Eric Meyer
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An Event Apart Chicago 2018
Design Doesn’t Care What You Think Information Looks Like
Sometimes convention is sufficient. Sometimes it’s not.
Hello! My name is Rob Weychert. I’m an editorial experience designer at ProPublica, which means I work on the overall user experience of the ProPublica site as well as working on custom art direction and layout for some of our big feature stories.
ProPublica is my first newsroom, but I’ve been designing websites for a long time, long enough to have had a good number of perspective-rattling epiphanies about what web design can be. The one… See more →
An Event Apart Chicago 2008
An Event Apart Chicago 2007
An Event Apart Boston 2007
An Event Apart New York 2006
Generation Z
A recent conversation with Eric Meyer about his history degree got me thinking about the web standards community’s seemingly anomalous lack of formal education in web technology and design. Indeed, some of the most influential people in the web standards world spent their school days and/or early careers scrutinizing subjects that have little or nothing to do with divs, hex values, kerning, or color theory. Jeffrey Zeldman has an MA in Writing, and worked in… See more →