5. The goal of any information
design is to communicate a
specific message to the end
user in a way that is clear,
accessible, and easy to
understand.
THE INFORMATION DESIGN HANDBOOK, JENN + KEN VISOCKY O’GRADY
8. WIDGETS
• Drag & Drop
interface
• Flexible content
ordering
• Individually designed
content area
• Preserves design
integrity
• Not specifically for
sidebars
9.
10.
11. JQUERY MASONRY by David Desandro
http://desandro.com/resources/jquery-masonry
14. CUSTOM PAGE TEMPLATES
• Allow flexible design templates non-
designers can set
• Not limited to homepage, subpage, and
posts
• Can integrate widget areas,
conditionals, and custom styles
15. USAGE
Just add this to the top of any file:
<?php /*
Template Name: Zombie Template
*/ ?>
30. WIDOWS & ORPHANS
widow my husband died :[
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found thought, their mouths probably seize up.
hardest to understand about humans was their habit of
continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, After a few months' consideration and observation
as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If
seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought,
alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account their brains start working. After a while he
for this strange behaviour. for this strange behaviour. abandoned this one as well as being obstructively
If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he cynical.
orphan
i have a horrible red afro and no parents :[
31. PROOF DESIGNERS ARE SADISTS
A common mnemonic is
An orphan has no past; a widow has no future
or
An orphan is left behind, where as a widow
must go on alone
VIA WIKIPEDIA (I CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP)
32. WP TYPOGRAPHY
• Adds CSS classes to
ampersands, quotes,
etc.
• Transforms TM and
Registration marks
• Transform fractions to
appropriate entities
• Prevents widows orphans
39. CONTRIBUTE!
GATEKEEPERS: JANE WELLS, MATT THOMAS, JOHN O’NOLAN, BEN DUNKLE
• make.wordpress.org/ui
• Tuesdays at 2p eastern
• That means 11a western
• irc.freenode.net
#wordpress-ui
40. real name
CHELSEA OTAKAN
@chexee chexee@livelylabs.com
its alive!
nickname
DON’T not what i am doing right now
PANIC