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This is for Everyone (Speak the Web)

This is for Everyone (Speak the Web)

Graphic designers have long honed their craft to meet the specific constraints of television. As web designers begin to understand the true nature of our own medium, isn’t about time we did the same?

Paul Robert Lloyd

July 16, 2013
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  1. This is for everyone Paul Robert Lloyd Speak the Web

    2013 16 July – Sheffield, England
  2. “ The web’s primary design principle is universality... it should

    be accessible from any kind of hardware that can connect to the Internet: stationary or mobile, small screen or large. scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality — Tim Berners-Lee
  3. 5 July 2012 @marcoarment If you’re a web designer, you

    really, really need to get a Retina MacBook Pro so you can see how bad your site looks on it and fix it. twitter.com/marcoarment/status/220968507117015040
  4. 6 July 2012 @anna_debenham If you’re a web designer, you

    really, really need to get a cheap Dell monitor so you can see how bad your site looks on it and fix it. twitter.com/anna_debenham/status/221277339517067265
  5. “ It is the nature of the web to be

    flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility. alistapart.com/articles/dao A Dao of Web Design — John Allsopp
  6. Total Transfer Size and Total Requests: Top 1000 Sites httparchive.org/trends.php

    700 800 900 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,300 2012 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 2013 88 90 91 97 97 98 98 98 98 100 100 99 100 Total Requests Total Transfer Size (kB)
  7. What Users Want From Mobile e-commercefacts.com/research/2011/07/what-usrs-want-from-mobil/19986_WhatMobileUsersWant_Wp.pdf > 5s 12% 5s

    18% 4s 11% 3s 24% 2s 21% < 1s 14% 3 seconds or less: 59% What are your expectations for how quickly a website should load on your mobile phone?
  8. “ It’s time for us to treat performance as an

    essential design feature, not just as a technical best practice. bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/performance-as-design/ Performance As Design — Brad Frost
  9. Average Bytes per Page by Content Type: Top 1000 Sites

    (July 2013) httparchive.org/interesting.php CSS 37 kB HTML 47 kB Other 184 kB Flash 79 kB Scripts 209 kB Images 668 kB Total 1246 kB
  10. Interface Informative Decorative Vector (SVG) Icon font Bitmap (JPG, PNG)

    Bitmap (JPG, PNG) CSS image replacement <img src="" alt=""/> <div data-imgsrc=""/> CSS background Remove? Image Types
  11. Interface Informative Decorative Vector (SVG) Icon font Bitmap (JPG, PNG)

    Bitmap (JPG, PNG) CSS image replacement <img src="" alt=""/> <div data-imgsrc=""/> CSS background Remove? Image Types
  12. Interface Informative Decorative Vector (SVG) Icon font Bitmap (JPG, PNG)

    Bitmap (JPG, PNG) CSS image replacement <img src="" alt=""/> <div data-imgsrc=""/> CSS background Remove? Image Types
  13. Informative Decorative UK unemployment total falls to 2.5m UK unemployment

    fell in the three months to December, while the number in work also jumped to a new record, official figures show. The jobless total fell by 14,000 between October and December to 2.5 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The number in work rose by 154,000 to 29.7 million. More than 580,000 more people are employed than a year ago. The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in January fell by 12,500 to 1.54 million. The Jobcentre Plus brand Our brand encompasses the nature of our relationship with customers. It is expressed throughout our communications, the attitude of our staff, and is symbolised by our identity. Within the offices, the expression of the brand identity is delivered through branded signs, graphic communications, and a range of component elements that are synonymous with Jobcentre Plus. These are set against a backdrop of colours, finishes and materials of the brand environment. The consistent
  14. Facebook U-turn after charities criticise decapitation videos Facebook has said

    it will delete videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site. "We will remove instances of these videos that are reported to us while we evaluate our policy and approach to this type of content," it said. The news came less than two hours after the BBC revealed a member of Facebook's own safety advisory board had criticised its stance. The social network had previously refused to ban the Facebook U-turn after charities criticise decapitation videos Facebook has said it will delete videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site. "We will remove instances of these videos that are reported to us while we evaluate our policy and approach to this type of content," it said. The news came less than two hours after the BBC revealed a member of Facebook's own safety advisory board had criticised its stance. The social network had previously refused to ban the ‘HiDPI’ image Standard resolution image Decorative 46kb 8kb Decorative
  15. <picture width="480" height="360"> <source media="(min-width:45em)" src="image-large.jpg"/> <source media="(min-width:18em)" src="image-med.jpg"/> <source

    src="image-small.jpg"/> <img src="image-small.jpg" alt=""/> <p>Alternative textual description of image.</p> </picture> The picture element: An HTML extension for adaptive images picture.responsiveimages.org
  16. <img src="image-small.jpg" alt="" delay/> <img src="image-large.jpg" alt=""/> Feature to make

    <img> elements not load their images until needed w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17842 HTML Markup DOMContentLoaded
  17. 28 April 2013 @paulrobertlloyd Consider new attributes over new elements

    over new markup languages. twitter.com/paulrobertlloyd/status/328487022429888512
  18. thatemil.com/blog/2013/05/22/drowning/ HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sublime Text, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rails,

    Django, bash, Grunt, Git, Photoshop, Fabric, XPath, GPU, CPU, URLs, pen and paper, BDD, Sharpies, Textmate, IE, Composer, jank, Ice Cream Sandwich, Node, XP, Marionette, Cake, npm, Transmit, e-mail, flexbox, Firefox, a11y, Yeoman, Brunch, zsh, MVC, angular, Ghostlab, Illustrator, Backbone, dotfiles, Express, A/B testing, Chrome, stand-ups, semver, bizdev, Fireworks, .gitkeep, TDD, Silex, HTTP, rebase, jQuery, Jekyll, Travis, Charles, JSON, Hammer, i10n, Bower, Capybara, Capistrano, Watir, Buster, Mocha, Puppet, Chef, Virtualbox, CoffeeScript, Firefox, Adobe Edge, Jellybean, Webdriver, LightTable, Cucumber, Batman, ARIA, Web Components, Flight, AdWords, SPDY, Agile, shadow DOM, uglify, svn, clojure, RWD, blink and you will have missed something. Drowning
  19. thatemil.com/blog/2013/05/22/drowning/ HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sublime Text, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rails,

    Django, bash, Grunt, Git, Photoshop, Fabric, XPath, GPU, CPU, URLs, pen and paper, BDD, Sharpies, Textmate, IE, Composer, jank, Ice Cream Sandwich, Node, XP, Marionette, Cake, npm, Transmit, e-mail, flexbox, Firefox, a11y, Yeoman, Brunch, zsh, MVC, angular, Ghostlab, Illustrator, Backbone, dotfiles, Express, A/B testing, Chrome, stand-ups, semver, bizdev, Fireworks, .gitkeep, TDD, Silex, HTTP, rebase, jQuery, Jekyll, Travis, Charles, JSON, Hammer, i10n, Bower, Capybara, Capistrano, Watir, Buster, Mocha, Puppet, Chef, Virtualbox, CoffeeScript, Firefox, Adobe Edge, Jellybean, Webdriver, LightTable, Cucumber, Batman, ARIA, Web Components, Flight, AdWords, SPDY, Agile, shadow DOM, uglify, svn, clojure, RWD, blink and you will have missed progressive enhancement. Drowning