It’s a cornucopia of fall favorites!

• A 2016 SRCCON session inspired by Design for Real Life looked at how digital and interactive journalists can incorporate empathy into the design process for news apps.
• Find out how Chris Coyier and his team built CodePen.
• Check out the entries to the 10K Apart challenge—showing web experiences delivered in 10KB (or less) that work without JavaScript. Browse the project gallery.
• Shop Talk Show put together an author panel to talk about what it takes to make books.
• CSS Layout news, CSS Grid tutorial videos, and stories from twenty years in the web from Rachel Andrew.
• On progressive web apps and why you shouldn’t forget everything you’ve learned about web design—from Jeremy Keith.
• Aarron Walter discusses why “getting out of the office is product management,” on the This Is Product Management podcast.
• Nine speakers and one special guest (an attendee who’s been to 10 shows!) look back at a decade of An Event Apart.
• Dan Mall talks about the importance of accountability.
• The Responsive Web Design podcasts hosts great guests Ohio Certified Sites and the Australian Tax Office–and round out their 101st episode by asking, “how did this even happen?” Find out if they know he answer!

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We’re so excited to share our twentieth title (!), JavaScript for Web Designers, by Mat Marquis—now available for purchase!

Mat “Wilto” Marquis works to make the web a bit more inclusive every day—even on his birthday. He’s put all his JavaScript expertise (and secrets) into one sweet little book. Read it and any doubts you might have about working with the spec will melt away.

Paperbacks ship on Monday 10/3 and ebooks are available immediately. Buy this book as part of a pack and save 15%!

We’re delighted to announce book packs! These new collections are expertly curated to help you find the right books for your project, team, or interest. Each book pack includes a variety of favorite (or maybe undiscovered!) Standard and/or Brief titles.

Bonus: save when you buy a bunch—every pack comes with a great discount! Grab one of our first sets:

• Responsive Web Design
• Design Business
• Front-End Fundamentals
• Compassionate Design
• Design for Any Device

Whatever the topic or theme, find your pack and read exactly what you need.

Sharpen those pencils and fill your TrapperKeeper to the brim with this list of fine favorites from August:

• Check out this (updated) comprehensive reading list for and by designers, courtesy InVision.
• NPR shares how they use Designing for Real Life to design news products with empathy.
• Find out how and where to watch “What Comes Next Is the Future,” a story of the web–how it came to be, where it’s been, and where it’s going—as told by the people who build it.
• Learning SVG from Chris Coyier is as awesome as it sounds. Hear more about his new book Practical SVG on the Non Breaking Space Show and Shop Talk Show.
• Our friends at Shopify offer their take on 20 web designers and developers you should be following on Twitter.
• In “The way we workshop,” Jeremy Keith talks about he and the team at Clearleft collaborate on projects.
• Issue 15 of Offscreen magazine highlights the Eric Meyer’s work in laying out an approach for building a more compassionate web experience.
• Erika Hall talks with Rosenfeld Media about “The Real Point of Research.”
• Catch up on Responsive Web Design podcast’s latest interviews with University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Texas State , and Google Fonts.
• Dan Mall kicked off the biggest design system project he’s ever worked on—take a look.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

July wraps up with a summer crop of fantastic faves:

• Whether you venture far or near, Rachel Andrew’s “Itinerant Geek” is chocked-full of great travel tips, from what to know before you go to leveling up lounging.
• The Berndt Group reviews Design for Real Life.
• Watch “Content in a Zombie Apocalypse,” Karen McGrane’s talk from An Event Apart. And listen to her interview with Paul Ford on the Track Changes podcast, as they cover nightmare pitch meetings, introductory email ettiquette, and more.
• Eric Meyer asks us to “Pokéstop and Think,” about how we might not always know the societally correct thing to do.
• Find out how Jeremy Keith opened this year’s CSS Day in Amsterdam.
• Catch up on Responsive Web Design podcast’s latest interviews with Cincinnati Art Museum, Vox Media Performance, Communist Party USA, and America’s Test Kitchen.
• What it means to be responsible as a designer, and what it really takes to save the world: Mike Monteiro takes the podium.
• Celebrating ten years of An Event Apart, speakers were asked what they were doing a decade ago! In three parts: Part I, Part II, Part III.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We’re delighted to announce that our nineteenth title, Practical SVG, by Chris Coyier is now available!

