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binx
August 08, 2013
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August 08, 2013
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Transcript
The Road to Code Girls Who Code, July 2013
who I am & how I got here
Stamen Design
data visual understandable beautiful
Museum of Modern Art
Facebook Stories
MTV Video Music Awards
Meshu
But life wasn’t always this glamorous :(
Math vs. Programming #include<iostream> using std::cout; using std::cin; using std::endl;
int main() { int num=0,sum=0,maxvalue=0; cout <<"Please enter a positive number: "; cin >> maxvalue; for(num=1;num<=maxvalue;num++) sum=sum+num; cout<<"The sum is ...."<<sum; return 0; } x(x+1) 2
Data Visualization
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My First Portfolio
> !stamen > !javascript > !falling in love with !
! web programming
> !stamen > !javascript > !falling in love with !
! web programming
> !stamen > !javascript > !falling in love with !
! web programming
1) Accessibility 2) User interactivity 3) The internet is your
! ! data source
1) Accessibility 2) User interaction 3) The internet is your
! ! data source
1) Accessibility 2) User interaction 3) The internet is your
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a message from the Department of Uncomfortable Truths:
web programming is complicated
Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation
Meshu
Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation
Considerations - How should the site feel? - What information
do you want to convey? - How will people move through your site? Methods - Sketching out user scenarios - Sketching out different page views
Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation
SQL Database Django (Python) HTML CSS Javascript Page Render d3.js
jQuery Polymaps
Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation
Considerations - Page layout - Colors and type treatment -
Hierarchy of information Methods - Sketchbook - Illustrator/Photoshop - HTML/CSS
Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation
Considerations - Transitions between different data states - Transitions between
different page views - Confirming user actions Methods - CSS - Javascript
whew!
Thanks!
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