Future Friendly Style Guides

How style guides can help in a responsive design workflow.

Find out more here: http://blog.lukebrooker.com/future-friendly-style-guides

Pattern Response - Github
https://github.com/lukebrooker/pattern-response

Slides from my talk at What Do You Know - Brisbane: http://whatdoyouknow.webdirections.org/brisbane

Transcript

1. future friendly STYLE GUIDES @lukebroker
2. Hold up RESPONSIVE DESIGN!
3. My work ow doesn’t WORK or FLOW
4. How is it REALLY going to look?
5. and how do we get there QUICKLY?
6. HOW I GET THERE
7. HOW I GET THERE • Wireframes - sketched only, multiple width.
8. HOW I GET THERE • Wireframes - sketched only, multiple width. • Initial prototyping - very top level, mostly for a “live” feel of the layout from the wireframes, but able to be seen on many devices.
9. HOW I GET THERE • Wireframes - sketched only, multiple width. • Initial prototyping - very top level, mostly for a “live” feel of the layout from the wireframes, but able to be seen on many devices. • Style tiles - design in Photoshop without “designing mockups” in Photoshop.
10. and... STYLE GUIDES
11. WHY a style guide?
12. “Websites are systems rather than pages and as soon as we stop perceiving them as that, the better.” ANNA DEBENHAM
13. ELEMENTS, COMPONENTS & PATTERNS
14. Component Example NAVIGATION MENUS
15. Component Example NAVIGATION MENUS
16. Component Example NAVIGATION MENUS
17. PATTERN LIBRARIES ey’re popping up everywhere
18. PEARS pea.rs
19. PATTERN PRIMER github.com/adactio/Pattern-Primer
20. Back to STYLE GUIDES Front-end Style Guides 24ways.org/2011/front-end-style-guides Knyle Style Sheets warpspire.com/posts/kss
21. KNYLE STYLE SHEETS
22. AN IDEA
23. PATTERN RESPONSE github.com/lukebrooker/pattern-response
24. More than a STYLE GUIDE
25. More than a STYLE GUIDE • Team Members - Document all components of a project and how to implement them.
26. More than a STYLE GUIDE • Team Members - Document all components of a project and how to implement them. • Yourself - Keep as a starter style guide and another for a pattern library.
27. More than a STYLE GUIDE • Team Members - Document all components of a project and how to implement them. • Yourself - Keep as a starter style guide and another for a pattern library. • Clients - Style guide, WYSIWYG Guide.
28. USING IT IN A RESPONSIVE WORKFLOW
29. • From wireframes - List out all components needed.
30. • From wireframes - List out all components needed. • In the style guide - Add the structure (HTML) of each component.
31. • From wireframes - List out all components needed. • In the style guide - Add the structure (HTML) of each component. • Design/style - Using the style guide or referencing your projects CSS as you build it.
32. • From wireframes - List out all components needed. • In the style guide - Add the structure (HTML) of each component. • Design/style - Using the style guide or referencing your projects CSS as you build it. • Work together - Designers and developers can work together and discuss how things will work at different sizes.
33. FOR EACH COMPONENT
34. FOR EACH COMPONENT • Widths - how this component will react. How wide should it get before it’s layout changes.
35. FOR EACH COMPONENT • Widths - how this component will react. How wide should it get before it’s layout changes. • Hierarchy - where this component will be used in the site, and how it react to others.
36. FOR EACH COMPONENT • Widths - how this component will react. How wide should it get before it’s layout changes. • Hierarchy - where this component will be used in the site, and how it react to others. • Density - how the content changes as the component adapts to it’s surroundings. (will some things be hidden)
37. FOR EACH COMPONENT • Widths - how this component will react. How wide should it get before it’s layout changes. • Hierarchy - where this component will be used in the site, and how it react to others. • Density - how the content changes as the component adapts to it’s surroundings. (will some things be hidden) • Interaction - will the way it is interacted with change as it changes.
38. AN EXAMPLE
39. AN EXAMPLE
40. AN EXAMPLE
41. AND THAT IS WHAT I KNOW AN IDEA I HAD. ank you. @lukebroker