Notes from the Edge
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1) The document discusses strengths, values, craftsmanship, inquiry, and thinking smarter at an individual level to create work of substance or greatness. 2) It explores visual grammar, mistakes, patterns and interactions, frames, systems, and vocabulary at a wider web level. 3) The document concludes by discussing responsive web design and poses the question "What next?" as makers and explorers of the web.
Notes from the Edge
- 1. Notes From The Edge Simon Collison Edge of the Web, July 2011 @colly colly.com
- 2. the edge
- 3. Inspiration
- 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
- 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
- 43. Systems
- 44. We don’t design web pages. We design systems. Systems
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- 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
- 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 extraordinary in the ordinary
- 59. Thank you Simon Collison @colly h p://colly.com