The New Language of Web Design

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 re-purposed, 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 Front /> Zurich 2013
2. Words have power:
3. Inspire
4. Enrage
5. Praise
6. Offend
7. Confuse
8. I ____ you.
9. Emotion
10. The white clouds soon turned black.
11. Black White
12. Black White
13. Black White
14. Attack
15. Heart Attack
16. Shit
17. Cunt
18. Gay
19. Language is powerful
20. Language is important
21. Language matters.
22. Borrowing from others
23. Siblings, closely related
24. Page
26. Page
27. Fold, Bleed
28. Distant or unrelated
29. Responsive Architecture
32. Ajax, Web
33. New adventures in terminology
34. Responsive Web Design
36. Old words, reborn
37. Scroll
41. Reaching maturity
42. Defining our vocabulary
43. Defining our language
44. Defining our future.
45. Dan Rubin Front /> Zurich 2013 Continue the discussion @danrubin