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Non Breaking Space Show

Non Breaking Space Show

Weekly podcast seeking out the best, brightest, and smartest creatives to find out why they do what they do and how they did it. Free trial plan, no CC required.

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Keith J. Grant stops by to talk with Christopher about his new book, CSS in Depth, and what he’s discovered about the design language of the web during the writing process.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 0:50 How’d you get involved with the web?
  • 2:45 What was your talk about at CSS Dev Conf?
  • 4:10 Setting font sizes to pixels vs ems/rems.
  • 7:50 What was the process for writing your book?
  • 12:50 What CSS topics did you have to leave out?
  • 16:10 Covering CSS grid and float in the same book?
  • 17:10 What’s sub grid?
  • 23:20 Why is CSS the most neglected part of the web stack?
  • 26:30 What’s new about CSS that you learned writing this book?
  • 28:00 Do you just port animations over to JavaScript now?

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Simon St. Laurent stops by the show to discuss with Christopher the winners of Comic-Con San Diego, the finding of a new shape, and the bittersweet tanking of social media companies Twitter and Facebook failing to grow revenue off our data.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 2:05 Story #8 — Ranking San Diego Comic Con 2018 Trailers, From Worst to Best
  • 24:10 Story #7 — Meet the 11% of Americans who don’t use the internet
  • 35:20 Story #6 — Burned-out millennials are quitting lucrative jobs
  • 42:10 Story #5 — Facebook’s forecast for the future looks suddenly bleak
  • 47:15 Story #4 — Twitter shares drop 19 percent after reporting declining monthly active users
  • 50:30 Story #3 — Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots
  • 55:20 Story #2 — Scientists discover a new shape and it’s been hiding inside your skin
  • 59:10 Story #1 — Liquid water ‘lake’ revealed on Mars

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Co-founder of Mule Design, Erika Hall, joins Christopher to talk about her new book, Conversational Design, and also about how Mule Design works with teams to communicate and design better and more collaboratively.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 1:20 What is conversational design?
  • 4:20 Conversations with robocalls
  • 9:50 People still love websites.
  • 13:10 Google and people are error tolerant unlike voice assistants.
  • 16:00 A book about as much about content strategy as conversational design
  • 18:00 How do you convince your boss to use this?
  • 24:45 Delightful / delight as a design term is a controversial term these days.
  • 31:20 How do you work with teams who create or discuss design systems into their products or services?
  • 35:00 Research is often used for confirmation biases
  • 39:30 People can sit next to each other and never collaborate
  • 43:30 People often have a tacit agreement to not point out when higher ups doing something wrong
  • 48:00 If it helps to have Mule Design come in and say the things people would get fired for saying, that’s a service we provide.
  • 51:30 What are some signs that your company or culture is successfully clicking?
  • 54:20 How can people find Erika Hall online?

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Simon St. Laurent joins Christopher Schmitt to discuss Amazon recording personal conversations, Uber closing self-driving operations, the rise of GDPR, the new “Solo” Star Wars movie, and Twitter mixing it up with politics.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 1:51 Story #1 — Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation.
  • 8:40 Story #2 — Baboon escapes cage at airport.
  • 11:05 Story #3 — Uber closes self driving operations in Arizona.
  • 18:50 Story #4 — The US is running out of bombs.
  • 20:35 Story #5 — GDPR.
  • 31:00 Story #6 — Star Wars’s Solo is out.
  • 39:50 Story #7 — President can’t block critics on Twitter.
  • 44:45 Story #8 — Look at your timeline 10 years ago.
  • 48:50 Story #9 — Twitter’s rules for campaign ads.

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Christopher Schmitt and Simon St. Laurent talk about your cousin’s DNA and the legal system, Apple getting out of routers, Avengers Infinity War, getting off Google Analytics and Facebook, and Flickr getting bought by Smugmug.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 1:50 Introductions
  • 6:30 Story #1 — Relative’s DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA’s office says
  • 13:40 Story #2 — Apple’s Done Making Routers
  • 25:30 Story #3 — Avengers: Infinity War smashing box office records
  • 46:50 Story #4 — Turning Off Google Analytics
  • 1:02:02 Story #5 — Zuckerberg’s comments in front of Congress
  • 1:09:15 Story #6 — Flickr gets bought by Smugmug

