Notes From The Edge

Edge Of The Web, Perth, Australia, July 2011

1. Notes From The Edge Simon Collison Edge of the Web, July 2011 @colly colly.com
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3. Inspiration
4. Donovan Claus Sharapova
5. Part one The individual
7. Strengths & values
8. 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
9. Learning
10. The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything. Linda Holmes
13. Craftsmanship
14. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Cra smanship
16. Our tools
17. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers, they help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
20. Inquiry
21. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Inquiry
23. Think smarter
24. 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
25. Part two The wider web
26. Visual grammar
27. 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
29. Mistakes
30. Those who never made a mistake never made anything. Proverb
32. Patterns & interactions
33. The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Jason Santa Maria
34. The frame
35. 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
40. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/
41. http://wallswaps.com/
42. http://wallswaps.com/
43. Systems
44. We don’t design web pages. We design systems. Systems
46. http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/
47. Vocabulary
48. 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
49. Responsive Web Design
50. The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design
53. What next?
55. We are the web. We are the makers, the explorers, the end users. What next?
56. Finally
58. The in the ordinary extraordinary
59. Thank you Simon Collison @colly h p://colly.com