Creator of CodePen and cohost of the Shop Talk Show podcast, Chris Coyier, makes it a seemingly effortless daily practice to teach SVG in an approachable—and fun!—way. We couldn’t be more tickled to share Chris’s first book with you.

Paperbacks ship within 24 hours and ebooks are available immediately. Buy this book with any other title(s), and save 15% or more.

June was in bloom with a bunch of great stuff from our authors and friends—check out the month’s roundup of faves:

• Aarron Walter talks with Psfk about why collaborative relationships are critical to building better products
• Talking about Design for Real Life on Delight, Sara Wachter-Boettcher points out that “there’s no checkbox for the human experience.”
• How to make sticky headers, the right way—from Jeremy Keith.
• Presentable podcast hosts Jason Santa Maria to discuss which typefaces the cool kids are using, licensing and subscription pricing, and geek out over web fonts and browser hacks.
• Ever wondered what goes into publishing your favorite tech/design books? Find out from Katel LeDû and Lou Rosenfeld on the Shop Talk show!
• The RWD podcast brings you fresh new interviews with Marvel App, Sonos, and WBUR.
• Scott Jehl and Filament Group introduce Snapper: a CSS Snap Points carousel. Scott also tackles enhancing optimistically.
• “Unstirring the Jam,” by Ethan Marcotte—on finding ways to make allusion to predecessors, acknowledge its influences, and learn from the past.
• A funny thing happened to them on the way to 2016: ten An Event Apart speakers talk about the last ten years.
• On Creative Bloom, Jeffrey Zeldman explores agency life, the changing web and why he had to get back to his roots.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

A member of our community needs our help: Carolyn Wood is a longtime web design community member, and former editor of our sister publication, A List Apart. She is a gifted, passionate, and tireless worker who has never sought the spotlight, and never asked anything for herself.

Due to catastrophic medical problems, Carolyn can no longer walk, and can barely use her hands. Her medical insurance doesn’t cover the $9,000/month facility where she is currently warehoused, and making matters worse, Carolyn’s husband has leukemia. Since neither Carolyn nor her husband can work any longer, their life savings are being eaten up while they suffer in separate solitudes and get sicker, not better.

Two things can turn some of this around: physical therapy and money. It will take the whole web design community pulling together—but, together, we can raise the money Carolyn needs. Please donate what you can, and share Carolyn’s story with your friends and social networks.

Donate today: https://www.youcaring.com/carolyn-wood-585895.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

May winds down with a dip in a deep pool of our favorites:

• A bunch of responsive web design podcast episodes are ready for a listen, including interviews with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development, Curbed and the hosts themselves, Karen and Ethan. Don’t miss ’em!
• Jeremy Keith unfolds the kinks in how we think about progressive web apps and shares anecdotes about a new program he’s working on at Clearleft, in the role of Content Buddy.
• A lovely interview with Scott Jehl from net magazine hit virtual stands this month.
• User Defenders podcast host Jason Ogle sits down with Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer to talk about how Design for Real Life became a book.
• Jeffrey Zeldman posits the idea of incorporating the role of Front-End Director. Is it right for your team?
• In a thoughtful post, Don Norman praises Josh Clark’s Designing for Touch for having intelligent design principles and an overall refreshing philosophy for touch and gesture. We think so, too!
• Erika Hall says, “let’s stop doing research!” You’ll see what she means—and it’s a rally cry for more evidence-based design.
• On how he ended up in design leadership and what challenges lie ahead—Aarron Walter on Ways We Work.
• Executive Director Katel LeDû chatted with the crew at Shopify, about how A Book Apart started and how we work as a completely remote team—on their podcast!
• Stay Enchanted with Jeffrey Zeldman: an interview in two parts on the User Defenders podcast (part 1, part 2).
• Making forms suck less, and other great advice for compassionate design—on UX Magazine, from Sara and Eric.
• Mandy Brown discusses diversity in the hiring process and why it’s so hard to do well, on Authentic Jobs’ Hired podcast.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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We are pleased to announce that Tina Lee joins us today as Managing Editor. In the last three years, Tina has worked with A Book Apart as one of our most trusted lead editors. She’ll share her expertise in writing and editorial strategy, along with bubbling enthusiasm for the publishing world—and she’s here to help us take another great step in building our house. You can find her here and @tinochop if you’d like to say hello!