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Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Dr. Sean Brannon and Paul Schmitt. Dr. Brannon is Professor from the Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University; affiliated faculty to the Thomas D. Larson Transportation Institute (LTI); and Director of the Intelligent Vehicles and Systems Research Group. Paul Schmitt is Director of Automated Vehicles at MassRobotics and an invited expert to the White House on Autonomous Vehicles.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 2:16 Introductions
  • 3:50 The state of autonomous vehicles
  • 7:50 Laying groundwork to prevent confusion (types of autonomous cars)
  • 10:00 Level 5 vehicle updates
  • 12:35 Challenges of level 5 vehicles
  • 14:55 If level 4 (like Tesla) was popular enough, how would it effect traffic patterns?
  • 15:40 What is platooning?
  • 17:40 Rules for platooning.
  • 19:50 Testing on real roads with real drivers.
  • 21:40 Making eye contact with vehicless drivers.
  • 25:10 Sharing information between vehicles with Dedicated Short Range Radios
  • 28:55 How do you test driverless cars?
  • 31:15 Training autonomous vehicles
  • 33:40 We’re struggling with how safe is safe?
  • 39:25 How to make people feel comfortable with autonomous vehicles
  • 41:10 What kind of industries or niches can take advantage of autonomous vehicles?
  • 47:30 Vehicles will have different apps and customizing them.
  • 49:00 How will our road infrastructure change because of autonomous vehicles?
  • 53:10 Developing landmarks and sensors on the vehicles
  • 55:40 Human decision making is becoming the weak link.

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Brenda Storer returns! Brenda is a Front End Developer and Designer at thoughtbot. She recently won Best Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2017 New Orleans. Her talk focused on the topic of practical CSS grid layouts.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 1:40 Winning best of at CSS Dev Conf
  • 4:50 Prepping for a talk on CSS Grid
  • 11:00 What’s the difference between CSS Grid and Flexbox?
  • 17:10 Do we need to use Bootstrap anymore?
  • 26:25 CSS isn’t intuitive and CSS Grid helps make it easier to maintain.
  • 33:20 Solving real problems with Grid first.
  • 34:50 Pushing and testing the boundaries of CSS Grid
  • 40:12 What tools did you use to help construct Grid?
  • 41:25 Any complaints or issues with CSS Grid?
  • 47:20 Any final suggestions for CSS Grid?
  • 53:20 How can people find you on the internet?

Rachel Andrew returns! Rachel is a sought out expert on web design layout technologies like CSS Grid and Flexbox, an invited expert to CSS Working Group, and author of several books. Her latest book, The New CSS Layout, is out now from A Book Apart.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 2:05 Why did you write The New CSS Layout?
  • 4:30 What do you think of CSS display table layout in 2017?
  • 6:50 Any 3rd party item probably solves problems you’re not dealing with.
  • 10:00 Are people not learning or writing CSS these days?
  • 15:30 The challenges with CSS Grid.
  • 17:38 Where should developers go for help?
  • 20:00 What is a block formatting context?
  • 24:50 Using CSS multi-columns.
  • 28:00 Doing design without media queries
  • 30:00 Source Order vs. Display Order
  • 33:00 Views on fallbacks, feature queries
  • 35:50 Future of non-rectangular grid elements
  • 38:00 CSS Round display coming in the future
  • 39:10 What is Perch CMS and how might people use it?

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 2:34 What is a cyborg rights activist?
  • 12:55 General Data Protection Regulation discussion.
  • 17:30 A lot of us were lied to when we started out.
  • 24:25 We’ve replaced the publishing industry with the behavioral advertising industry.
  • 26:10 China has embraced capitalism as well.
  • 35:50 How do we inform people about data security?
  • 41:50 The revolving door, multistakeholderism, co-regulation, and a conversation with Eric Schmidt.
  • 1:00:00 Mastadon and decentralized networking and the city of Ghent.

Jason Pamental is the author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly Media. He recently won one of the Best Of awards for his web typography talk at the annual CSS Dev Conference 2017.


This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
  • UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now!

Time Jumps

  • 1:29 How was your CSS Dev Conf 2017 experience?
  • 6:20 Is there a sequel to Responsive Typography coming?
  • 7:30 Congrats on winning best of at CSS Dev Conf 2017
  • 9:00 Can you explain what variable fonts are?
  • 13:30 How do the savings come about using this technique?
  • 17:00 Is variable fonts a separate, new file format?
  • 20:20 Is a variable font a designation within WOFF2 or WOFF?
  • 22:30 Can I export variable font from an existing font?
  • 31:00 Building on the work of Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons
  • 37:20 What’s browser support like for variable fonts?
  • 41:50 Is @supports the key?
  • 43:15 Anything else you’re excited about with variable fonts?
  • 45:30 How can people get in touch with you if they have questions about variable fonts?