What Will The Web Look Like in Two Years

Presented at Future of Web Design, London, May 2010

Will we meet user expectations in the near future? How will we be using and synthesizing existing technologies? What role will next-generation platforms play? How might we take augmented environments online? What role will traditional design theory and best practice play in all of this? Importantly, will we break the rectangle? Simon travelled to 2012 and back in order to find out.

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1. WHAT WILL WEB DESIGN LOOK LIKE IN TWO YEARS? Simon Collison Future of Web Design, May 2010 Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time?
2. I DON’T KNOW Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time?
4. TEN FOR THE FUTURE Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time?
5. THE MACHINE Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 1
8. http://fivesimplesteps.co.uk/
9. http://sushiandrobots.com/
10. http://shauninman.com/
11. DEVICES, CONTENT & PROCESS Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 2
12. Sports Illustrated for iPad
13. http://48hrmag.com/
14. HTML & CSS Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 3
15. The date that really matters for HTML5 is 2012. That’s when the specification is due to become a “candidate recommendation.” That’s standards-speak for “done and dusted.” JEREMY KEITH http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/
18. http://www.romancortes.com/blog/pure-css-coke-can/
19. http://neography.com/experiment/circles/solarsystem/
20. TYPOGRAPHY Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 5
23. http://code.garron.us/css/BTTF_logo//
24. http://secondandpark.com/
25. http://gregorywood.co.uk/
26. http://trentwalton.com/
27. http://typekit.com/
28. http://seedconference.com/
30. SYSTEMS & EDITORIAL DESIGN Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 6
31. We don’t design web pages. We design systems. ANDY CLARKE
33. http://trentwalton.com/ http://gregorywood.co.uk/
34. http://thebolditalic.com/ http://jasonsantamaria.com/
35. RESPONDING TO OUR WORLD Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 7
36. Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 7 The models people have of themselves, others, the environment, and the things with which they interact. MENTAL MODELS
37. Environment Experience Others Me Instruction Interaction
38. DESIGN PATTERNS Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 8
39. I could list projects in every category from logos, to annual reports, to magazine covers, to packaging, to typefaces, to opening titles that could be considered landmark projects… But when it comes to web sites, I can’t think of a single www that could be comparable. ARMIN VIT Landmark websites, where art thou? Speak Up, April 2009.
45. BALANCE COMPOSITION SYMMETRY MOVEMENT RHYTHM REPETITION PATTERNS
52. REDUCTION & RESTRAINT Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 9
53. Constructing immediate meaning through economy of use. RESTRAINT & REDUCTION
55. http://gregorywood.co.uk/
56. A NEW AGE OF EXPERIMENTATION Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time? 10
57. http://www.yugop.com/
58. http://www.yugop.com/
59. http://mnatwork.com/
60. http://wallswaps.com/
61. http://wallswaps.com/
62. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-ball/
63. http://balldroppings.com/js/
64. http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/
65. I COULD BE WRONG
66. THANKS Simon Collison web: colly.com twitter: @simoncollison Future of Web Design What will web design look like in two years time?