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Get started on the right foot with essential guides to building a solid design process for yourself and your clients.

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Forget spring cleaning—how about a spring refresh? Today only: take 20% off all second editions when you use code REFRESH at checkout!

Find out what’s been updated, from contents to cover design: 

• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith & Rachel Andrew
• CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
• Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

April showers bring... a big crop of great new favorites:

• Design for Real Life is about compassionate UX and thoughtful design—and how to put into practice for every project. Find out how and why on UX Booth, in a new article from the authors.
• Sara Wachter-Boettcher shares even more insight into a kinder design process, including do’s and don’ts for more compassionate content.
• Rachel Andrew joins Jen Simmons to talk about what's happening with the new CSS specs, on The Web Ahead.
• On the User Defenders podcast, David Demaree talks about the beauty of simplicity, and how that thread is woven through his new book.
• On The Big Web Show, Aarron Walter talks about launching a design education initiative as part of his new gig at InVision, and more.
• Catch The Visual Minute with Dan Cederholm during last month’s SXSW festival.
• Get all the RWD podcast goodness you might’ve missed, including interviews with 99% Invisible on how project management comes into focus for RWD projects, KLM on improving customer satisfaction, and Edible magazine on the cost of going responsive.
• If you don’t read Jeremy Keith’s blog, you really should. His latest thoughts on the spirit of the indie web and conversational interfaces.
• Eric Meyer asks, ”is real CSS layout finally here?”
• Jeffrey Zeldman candidly chats with Alex Nemeroff about getting back into hands-on design, building business(es), and the path to becoming a designer.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We’ve been busy! So have our friends—check out this hearty roundup of our current favorite things:

• If you haven’t visited for a while, you’ll see why we’ve been busy! In the last two months, we’ve released Design for Real Life and Git for Humans, and we launched a new series called Briefs!
• Authors Sara Wachter-Boettcher & Eric Meyer wrote about how Design for Real Life came to be.
• A young woman asked Karen McGrane a few career day questions, and it’s making everyone’s day.
• In response to being called “too sensitive,” from Sara Wachter-Boettcher.
• Daniel Mall tells the story of creating Moodpik, in his post “Feel the world.”
• Did you know author Daniel Mall has super powers? Only the User Defenders podcast knows the secret. And find out Rachel Andrew’s design kryptonite!
• Dear Design Student offers much-needed guidance on “How to Have a Professional Conversation.”
• Watch “Getting to Good,” a keynote by Erika Hall from the 2016 O’Reilly Design Conference.
• Rachel Andrew helps you get ready for things. Of note, “Getting Ready for HTTP/2: A Guide for Web Designrs and Developers.”
• The Responsive Web Design podcast hosts another excellent guest, talking with Celestial Seasonings about their redesign project.
• Shopify explains why they rented an office in NYC (at A Space Apart) and gave it away for free.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We’re thrilled to announce that our eighteenth title, Design for Real Life, by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher is now available!

Sara and Eric have been educating us as an industry, on how to design with compassion in an effort to reach more people, more of the time. We admire their work and we’re very proud to help bring this book to life.

Paperbacks ship in 1–3 days and ebooks are available immediately. Buy this book with any other title(s), and save 15% or more.

The wait is over! We’re proud to present a second edition of the cornerstone of our publishing house, HTML5 for Web Designers.

Cowritten by Rachel Andrew and Jeremy Keith, the second edition highlights all that’s changed in the evolving spec and how to keep harnessing its power. From wrangling JavaScript APIs to revisiting the canvas and managing rich media, this updated original continues to be the perfect primer.

On sale now—paperbacks ship by Monday and ebooks are available immediately!

We’re incredibly excited to announce that our seventeenth title, David Demaree’s Git for Humans, is now on sale! We’re proud to share David’s eloquent words, illuminating Git in a whole new way.

Paperbacks ship in 1–3 days and ebooks are available immediately. Buy this book with any other title(s), and save 15% or more!

