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Episode 187: On beyond Pantsuit with Mina Markham
57 min
311/18/2025Front-end architect and speaker Mina Markham is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Mina discusses her career path, her work at as a senior engineer at Slack, how she came to create the Hillary Clinton UI pattern library “Pantsuit,” her time at IBM, helping others and inviting women of color into STEM fields, becoming a public speaker in spite of deep introversion, a recent South African safari, air travel, conferences, the joys of visiting Italy, and more. Enjoy a relaxed and illuminating glimpse into the life of a private and highly creative person. Links for this episode:Mina Markham, Developer Mina Markham on Twitter (@minamarkham) Mina Markham on GitHub Mina Markham on Linkedin Sassy Starter Front Porch Conference Slack Slack on Twitter Mina’s story Building Pantsuit – the Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman Black Girls Who Code Girl Develop It Brought to you by: Blockstack (The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work and we’d love to have you, learn more and get started at blockstack.org/bigwebshow).
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Episode 186: Tantek Çelik—web standards, toolchains, and the decentralized web
65 min
311/18/2025Legendary computer scientist, web standards pioneer, and indie-web proponent Tantek Çelik is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The secret history of standards in our web browsers. How web standards moved from academic ideas that sometimes couldn’t even be implemented to the foundation of our modern web. The rift between standards-oriented, CSS-and-accessibility-loving web developers and those who rely on powerful and sophisticated toolchains: can it be bridged? The Flash years and today. Indieweb tools and the independent web community: what it’s about and how to get started. Readers versus social readers. Taking back privacy and the ownership of our content. Links for this episode:Tantek Çelik (@t) | Twitter Tantek Çelik Tantek Çelik - Wikiwand 5by5 | The Big Web Show IndieWeb Micro.blog Microsub - IndieWeb reader - IndieWeb Brought to you by: Blockstack (The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work and we’d love to have you, learn more and get started at blockstack.org/bigwebshow). Robinhood (Robinhood is giving you FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio. Sign up at bigwebshow.robinhood.com).
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Episode 185: Design is a Relationship Business, with Joe Rinaldi
69 min
311/18/2025Founder and business development consultant Joe Rinaldi (That Was Clutch, Philamade, Bureau of Digital) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Agency and freelance networking, mining contacts for work, honesty in client services, what they don’t teach in design school, the value of having worked in service. Links for this episode:@joerinaldi on Twitter Joe Rinaldi on LinkedIn That Was Clutch Brought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year). Green Chef (For $50 off your first box of Green Chef, go to GreenChef.us/bigwebshow).
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Episode 184: Accessibility is not a “nice to have” – with Derek Featherstone
64 min
311/18/2025Why do companies de-prioritize accessibility? Making a digital map accessible to the blind. Pros and cons of the straw test. Why simulating a disability is not the same as working with disabled people. Using Twitter threads to prototype book chapters. How diversity (including neurodiversity and diversity of ability) makes for a better product. Changing small habits in your life leads to changing big ones. Links for this episode:Derek Featherstone (@feather) | Twitter Level Access - Digital Accessibility Software, Services, Training - Level Access Extreme Design by Derek Featherstone—An Event Apart Video Accessibility for Web Design UX Foundations: Accessibility Gucci blackface sweater: Gucci removes $890 "blackface" sweater, apologizes after receiving backlash - CBS News Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (MS Word) Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (Accessible PDF) Brought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year). Robinhood (Robinhood is giving you FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help you build your portfolio. Sign up at bigwebshow.robinhood.com).
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Episode 183: Open Source, Google, and WordPress 5.0 with Matt Mullenweg
52 min
311/18/2025Coder, writer, composer, and founding developer of WordPress Matt Mullenweg is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Open Source will save us. The WordPress 5.0 rollout. When Matthew met Jeffrey. Browsers in the age of Blink. AMP & HTML. Gutenberg: blocks and key commands. IE5. Box models. Google: still doing no evil? Links for this episode:Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) | Twitter Matt Mullenweg – Unlucky in Cards Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS — WordPress Automattic Blog — WordPress Bringing UX to an open source platform: Redesigning WordPress - studio.zeldman Progressive Web Apps | Web | Google Developers AMP on Google | Google Developers The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (late 2018) The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant (2019) The Tail End - Wait But Why Browser diversity starts with us. | Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design Brought to you by: Honeybook (Visit Honeybook.com and enter promo code BIGWEBSHOW to get 50% off your first year).
