. The Design For Real Life book is available to read for free on the web - see https://dfrlbook.com/
on “A decade later, a decade lost (2024)” ↗I've been reading Design for Real Life (https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life), and its introduction is a fairly similar mirror of this kind of snafu -- using Facebook's "Your Year in Moments" feature as a stand-in. When Facebook…
on “Laughter Doesn’t Scale” ↗