Our authors and friends haven’t wasted any time getting things going this year! Find out what they’re up to in the latest roundup:

• Rachel Andrew doesn’t only write and talk about how to Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout, she helps folks generally tackle CSS, through customizable workshops.
• Author of the newly released Pricing Design, Dan Mall, talks with Channel 9 about his approach to mentoring.
• Jeremy Keith evaluates the effectiveness of the hamburger menu.
• Mule Design (cofounded by Erika Hall and Mike Monteiro) talk about how they helped Wikipedia celebrate their fifteenth anniversary.
• New on the RWD podcast: interviews with Walmart’s principal UX designers, and sustainable home product retailer MIO.
• An Event Apart kicks off an amazing year of events in Nashville this March—check out the 2016 calendar!
• A List Apart looks “Back to the Future in 2016,” with some wonderful anecdotes for the new year from community friends.
• Dorm Room Tycoon brings you an interview with Aarron Walter, about Designing for Emotion and how to build things people want.
• Have you ever wanted to see everything Mobile Design & Data as curated by Luke Wroblewski in one place? We thought so.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

It’s no secret that we appreciate style and brevity. We love the succinct way in which our authors illuminate tricky subjects and share invaluable strategies—so you’re free to put ’em right to work.

We want to help you do more, sooner. We’re thrilled to announce a new (even shorter!) series of books for people who work on the web.

Introducing Briefs: ebook-only guides to essential fundamentals, of-the-moment techniques, or deep nerdery on a single aspect of a topic.

We’re delighted to share our first two Briefs with you, Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout from Rachel Andrew and Pricing Design from Dan Mall.

Whatever the book, you’re only a quick break away from learning vital, practical know-how.

Happy new year, we’re so happy you’re here! And now, for our first roundup of favorite things in 2016:

• As Ethan and Karen so eloquently note: RWD EOY OMG (a podcast episode recapping the highlights of 2015).
• Equally simply put, “The Year in Design,” from Jeffrey Zeldman.
• On Dear Design Student: Dealing with an absent decision maker during times of review, and more.
• From last year, but ever-timely, “More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait,” from Scott Jehl.
• Aarron Walter explains the importance of research and designing with emotion, in an interview with Dorm Room Tycoon (drt.fm).
• On the MS Dev Show podcast, Karen McGrane talks about the responsive web design process.
• Jeffrey Zeldman writes, “Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then and Now,” asking us to think about how we deal with the increasingly slippery digital ground beneath us.
• Reader-friend Simon Pan says this is the only UX reading list you might ever need! And, yes, we’re on it (blush).
• Even though the wonderful Pastry Box Project has closed, you can still lose yourself in their lovely stream of content.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

It’s beginning to look a lot like the last roundup of our favorites for the year!

• Stay tuned next month; we’ll have new stock and exciting announcements!
• For some sweet holiday cheer, check out this year’s holiday gift guides from Shop Talk Show and SVA NYC Interaction Design Program.
• Read excerpts from our fantastic two latest releases, Going Responsive and Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles—courtesy our friends at A List Apart!
• We can’t think of a better person to explore “The Magic of User Experiences,” than our friend Josh Clark.
• Check out the only advent calendars better than chocolate, from 24 Ways and GatherContent.
• Ethan Marcotte shares insight into his process and “Putting My Patterns through Their Paces.”
• Karen McGrane takes The Web Ahead podcast on the adventure of going responsive and talks UX, design, strategy, and more, with the Web Design Ledger.
• An Event Apart cofounder Eric Meyer reflects on a decade of talking, events, and memories.
• Progressive enhancement shouldn’t be an added extra; Jeremy Keith explores why.
• The Responsive Web Design podcast sits down with the US Digital Service to hear about the US Web Design Standards, and with Facebook to chat about mobile and responsive design.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

Don’t be shy, get yourself a heaping helping of our latest favorites:

• We’ve launched THREE(!) new books in the last month: Going Responsive by Karen McGrane, Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles by Ethan Marcotte, and Designing for Touch by Josh Clark. Check them all out!
• The ninth annual Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards will be celebrated around the world on November 30, 2015. Learn how to join in!
• The Responsive Web Design podcast brings you stellar interviews with Chris Coyier and Katie Kovalcin as they talk about the CodePen redesign, and Christian Skotte and Mark Llobrera as they talk about Science Friday’s content-first process.
• Learn how Jeremy Keith and Clearleft are changing the way they hire and work with interns.
• Catch the latest Spec.fm podcast episode, Helvetica, Helvetica, Helvetica (feat. Jason Santa Maria).
• Don’t miss Scott Jehl’s talk, “Delivering Responsibly,” from this year’s Fronteers Conf—now on Vimeo!
• Last week on The Big Web Show, Josh Clark talks with Jeffrey Zeldman about his new book (hint: we know where you can get a copy).

