A List Apart gets back to its roots: building community, giving a platform to new voices, and getting people excited about the web. We’re making changes to the way we work—starting with our decision to open-source the code that powers alistapart.com itself—and we want you to participate. Our Mat Marquis invites you to contribute code and concepts via GitHub, get to know our acquisition scouts, and use ALA and its editors to share your ideas and insights with the whole web design and development community.
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, not born. We often hear from people who say they’d love to write for A List Apart or start blogging, but don’t know where to start. They feel unfocused and overwhelmed by the task. If this is beginning to sound like you, read on, as Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it.
In this excerpt from Creative Culture, Justin Dauer walks us through many ways in which an organizations’ culture and the design work that it does play off of one another.
"Designing Value," an excerpt from Jim Kalbach's book The Jobs To Be Done Playbook, gives advice on creating a jobs-driven roadmap and using job stories to solve specific design problems.
Voice-driven content challenges many of our approaches to usability testing. Preston So turns them into opportunities and advantages for the medium itself.
In this excerpt from Cross-Cultural Design, Senongo Akpem discusses the many facets of typography that must be considered when you are looking to reach a global audience.
In this excerpt from Expressive Designs Systems, Yesenia Perez-Cruz goes deep on what it takes to create design systems that enables intentional, meaningful variation.