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Episode 182: It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work, with Jason Fried
61 min
311/18/2025Basecamp founder, New York Times best-selling author, and web software pioneer Jason Fried is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The two discuss Jason’s latest book (co-authored with David Heinemeier Hannson), It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work, which The Economist called “by far the best thing on management published this year.” Also: the secrets of Basecamp, the magic of sleep, the sameness of agencies’ portfolio sites, why Basecamp doesn’t user test, and more. Note: We apologize for Jeffrey's audio quality in this episode, but Jason Fried says so many smart things we decided we had to share this conversation anyway. It's worth it! Links for this episode:Jason Fried (@jasonfried) | Twitter Basecamp: Project Management & Team Communication Software It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780062874788: Amazon.com: Books The 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999) Jason Fried – Medium Signal v. Noise Jason Fried (Author of Rework) Jason Fried | Speaker | TED Amazon.com: Remote: Office Not Required eBook: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Kindle Store Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: 9780307463746: Amazon.com: Books Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman: 9780578012810: Amazon.com: Books
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Episode 181: Last Agency Standing – with Clearleft’s Andy Budd
52 min
311/18/2025Web design pioneer, Clearleft chief executive, and UX thought leader Andy Budd chats with Big Web Show host Jeffrey Zeldman about the failings and triumphs of our design community over the past 20 years, why the success of design thinking killed the market for design studios, and how to reinvent your studio or agency for today’s market. Links for this episode:Andy Budd | Clearleft Andy Budd::Blogography Andy Budd (@andybudd) | Twitter Strategic Design & Innovation Consultancy | Clearleft Homepage | UX London 2019 UX London (@UXLondon) | Twitter Home New York | Leading Design Conference 2019 LeadingDesignConf (@LDconf) | Twitter DigitalBrighton (@DigitalBrighton) | Twitter Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). CacheFly (Learn more at http://5by5.CacheFly.com)
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Episode 180: Where AI Meets IA: Improving Digital Personalization with Jeffrey MacIntyre
46 min
311/18/2025Jeffrey MacIntyre, a long-time independent UX consultant and researcher specializing in thoughtful digital personalization, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. The two Jeffreys discuss personalization and its intersection with AI, the business opportunity of responsible personalization, aligning personalization with business operations, the secret history of berry picking, the value of a good taxonomy, personalization versus customization, avoiding the “creep” factor, and much more. A worthwhile episode for business executives and marketers as well as the designers and coders who serve them. Links for this episode:Bucket | Personalize with poise. Product Strategy for Content Initiatives | Predicate The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques Twitter - Jeff MacIntyre Bucket (@ThisIsBucket) | Twitter Bucket Studio Brought to you by: ZipRecrutier (Visit the link to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE). .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations). Linode (Visit the link and get $20 credit when you use promo code 'bigweb2018').
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Episode 179: The Future and Past of Web Typography with Jason Pamental
78 min
311/18/2025Long-time (since 1994) web design practitioner Jason Pamental, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. For more than an hour, the two designers geek out over responsive typography, the history of type on the web, and the explosive creative potential of the new variable fonts. Multiple Masters. FF Meta. Storing the offsets of the curve points. The three second timeout. Why FOUT is a feature, not a bug. Compensating for the differences between the web font and the backup font. The tragedy of Typecast, the new hope of Figma. Adidas. Nick Sherman. Paula Scher. Mandy Michael. And more. Links for this episode:Hi, I’m Jason | Responsive Web Typography Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web: Jason Pamental: 9781491907092: Amazon.com: Books Variable Fonts | Responsive Web Typography The evolution of typography with variable fonts: an introduction | Responsive Web Typography About Jason | Responsive Web Typography Jason Pamental (@jpamental) | Twitter Variable Fonts Experiments - a Collection by Mandy Michael on CodePen The New School: Year One — Pentagram David Jonathan Ross (@djrrb) | Twitter Bello | Typekit An Event Apart: Orlando 2018 Special Edition Web Design & UX Conference Figma: the collaborative interface design tool. Design with web fonts in the browser - Typecast AmbientLightSensor - Web APIs | MDN Jason Pamental – Medium Jason Pamental on CodePen jpamental (Jason Pamental) · GitHub Jason Pamental (@jpamental) • Instagram photos and videos very able fonts Brought to you by: .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations).
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Episode 178: Pay attention to that woman behind the curtain – with Katel LeDu
64 min
311/18/2025Katel LeDu, Co-founder of the No, You Go podcast and CEO of A Book Apart, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest. Topics include: Getting comfortable putting yourself out there when you’re really more of a behind-the-scenes person. Starting a podcast. The life of a photo director at National Geographic. Asking for help. Community outreach—diversity and inclusion. What it’s like to have your therapist as a guest on your podcast. Leading by example. Walking the walk. Finding new authors and new voices. Imposter anxiety and narcissism. Links for this episode:No, You Go – A weekly podcast about ambition, friendship, and feminism. Posts – No, You Go A Book Apart, Brief books for people who design, write, and code. Katel LeDû (@theledu) | Twitter No, You Go (@noyougoshow) | Twitter Brought to you by: .TECH Domains (Visit the link and use the code TBWS to get 90% off on 1 & 5 year registrations). Linode (Visit the link and get $20 credit when you use promo code 'bigweb2018').