Notes from the Edge

NotesFrom The EdgeSimon CollisonEdge of the Web, July 2011@colly colly.com

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Inspiration

Donovan Claus Sharapova

Part oneThe individual

Strengths & values

To progress and to create work ofsubstance or even greatness, weeach must start by knowing ourvalues, our strengths, and the levelof expertise we seekStrengths and values

Learning

The sad, beautiful fact thatwe’re all going to miss almosteverything.Linda Holmes

Craftsmanship

Cra smanship is a basic humanimpulse: the desire to do a jobwell for its own sake.Cra smanship

Our tools

Tools are the scaﬀold for what weproduce, the enablers, they help usbring our ideas to fruition.Our tools

Inquiry

Inquiring beyond the “necessary”to explore other areas, look atthings diﬀerently, and bring theseﬁndings back into our work.Inquiry

Think smarter

Individual lines of inquiry are whatwill, more than anything else, driveus to develop greater maturity ofthe discipline of web design.Think smarter

Part twoThe wider web

Visual grammar

A rich alphabet of components such asline and point, structure, color, shapes,rhythm, and movement, which we useto shape our messagesVisual grammar

Mistakes

Those who never made a mistakenever made anything.Proverb

Patterns &interactions

The screen brings with it diﬀerentkinds of challenges for visual design,some of which occur exclusively ininteractive media.Jason Santa Maria

The frame

The frame of reference marks theouter limits of a design and deﬁnesan area within which the createdelements and le -over blank space,if any, all work together.The frame

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/

http://wallswaps.com/

Systems

We don’t design web pages.We design systems.Systems

http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/

Vocabulary

Its my belief that our communityhas a shared responsibility toexpand this visual language as itapplies to the ebb and ﬂow of theweb, and in turn evolve our wri enand verbal vocabulary.Vocabulary

ResponsiveWeb Design

The terms responsive and adaptiveare distinct yet related, and haveevolved naturally from outdatedweb-based layout terminologyResponsive web design

What next?

We are the web. We are the makers,the explorers, the end users.What next?

Finally

Theextraordinary in the ordinary

Thank you Simon Collison @colly h p://colly.com

Notes from the Edge

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