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NotesFrom The Edge
Simon CollisonEdge of the Web, July 2011
@colly colly.com
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edgethe
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Inspiration
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Donovan Claus Sharapova
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Part one
The individual
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Strengths & values
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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
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Learning
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The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything.
Linda Holmes
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Craftsmanship
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Cra!smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
Cra!smanship
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Our tools
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Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers, they help us bring our ideas to fruition.
Our tools
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Inquiry
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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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Think smarter
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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
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Part two
The wider web
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Visual grammar
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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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Mistakes
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Those who never made a mistake never made anything.
Proverb
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Patterns &interactions
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The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media.
Jason Santa Maria
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The frame
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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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http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/
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Systems
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We don’t design web pages.We design systems.
Systems
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http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/
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Vocabulary
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It's my belief that 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
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Responsive
Web Design
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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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What next?
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We are the web. We are the makers, the explorers, the end users.
What next?
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Finally
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