Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Sign up for free
Menu
Search
Features
All features
Private URLs
Password Protection
Custom URLS
Scheduled publishing
Remove Branding
Restrict embedding
Deck Collections
Notes
Features
All features
Private URLs
Password Protection
Custom URLS
Scheduled publishing
Remove Branding
Restrict embedding
Deck Collections
Notes
Explore
Featured decks
Featured speakers
Programming
Technology
Storyboards
Explore
Featured decks
Featured speakers
Programming
Technology
Storyboards
Pricing
Search
Sign in
Sign up for free
Notes From The Edge
Search
Simon Collison
November 25, 2011
Design
800
5
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Notes From The Edge
Edge Of The Web, Perth, Australia, July 2011
Simon Collison
November 25, 2011
More Decks by Simon Collison
See All by Simon Collison
The Internet of Natural Things
colly
5
500
The Designer’s Guide to Being Essential
colly
2
840
Old Dog, New Tricks
colly
6
1.4k
Crafting the Progressive Web
colly
4
840
Designing the designer
colly
16
1k
Creative Mornings NYC
colly
6
3.9k
Embracing constraint
colly
3
1k
A Philosophy of Restraint
colly
203
17k
A more meaningful web
colly
19
1.2k
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
ボタンUIの冪等性の話をしたらVimmerに刺さっちゃった
ottatto
3
1.9k
富山デザイン勉強会_生成AIを使ったデザイン制作2026最新版.pdf
keita_yoshikawa
0
200
Look Dev Meetup #50
baku89
1
530
Figmaを使わなくなった私が、最近していること
mela_dayo
0
130
PLATEAUで白い街を作る
aikautau
0
230
東京都市大学 都市生活学部×一般社団法人オープン企画イベント 「誰もがデザイナーである」とはどういうことか? 【エツィオ・マンズィーニ氏 特別来日・基調講演】
a2k
1
150
ポートフォリオ_あやの
ngyenmazt1412
0
2k
言幹と言葉(Stems & Leaves)
kakukoki
0
250
デザインハーネス 〜AIが生成する"デザイン"の妥当性を、誰がどう担保するのか〜 / PdEConf2026 Design Harness
kgsi
14
23k
インターンから2年新卒フロントエンドエンジニアから見たサイボウズのアクセシビリティ
taku10101
0
190
「惜しいデザイン」 を生み出さないための AIレビューループ
0b1tk
3
4.7k
Findy - デザインチーム紹介 / Findy Design Team Culture Deck
findyinc
14
150k
Featured
See All Featured
Put a Button on it: Removing Barriers to Going Fast.
kastner
60
4.6k
Statistics for Hackers
jakevdp
799
230k
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
380
WCS-LA-2024
lcolladotor
0
920
Connecting the Dots Between Site Speed, User Experience & Your Business [WebExpo 2025]
tammyeverts
11
1.1k
KATA
mclloyd
PRO
35
16k
Context Engineering - Making Every Token Count
addyosmani
9
1.2k
How People are Using Generative and Agentic AI to Supercharge Their Products, Projects, Services and Value Streams Today
helenjbeal
2
370
Building a Modern Day E-commerce SEO Strategy
aleyda
45
9.3k
The #1 spot is gone: here's how to win anyway
tamaranovitovic
4
1.2k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
306
120k
HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering @ RubyCon 2026, Rimini, Italy
marcoroth
5
850
Transcript
Notes From The Edge Simon Collison Edge of the Web,
July 2011 @colly colly.com
edge the
Inspiration
Donovan Claus Sharapova
Part one The individual
None
Strengths & values
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
Learning
The sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss
almost everything. Linda Holmes
None
None
Craftsmanship
Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to
do a job well for its own sake. Cra smanship
None
Our tools
Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers,
they help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
None
None
Inquiry
Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at
things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Inquiry
None
Think smarter
Individual lines of inquiry are what will, more than anything
else, drive us to develop greater maturity of the discipline of web design. Think smarter
Part two The wider web
Visual grammar
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
None
Mistakes
Those who never made a mistake never made anything. Proverb
None
Patterns & interactions
The screen brings with it different kinds of challenges for
visual design, some of which occur exclusively in interactive media. Jason Santa Maria
The frame
The frame of reference marks the outer limits of a
design and defines an area within which the created elements and le -over blank space, if any, all work together. The frame
None
None
None
None
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/
http://wallswaps.com/
http://wallswaps.com/
Systems
We don’t design web pages. We design systems. Systems
None
http://gregorywood.co.uk/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/
Vocabulary
It's my belief that our community has a shared responsibility
to expand this visual language as it applies to the ebb and flow of the web, and in turn evolve our wri en and verbal vocabulary. Vocabulary
Responsive Web Design
The terms responsive and adaptive are distinct yet related, and
have evolved naturally from outdated web-based layout terminology Responsive web design
None
None
What next?
None
We are the web. We are the makers, the explorers,
the end users. What next?
Finally
None
The in the ordinary extraordinary
Thank you Simon Collison @colly h p://colly.com