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Episode 126: Dribble ‘n Flow with Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) Feb 05, 2015

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Author (“Sass For Web Designers”), designer, and Dribbble co-founder Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) sits down with Jeffrey Zeldman to discuss using tools and templates versus rolling your own design and code, whether web design was really simpler in the good old days, his favorite Dribbble features, community-building, empire-building, freelancing in the early days of Happy Cog, and the joys of the fretless banjo.

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Episode 125: “You’re My Favorite Client,” with Mike Monteiro Jan 29, 2015

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Designers Mike Monteiro (author, “You’re My Favorite Client”) and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss why humility is expensive, how to reassure the client at every moment that you know what you’re doing, and how to design websites that look as good on Day 400 as they do on Day 1. Plus old age, unsung heroines of the early web, and a book for designers to give to their clients.

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Episode 124: We Have a Dream: Bringing Diversity To Our Industry Jan 15, 2015

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Jeffrey Zeldman interviews creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs (@denisejacobs) of RawkTheWeb.

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DeniseJacobs.com
Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist
@denisejacobs on Twitter
Rawk The Web
The mission of Rawk The Web is to provide resources and inspiration to help people to bring out their inner web rawkstar and increase the numbers of diverse tech industry experts.
@rawktheweb on Twitter

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Episode 123: Leading a Design Agency with Clearleft's Andy Budd Dec 09, 2014

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In a fast-moving episode, designers Andy Budd and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss why clients spend more on toilet cleaning than design, honest pitching, the ins and outs of agile pricing, modular code libraries, selling web services instead of deliverables, the maturation of our industry since the mid-1990s, the value of reputation, design as a collaborative process, how and why agencies get invited to pitch, passion as studio marketing, our field's evolution from layout-making to strategic design thinking, and much more.

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Episode 122: On Web Typography with Jason Santa Maria Oct 06, 2014

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Jason Santa Maria of Vox Media & A Book Apart discusses his new book, On Web Typography, with host Jeffrey Zeldman. The two designers discuss writing on trains, placing objects and playing with type, the new web designer, designing the Typekit logo, editorial design and Vox Media, three years and two editors, heavenly italics, type classification systems, Dieter Rams and "touch-ability," design as strategy, hitting it with the pretty stick, and more.

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Episode 121: Dead Pixel Society Oct 02, 2014

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Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is Justin Dauer, creative director at Nansen and co-founder of The Dead Pixel Society, dedicated to the lost art of pixel-by-pixel icon design. The present-day pixel artist refuses to die!

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The Dead Pixel Society
AN ICONIC HISTORY
pseudoroom design
@pseudoroom on Twitter
UXShirts
Nansen
The Iconfactory
Gedeon Maheux on Twitter
Cuban Council (Kaliber 10000)
Dead Pixel Society (write-up at zeldman.com)
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Another Mozco! screenshot
MOZCO !GARASH! icon
Copyright ©1997,1999 Igarashi Susumu

Episode 120: Designing The Editorial Experience Sep 28, 2014

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Jeffrey Zeldman's guests are Sue Apfelbaum and Juliette Cezzar, co-authors & designers of Designing the Editorial Experience: A Primer for Print, Web, and Mobile.

Episode 119: You're Touching My Screen Sep 05, 2014

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Jeffrey Zeldman returns with the Big Web Show back on 5by5. For his first interview, he talks with Dan Benjamin about the evolution and changing importance of the web, 90's slang, and more.

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Episode 118: Responsive Images, Picturefill, and Web Standards May 20, 2014

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Scott Jehl and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the picture element: a container for multiple images. Making the emerging W3C standard picture element work in today’s browsers. Polyfills and progressive enhancement. Responsible responsive design. Shim versus polyfill; srcset versus picture; the prefix wars. Balancing company projects and open source, community projects.

Picturefill is a responsive images polyfill approach that web designers and developers can use today.

Scott Jehl is a web designer and developer who works with the bright folks at Filament Group, where he creates websites and applications for a range of clients (including the 2012 responsive design of the Boston Globe). He is an active contributor to the open source community, frequently releasing ideas and projects on Github; a jQuery team member (most recently leading the development of the jQuery Mobile project); and the co-author of Designing With Progressive Enhancement (New Riders: 2010)

Episode 117: The Real Macaw: Stop Writing Code, Start Drawing It Apr 23, 2014

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Tom Giannattasio, Founder/CEO of Macaw, “the superhot web design tool of the future”, joins Zeldman to discuss a paradigm shift: can we really draw semantic HTML and succinct CSS? How it works. Pixels, percentages, ems, or rems? Designing a design tool. How to quit your job. From Kickstarter to startup. Team building. Responsive design, responsive community.

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