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Jen Myers
January 10, 2013
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Straight-Up Design
Simple ways devs can make apps look and work better.
Jen Myers
January 10, 2013
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Transcript
Straight-Up D E S I G N simple ways for
devs to make apps look and work better
Hi. I’m Jen. I’m a designer.*
Design Myths 1 Design is decoration. Design is subjective. Design
is separate from development. 2 3
Simple ways to do design? Do tell!
There are no simple ways to do design.
But there are some places to start.
Inspiration
STEAL.
SEARCH AND BOOKMARK.
Layout
CREATE A FLOW.
negative space
None
None
USE GRIDS.
WIREFRAME.
WIREFRAME.
USE PATTERNS.
Details
CHOOSE FONTS.
CHOOSE FONTS.
CHOOSE COLORS.
CHOOSE ICONS.
frameworks & helpers
Twitter Bootstrap? Um ... do you have to?
JEN MYERS @antiheroine jenmyers.net/speaking
RESOURCES http://www.austinkleon.com/steal/ http://pinboard.in/u:jenmyers/t:inspiration/ http://pinterest.com/deliberatepixel/web-app-design/ http://dribbble.com http://inspectelement.com/articles/the-principles-of-good-web-design-part-1-layout/ http://balsamiq.com http://ui-patterns.com/ http://www.google.com/webfonts http://typekit.com
http://youtu.be/BMP5cuAYG_Q http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall02/V22.0380-001/color_theory.htm http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/