The Big Web Show

Episode 114: Designing and Developing "The Web at 25" Website

March 14th, 2014 | 46 mins 23 secs

Mike Pick & Tim Murtaugh talk about creating a “Web at 25” website. Design, approval, and client focus. Working for geniuses. What we’d be doing if the web didn’t exist. Keeping the web open. The web today: more powerful, more empowering.

Episode 113: From Britain with Love: Front End Style Guides

March 7th, 2014 | 57 mins 51 secs

Anna Debenham on Code For America, starting a web career at age 14, checking websites in game console browsers, producing 24 Ways, what comes after winning young developer of the year, and the delights of British cuisine.

Episode 112: Responsive Images Get Real

February 27th, 2014 | 1 hr 50 secs

Mat Marquis, chair of the W3C Responsive Images Community Group, sits down with Zeldman to discuss guidelines for responsive images in multi-device design.

Episode 111: Web Design Comes of Age

February 13th, 2014 | 57 mins 57 secs

Andy Clarke and Zeldman discuss 10 years of web design history, running a successful freelance design business, the importance of writing, approaches to public speaking, CSS3 easter eggs, growing your small design studio business, and much more.

Episode 110: CSS and JavaScript: Can't We All Just Get Along?

February 4th, 2014 | 51 mins 29 secs

Nicole Sullivan talks about running CSS Conf, building scalable systems that won’t break, designing for speed and performance, learning Ruby, Object Oriented CSS, a CSS Style Guide, Type-o-matic, and much more.

Episode 109: Bring Me the Head of Tim Berners-Lee

January 23rd, 2014 | 52 mins 44 secs

Robin Berjon and Jeffrey Zeldman have a rational conversation about EME, DRM, the MPAA, and the W3C.

Episode 108: Designing with Data

January 18th, 2014 | 58 mins 14 secs

Sarah Parmenter talks about rethinking the designer’s role in the era of flat design; launching a design-led business—from concept to franchising in four months; misbehaving Fusion Drives, cracked Retina screens and other digital-age delights.

Episode 107: If Digg Had a Child with Google Hangouts

January 9th, 2014 | 52 mins 49 secs

Sang Shin and David Yoon, co-creators of Been, discuss social bookmarking and the failure of cookies with host Jeffrey Zeldman.

Episode 106: Two Jews Talking About Business

December 19th, 2013 | 1 hr 5 mins

Jason Fried, the notoriously private designer/writer/entrepreneur opens up about love, marketing, product design, and the secret behind The New York Times Bestseller list.

Episode 105: Intelligent Interfaces

November 21st, 2013 | 55 mins 47 secs

Michael Simmons, co-creator of the Fantastical app (#1 Apple Store app), talks with host Jeffrey Zeldman about artificial intelligence and machine learning, the design of Fantastical (and Fantastical 2), and the Apple ecosystem.

Episode 104: Animate This!

November 14th, 2013 | 48 mins 37 secs

Designer/developer Val Head @vlh and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the writing of A Pocket Guide to CSS Animations; running freelance projects and working as a hired gun; JavaScript and CSS animation compared; and more.

Episode 103: Font Lover's Pizza

November 7th, 2013 | 55 mins 50 secs

Type nerds, unite! Nick Sherman (The Font Bureau, Webtype, Fonts In Use, A List Apart) and Jeffrey Zeldman geek out on responsive type, 21st century hinting, typefaces designed from scratch for onscreen reading at small sizes, and much more.

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