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New Jun 4, 2026
Remembrance of zeldman.coms past
Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design. The post Remembrance...
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New Jun 1, 2026
She’s the Boss.
She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance. The post She’s the Boss. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New May 24, 2026
Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything”
Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate an...
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New May 24, 2026
Lest we forget
“GIs in Paris” by Floyd Davis. Davis served as a Life Magazine artist during WWII, where he was stationed in Paris, France. The post Lest we forg...
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New Apr 20, 2026
My UX Superpower: Nothing Works!
Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After stints in academia, journalism, advertising, and music, I po...
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New Apr 17, 2026
Pete’s Presence
It was a spring that felt more like winter last week in New York; suddenly it feels like summer. After my air-conditioned bedroom, the living room and kitchen was like a walk-in oven. A weirdly ye...
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New Apr 15, 2026
The Courage to Stop
Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. The post The Courage to Stop appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Apr 10, 2026
Jimmy Carter was right
What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, an...
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New Apr 9, 2026
Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers
The best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot. Wisdom from Lucas Radke. The post Handwritten...
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New Mar 24, 2026
Dine ’n em-dash
The best defense is to write humanly. The post Dine ’n em-dash appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Mar 22, 2026
RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto
Bluesky can't abandon the developers who made a bet on AT Proto, so they should give the protocol to a standards body while catching up on UX.—Dave Winer The post RSS creator...
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New Mar 16, 2026
Too Many Notes
Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an...
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New Mar 13, 2026
A die-cut above
Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combining fe...
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New Mar 5, 2026
My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist
Remembrance of beats passed. The post My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Mar 3, 2026
What a year that was.
Know your web design history. The post What a year that was. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Mar 2, 2026
Advice for job seekers
Pitching isn’t bragging. The post Advice for job seekers appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Feb 19, 2026
American healthcare
Cooling my heels at the drugstore. The post American healthcare appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Feb 16, 2026
The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
Less, but better? Not this week. The post The salad bar theory of UX professionalism appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Feb 10, 2026
Works in Progress
New tunes from an old maker. The post Works in Progress appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents....
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New Feb 9, 2026
Claude Code for Designers
FIRST, the disclaimers: Some of my favorite writers—folks who are as anti-fascist and pro-democracy as they come—publish on Substack, but I read and recommend their work less and less frequently, be...