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A New Toolbox: Artifact Conference, Austin 2013

A New Toolbox: Artifact Conference, Austin 2013

Defining Happy Cog's evolving process as it addresses the shifting landscape of a multi-device world.

Kevin Sharon

May 14, 2013
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  1. A NEW TOOLBOX S E C R E T S

    F R O M H A P P Y C O G T E X A S S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y / S A N M A R C O S , T X K E V I N S H A R O N S O P H I E S H E P H E R D
  2. Education: • A List Apart • A Book Apart •

    An Event Apart • Girl Develop It • Ladies in Tech
  3. Happy Cog: • We share with the Community. • Educate

    our clients. • Mentor young designers.
  4. Web Standards: “By releasing browsers which do not uniformly support

    those standards, browser makers are injuring Web developers, businesses and users alike. —http://archive.webstandards.org/mission.html
  5. Fluid Grids: “But given all that we’ve achieved over the

    past few years—moving past tables, evangelizing standards… I do wish we’d bend some of that ingenuity to break out of our reliance on “minimum screen resolution.” —http://alistapart.com/article/fluidgrids
  6. Best Practices • Collaboration. • Give ideas time to develop.

    • Learn to separate evolution from broken process.
  7. UX

  8. Content Strategy: “…content strategy is to copywriting as information architecture

    is to design.” —Rachel Lovinger, interesting person
  9. Graphic Design: • Textures, fonts, colors. • Content. • Solving

    problems on the front end and the back end.
  10. 11 6 Home Case Study Blog Post About Team Services

    Jobs Job Listings Blog Landing Blog Archive Work Listing App Listing App Case Study App Variation 404 Contact “How We Work”
  11. Designer finds bug ➔ Files bug in Sifter ➔ Developer

    has question ➔ developer fixes bug ➔ assign back to designer ➔ designer looks at page to confirm ➔ designer closes ticket Designer Finds Bug ➔ Designer Fixes Bug Q.A.
  12. Remaining 11 pages x 4hrs = 44hrs + Tablet Design,

    17 pages x 4hrs = 68hrs + Mobile Design, 17 pages x 4hrs = 68hrs 180 Hours (4.5 weeks) Timeline