This talk and its overarching topic – what essentially is true "web design"? – is very dear to me.
Archiv für "Webdesign"
WebrockerHints and Suggestions: The Design of Web Design - Miriam Suzanne @ beyond tellerrand Berlin 2024
The web is fundamentally different from other platforms, built around a radical political vision for resilience, adaptability, and user control. With that vision under threat, the Cascade takes on an almost absurd task – styling unknown content, with unknown collaborators, on an infinite and unknowable canvas, across browsers, languages, writing modes, and device interfaces. This…
Design in the Browser!
I nearly missed this article by Matthias Ott - The New CSS: Hear hear! Using graphic design / layout tools to 'design' user interfaces is a misconception. Those tools are wonderful to create artifacts to get into the discussion how a website may 'look', and to a lesser extend how it 'behaves'. But often those…
When you're invisible …
… it's eeeaasyyy… 🎶 This is a song by Danko Jones and besides being a very good rock song, it has nothing to do with the topic of this post*, but I recommend that you listen to it while you are reading this. :-) *Or has it? Over the last two days I again attended…
The Dangers of Being a Web Developer - Jens Oliver Meiert @ Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018
view directly on vimeo I've been following Jens' output for over a decade now. Not regulary, but every now and then some of his smart observations and thoughts surface in my information stream. So I was excited to see his name in the speakers list, and his talk about the pros and cons of being…
The Illusion of Control in Web Design - Aaron Gustafson
Recognizing all of the ways our carefully-crafted experiences can be rendered unusable can be more than a little disheartening. No one likes to spend their time thinking about failure. So don’t. Don’t focus on all of the bad things you can’t control. Focus on what you can control. Start simply. Code defensively. User-test the heck…
Blue Beanie Day
Once again it is time to show some love for Web Standards. Ten years ago, the "Blue Beanie Day" was invented, and if you are wondering how on earth wearing a blue knitted hat helps the Web Standard movement, well, Is this silly or serious? Seems to me, it’s a bit of both. If enough…
Don’t tell me what my browser can’t do! – Christian Heilmann
This article by Christian Heilmann (of Mozilla and Microsoft fame) about the misconception that expecting certain features and capabilities in browsers and simply stating "please upgrade/turn on/go away" if these "requirements" are not met by the user's set up is web development is very much worth your time if you create things for the web.…
Was Webseiten mit Autos gemeinsam haben
Ein paar Gedanken, die mir gekommen sind, als ich die Reifen am Kleinwagen der besten aller Frauen wechselte, die ihrem Wagen gegenüber eine ähnliche Haltung hat, wie viele meiner Kunden gegenüber ihren Webseiten: Ich will mich eigentlich nicht damit beschäftigen. Wichtig ist halt, dass er fährt. Als ich die Räder hinten runter hatte, kam ich…
The Power Of Simplicity - Jeremy Keith @ BorderNone Conference, Nuremberg
Hier ist der Abschlussvortrag der Border:None Konferenz in Nürnberg, gehalten von Jeremy Keith, den ich a) sehr mag und der b) sehr viele Dinge rund um das Web et al so sieht wie ich. (Eher umgekehrt natürlich, aber das hat jetzt nicht in den Satzbau reingepasst). Jeremy Keith – The Power Of Simplicity – border:none…