Notes from the edge

Beyond Tellerrand, Düsseldorf, 22nd November 2011

Craftsmanship and communication are at the heart of everything we do on the web. With our ability to understand and overcome challenges, we should deliver engaging experiences without compromising our integrity or failing the end user. Still, we're often naive and we make the same mistakes over and over. We get hung up on our tools and confuse our goals. It's time to think and talk smarter, get our priorities straight, and learn from our mistakes.

Cover is a photo I took on top of Oslo opera house.

Transcript

1. NOTES FROM THE EDGE SIMON COLLISON
5. THE DOING 1
6. What do you think you’ll be doing in five years? Interview question
8. ARE YOU IN YOUR WORK?
9. It took me until my 40s to realize: There’s no destination. There’s no ge ing anywhere. There’s just the going. Pa on Oswalt
10. Not necessarily slowing down, but rather just opting out of speed. Frank Chimero
11. SERENDIPITY
12. STRENGTHS & VALUES 2
13. 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
14. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. Thomas Edison
15. OUR STRENGTHS FIND US
16. designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%
17. designer developer strategist writer educator manager web designer 100%
18. LEARNING 3
19. I’m self-actualised, without the stamp of approval from any guild, curriculum authority, or academic institution. I’m web taught. Colleague taught. Empirically taught. Jon Tan
20. The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything Linda Holmes
21. ORBITAL LEARNING
22. FOCUS
23. CRAFT 4
25. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake Richard Senne
27. Discovery through doing: honing skills over a significant period of time, with substantial commitment. Our cra
28. TOOLS 5
29. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers. They help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
31. The tool doesn’t make the cra sman. Choosing the right tool for the right purpose is a technical and personal choice. Oliver Reichenstein
32. INQUIRY 6
33. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Creative inquiry
35. 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
38. A puzzle is be er than an answer Milton Glaser
40. 7 OUR UNIQUE WEB
41. The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Pa erns & interactions
46. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/
47. http://wallswaps.com/
49. SYSTEMS 8
50. We don’t design web pages. We design systems. Systems
55. http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/
56. VOCABULARY 9
57. The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design
60. OUR MOTIVATION 10
63. Find problems and design responses. Not answers, not solutions. Responses. The designer
65. THANKS @colly