Dan Rubin: The New Language of Web Design

Dan Rubin, New Adventures, January 2011

Our industry has aged into double digits, but much of the language we use to describe what we do and how things work is borrowed or repurposed, sometimes without issue, but often leading to confusion. Having a distinct set of terminology is an important sign of maturity for a line of work, those words and phrases to lead the next generation of practitioners — and it's high time we set about creating it.

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1. The New Language of Web Design Dan Rubin New Adventures 2011
3. Words have power:
4. Inspire
5. Enrage
6. Praise
7. Offend
8. Confuse
9. I ____ you.
10. Emotion
11. The white clouds soon turned black.
12. Black White
13. Black White
14. Black White
15. Attack
16. Heart Attack
17. Shit
18. Cunt
19. Gay
20. Language is powerful
21. Language is important
22. Language matters.
23. Borrowing from others
24. Siblings, closely related
25. Page
27. Page
28. Fold, Bleed
29. Distant or unrelated
30. Responsive Architecture
33. Ajax, Web
34. New adventures in terminology
35. Responsive Web Design
41. Old words, reborn
42. Scroll
46. Reaching maturity
47. Defining our vocabulary
48. Defining our language
49. Defining our future.
50. Dan Rubin New Adventures 2011 Continue the discussion @danrubin