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles and Karen McGrane’s Going Responsive are now available in our store. We’re incredibly proud to have worked with Ethan and Karen on their first books, and now they’re bringing you another set of must-have reads. We couldn’t be more excited to help them do that!

Building on the concepts in his groundbreaking Responsive Web Design, Ethan now guides you through developing and using design patterns so you can let your responsive layout reach more devices (and people) than ever before.

Karen McGrane effortlessly defined the principles of Content Strategy for Mobile. She’s helped dozens of teams effectively navigate responsive projects, from making the case to successful launch. Now, she pulls it all together to help you go responsive—wherever you are in the process.

No matter your discipline or methodology, Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles and Going Responsive are essential to any work you do on the web.

Ebooks are available immediately and paperbacks ship next week. Buy these books together and save 15%! Learn more.

Heading into the giving season, we just want to share all this goodness with you—in our latest favorites roundup:

• Brad Frost shares his thoughts on writing the foreword for our latest book, Designing for Touch.
• Karen McGrane and Ethan Marcotte bring you so many great new podcast episodes, talking about responsive web design with folks from The Toast, NPR Community, and Serious Eats. And check out their piece about working with The Toast on Responsive Design, Patterns, and Performance.
• On Dear Design Student, Mike Monteiro walks us through How to Read a Client E-mail and Juliette Cezzar asks, “Why is so much of design school a waste of time?”
• Aarron Walter’s latest talk from Beyond Tellerrand, “Building Great Design Teams,” is now on Vimeo!
• Scott Jehl shares highlights from his talks on Delivering Responsibly.
• Watch “This Is the Golden Age of Design!... and We’re Screwed”—Mike Monteiro’s latest talk from WebDagene.
• Catch up on all your favorite The Big Web Show podcast episodes, hosted by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

Update: the delay has been resolved and all books are shipping normally. Thanks for bearing with us!

Our sincerest apologies: due to an unforeseen delay with our freight provider, Designing for Touch paperbacks have not shipped out to customers.

If you placed an order for book #14, books will start to ship by 11/11. You’ll receive an email notification with shipping confirmation and tracking details for your order.

If you have any questions about your order, don’t hesitate to contact us at support@abookapart.com.

The wait is over! We’re very excited to announce that Josh Clark’s Designing for Touch is now available in the store.

We’re just delighted to help bring Josh’s incredibly esteemed work to life, and we hope you’ll read, use, implement, and enjoy all this book has to offer.

Ebooks are available immediately and paperbacks ship next week. Buy this book with any other title(s), and save 15% or more! Learn more.

We’re preparing to bring you tons of good stuff this fall. But first—how about a quick roundup of some of our faves?

• Very exciting news: book no. 14, Designing for Touch, by Josh Clark, launches on October 29!
• Erika Hall gets to the point with “7 Stressful Interactions With Impersonal Online Systems.”
• Don‘t skip this read: “Web Performance Today,” from Jeffrey Zeldman.
• You know our authors are the best and brightest. See “How They Got There,” the wonderful book from Khoi Vinh—now in gorgeous hardcover! (Featuring interviews with Dan Cederholm, Erika Hall, and Karen McGrane.)
• Did you know that A List Apart open-sources the code that powers alistapart.com? Check it out.
• On the Responsive Web Design Podcast, new episodes include interviews with The Great Discontent, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and BC Transit. Listen to them all.

Check out the previous roundup and stay tuned here for more, or find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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It’s been a busy, productive year around the ABA offices—we can’t believe fall is here and that we’re already cruising toward the holidays! We’ve spent much of 2015 refining our publishing process, expanding our network of amazing editors and authors, and producing impeccable books we can’t wait to share with you.

Even though we’ve only got a few months left in the year, we’ve been hard at work to bring you some seriously wonderful reads. To start, we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that Josh Clark’s Designing for Touch is forthcoming. We’re going to print as we speak, and we’ll be updating you with an on-sale date just as soon as we can.

The rest, well, is yet to come (very soon!). Watch this space for more exciting updates in the coming weeks, and don’t miss any of the great stuff we have on tap before the new year.