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Notes from the edge

Simon Collison
November 22, 2011

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.

Simon Collison

November 22, 2011
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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to

    do a job well for its own sake Richard Senne
  6. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers.

    They help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
  7. The tool doesn’t make the cra sman. Choosing the right

    tool for the right purpose is a technical and personal choice. Oliver Reichenstein
  8. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at

    things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Creative inquiry
  9. 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
  10. The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for

    visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Pa erns & interactions
  11. The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and

    have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design