Embracing the Ebb and Flow

Simon Collison

October 10, 2011

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1. Embracing the ebb and flow Simon Collison Frontend, Oslo, October

   2011 @colly colly.com

2. Inspiration

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4. Part one The individual

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6. Strengths & values

7. To progress and to create work of substance or even

   greatness, we each must start by knowing our values, our strengths, and the level of expertise we seek Strengths and values

8. Learning

9. The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss

   almost everything. Linda Holmes
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12. Craftsmanship

13. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to

    do a job well for its own sake. Cra smanship
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15. Our tools

16. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers,

    they help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
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19. Inquiry

20. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at

    things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Inquiry
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22. Think smarter

23. Individual lines of inquiry are what will, more than anything

    else, drive us to develop greater maturity of the discipline of web design. Think smarter

24. Part two The wider web

25. Visual grammar

26. A rich alphabet of components such as line and point,

    structure, color, shapes, rhythm, and movement, which we use to shape our messages Visual grammar
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28. Mistakes

29. Those who never made mistakes never made anything. Proverb

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31. Patterns & interactions

32. The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for

    visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Jason Santa Maria

33. The frame

34. The frame of reference marks the outer limits of a

    design and defines an area within which the created elements and le -over blank space, if any, all work together. The frame
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39. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/

40. http://wallswaps.com/

41. http://wallswaps.com/

42. Systems

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

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

46. Vocabulary

47. Our community has a shared responsibility to expand this visual

    language as it applies to the ebb and flow of the web, and in turn evolve our wri en and verbal vocabulary. Vocabulary

48. Responsive Web Design

49. The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and

    have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design
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52. What next?

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54. We are the web. We are the makers, the explorers,

    the end users. What next?

55. Finally

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57. The in the ordinary extraordinary

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