ATOMIC DESIGN@brad_frost

PAGES GRAPHIC? WRITTEN PAGE? WEB
PAGE? BOTH? http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandora_6666/4927865092/

WHAT IS AN INTERFACE MADE
OF?

http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/patterns.html

Design systems, not pages. -Andy
Clarke http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/walls_come_tumbling_down_presentation_slides_and_transcript/

http://foundation.zurb.com/

getbootstrap.com

THESE THINGS ARE GREAT, BUT...

FRAMEWORK POTENTIAL PITFALLS ๏ One-size-fits-all
๏ Lookalike issues ๏ Potential for bloat/unneeded stuff ๏ Might not do everything you need ๏ Compatibility with existing sites ๏ Subscribe to someone else’s structure, naming, style

Tiny Bootstraps, for every client.
-Dave Rupert http://daverupert.com/2013/04/responsive-deliverables/

Responsive deliverables should look a
lot like fully-functioning Twitter Bootstrap-style systems custom tailored for your clients’ needs. -Dave Rupert http://daverupert.com/2013/04/responsive-deliverables/

http://maban.co.uk/projects/front-end-style-guides/

BENEFITS OF FRONT-END STYLE GUIDES
๏ Promotes consistency and cohesion ๏ Easier to test ๏ Better workflow ๏ Creates a shared vocabulary ๏ Useful reference http://24ways.org/2011/front-end-style-guides/

http://brettjankord.com/projects/style-guide-boilerplate/

http://patternprimer.adactio.com/

http://barebones.paulrobertlloyd.com

http://style.codeforamerica.org/

http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/

http://yelp.com/styleguide

http://www.starbucks.com/static/reference/styleguide/
http://www.starbucks.com/static/reference/styleguide/

I LOVE THESE.

MO’ PATTERNS, MO’ PROBLEMS ๏
Time consuming to create ๏ Treated as a auxiliary project ๏ Often too abstract ๏ Seen only as a designer/developer tool ๏ Often created after a project launches ๏ Often incomplete/only serving present cases ๏ Lacking a clear methodology

ATOMIC DESIGN

2H2 + O2 → 2H20
C + O2 → CO2 CH4 + O2 → CO2 + H2O C8H18 + O2 → CO2 + H20 C2H6 + O2 → CO2 + H2O

2H2+O2→2H20

http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html

ENTER KEYWORD SEARCH THE SITE
SEARCH

ENTER KEYWORD SEARCH THE SITE
SEARCH

You can create good experiences
without knowing the content. What you can’t do is create good experiences without knowing your content structure. What is your content made from, not what your content is. -Mark Boulton http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/structure-first-content-always

ABSTRACT CONCRETE

ABSTRACT CONCRETE
CREATORS CLIENTS

REFERENCE BUILD REVIEW

The idea of designing components
like this, out of context and without layout, might sound strange— particularly if you’ve been used to designing Web pages the traditional way. But we’ve been abstracting design ideas like this for the longest time, for example in our use of mood boards and even the cropped designs we find on sites like Dribbble. -Andy Clarke http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/an-extract-from-designing-atoms-and-elements

DAVE OLSEN@dmolsen

WHAT PATTERN LAB IS ๏
A design system builder ๏ A comprehensive custom component library ๏ A pattern starter kit ๏ A practical viewport resizer ๏ An annotation tool

WHAT PATTERN LAB AIN’T ๏
A UI framework ๏ Language, library, or style dependent ๏ Incredibly rigid ๏ “Just” a pattern library, but also not a production-ready static site generator

MOLECULE GUTS code block! !
<div class="block block-inset"> <div class="b-thumb"> {{> atoms-img-landscape-4x3 }} </div> <div class="b-text"> <h2>{{ headline.short }}</h2> </div> </div> !

BASIC INCLUDE code block! !
! ! ! ! ! ! {{> molecules-block-inset }} !

ORGANISM GUTS code block! !
! <header class="header" role="banner"> {{> atoms-header-ad }} {{> atoms-logo }} {{> molecules-primary-nav }} {{> molecules-search }} {{> molecules-social-nav }} </header>

BASIC INCLUDE code block! !
! ! ! {{> organisms-header }}

TEMPLATE GUTS code block{{> organisms-header
}} <main role="main"> <div class="l-two-col"> <div class="l-main"> {{> organisms-article-body }} {{> molecules-social-share }} {{> organisms-comments }} </div><!--end l-main--> ! <div class="l-sidebar"> {{> organisms-related-posts }} {{> organisms-recent-tweets }} </div><!--end l-sidebar--> </div><!--end l-two-col--> </main><!--End role=main--> {{> organisms-footer }} !

CONTENT STRUCTURE ACTUAL CONTENT

TEMPLATE GUTS code block{{# hero
}} {{> molecules-block-hero }} {{/ hero}} ! <div class="g g-3up"> {{# touts}} <div class="gi"> {{> molecules-inset-block }} </div> {{/ touts}} </div>

PIPING IN REAL CONTENT WITH
JSON code block! ! "hero" : { "img": { "landscape-16x9": { "src": "images/sample/mountains.jpg", "alt": "Mountains" } }, "headline" : { "medium" : "Top 10 mountin ranges" } }

PIPING IN REAL CONTENT WITH
JSON code block"touts" : [ { "img": { "landscape-4x3": { "src": "../../images/sample/climber.jpg", "alt": "Climber" } }, "headline" : { "short" : "Extreme climbing tips" } }, { "img": { "landscape-4x3": { "src": “../../images/sample/stream.jpg", "alt": "Stream" } }, "headline" : { "short" : “Stream Hiking" }

VIEWER

320PX.

320PX.
480PX.

320PX.
480PX.
768PX.

320PX.
480PX.
768PX.
1024PX.

320PX. 480PX. 768PX. 1024PX. THE
FOLD.

320PX. 480PX. 768PX. 1024PX. THE
FOLD. OH GOD THE FOLD.

RESOURCE
http://bradfrostweb.com/demo/ish/

ANNOTATIONS

code block! ! { "el":
".header", "title": "Header", "title": "The header is a global element…" }, { "el": ".nav", "title": "Primary Navigation", "title": "The navigation is…" } ANNOTATIONS WITH JSON

LINEAGE

A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF
๏ Code view (Mustache and rendered HTML) ๏ Pattern status ๏ Auto-refresh ๏ Page follow ๏ Future: plugins

http://patternlab.io

IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG WITH
PATTERN LAB, BLAME @DMOLSEN.

SET EXPECTATIONS

http://www.pointswestav.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Projector-meeting.jpg

As an industry, we sell
websites like paintings. Instead, we should be selling beautiful and easy access to content, agnostic of device, screen size, or context. -Dan Mall http://danielmall.com/articles/the-post-psd-era/

COMPLEX NAVIGATIONDEATH TO THE WATERFALL

GATHER

http://stylifyme.com/

http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/interface-inventory/

๏ Document your interface ๏
Promote consistency ๏ Establish which elements will be challenging to translate into a responsive environment ๏ Lay the groundwork for a future style guide/pattern library INTERFACE INVENTORY

http://blog.easy-designs.net/archives/evernote-for-interface-inventories/

ESTABLISH DIRECTION

RESOURCE
http://styletil.es/

ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES

CONTENT STRUCTURE ACTUAL CONTENT

http://trentwalton.com/2011/07/14/content-choreography/

WHEN YOU’RE FINISHED CHANGING YOU’RE
FINISHED.

THIS IS FUN!

MOBILE WEB

THANKS!@brad_frost