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A List Apartby by Shrey Shah30 Jun 2026
Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you.
A List Apartby by Alan Dalton23 Apr 2026
I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework.
A List Apartby by Mark Bernstein15 Oct 2025
Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your...
A List Apartby by Michel Ferreira26 Sept 2025
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior.” — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents.
A List Apartby by Liam Nugent23 Apr 2025
As a product builder over too many years to mention, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months.
A List Apartby by Gerry Duffy30 May 2024
Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor.
A List Apartby by Ste Grainer29 Feb 2024
I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change.
A List Apartby by Aaron Gustafson7 Feb 2024
In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been...
A List Apartby by Jeffrey Zeldman29 Jan 2024
I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me. I am a creative. Not all creative people like this label.
A List Apartby by Justin Dauer22 Jun 2023
Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great.
A List Apartby by Colin Eagan, Jeffrey MacIntyre8 Dec 2022
As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or...
A List Apartby by Patrick Clancey9 Jun 2022
The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years.
A List Apartby by Lennart Overkamp12 May 2022
About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects...
A List Apartby by Patrick Brosset9 Dec 2021
CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page.
A List Apartby by Sophia V. Prater21 Oct 2021
Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system?
A List Apartby by Mike Wills23 Sept 2021
Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites.
A List Apartby by Eva PenzeyMoog26 Aug 2021
Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to...
A List Apartby by Tom Greenwood5 Aug 2021
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
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