the unbearable likeness of web design
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ask me questions @sarahsemark triggersandsparks.com/talks/likeness
does everything lookwhythe same?
anyway?how did we get here
tablesto infinity & beyond!
rescue!CSS to the
look goodweb design starts to
whereare we now?
It’s easy to build a website that looks good…
great…but it’s hardto build a website that looks
the designer-developer
continuum
the designer-developer
continuum
this is me!
constraintsare holding us back
aesthetics are
temporal
aesthetics are
fickle
UI conventions are
not a trend
be an ally to
a11y
design is about
communication
are you trying to say?what
don’t be a
sheep
Baa.
okay then,let’s get real.
isn’t the enemytexture
get creative with
typography
Playfair is not a businessy typeface
breakout of the box
add dynamism with
movement
beyondlook
“Literatureshould not disappear up its own…
Vonnegut (paraphrased)
experiment!go forth and
thank you!ask me questions @sarahsemark
triggersandsparks.com/talks/likeness
• Geocities screenshots: oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com
• internet archives: waybackmachine.org
• artist by my name is mud from the Noun Project
• sheep by gira Park from the Noun Project
• packaging design from lovelypackage.com
• lettering work by Tobias Saul, tobiassaul.de
• fashion editorials by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US
• film titles via artofthetitle.com
• interiors by Gypsy Yaya via apartmenttherapy.com
• museum photos by Ben Askins and mendhak via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Romeo & Juliet and Othello covers by Manuja Waldia for Penguin
• Bloomberg Business Week layouts by Braulio Amado