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A Dialect of Our Own Design

Simon Collison
September 28, 2011

A Dialect of Our Own Design

Presented at Interlink, Vancouver, June 2011

A visual language informs all design, from architecture to print. Fluency in the same language drawn on by Bauhaus, mid-century Swiss, or postmodern design is essential for brilliant web design. In this practical talk, ground uniquely web-based interactions—from complex CSS3 animations and rotations to JavaScript behaviors—using that time-tested visual primer. Take a more considered approach to choices, evoke the desired emotive responses, learn how to better articulate your design decisions. Extend graphic design’s grammar into a visual dialect of web design that guides us to smarter, beautifully balanced juxtapositions of elements in our new, multidimensional web experiences.

Simon Collison

September 28, 2011
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  1. The models people have of themselves, others, the environment, and

    the things with which they interact. MENTAL MODELS
  2. An affordance is a quality of an object, or an

    environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. AFFORDANCE
  3. The study of signs offering an explanation of how people

    extract meaning from words, sounds and images. SEMIOTICS
  4. Colour can bring designs to life, inform hierarchies, create bonds

    between elements, add pace or emotion. COLOUR
  5. FURTHER READING Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg The Design of

    Everyday Things by Don Norman Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud Principles of Form and Design by Wucius Wong Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton Mental Models by Indi Young Communicating Design by Dan Brown