The Designers are Coming!

As developers and engineers we've spent a lot of time improving our tools to make our lives easier. Somewhere along the way, those improvements have introduced a new threat to our livelihood... Designers! Learn about how we've got ourselves into this place, why we have to lift our game, and why that can only be a good thing for everyone.

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4. Intrinsic vs Extrinsic
5. Developers have built some amazing things
6. ... and we’ve (mostly) fixed deployment
7. $ cap deploy
9. $ git push heroku master
10. version control == deployment
13. Gateway drugs to design
14. Eric Ries
15. Typography & Typesetting
16. When you have really long lines of text it becomes difficult for the user to read, in part because it becomes more difficult to track your eye from the end of one line to the start of the next. The length of the line is called the measure, research suggests that the ideal range is somewhere between 45 - 75 characters. Whatever length you decide on, just be aware that the longer your lines the more space, or leading, you need between them to make it easier for the user to actually read all that awesome stuff you wrote.
17. See what I mean? This copy is the exact same size as that on the previous slide, so this isn’t entirely* a trick on your eyes. But the extra space between the lines makes it way easier for you to read this. In fact, you’ve probably read it in half the time and effort to what you did previous slide, so you can get back to listening to what I’m saying. *ok, maybe one trick in my favor
19. Mark Boulton
20. btw, do not underline words
21. Edward Tufte
22. $0 $225,000.00 $450,000.00 $675,000.00 $900,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sprockets Widgets
23. $0 $225,000.00 $450,000.00 $675,000.00 $900,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sprockets Widgets
24. $0 $225,000.00 $450,000.00 $675,000.00 $900,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sprockets Widgets
25. $0 $225,000.00 $450,000.00 $675,000.00 $900,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sprockets Widgets
26. $0 $125,000.00 $250,000.00 $375,000.00 $500,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Sprockets Widgets
27. -$80,000.00 -$60,000.00 -$40,000.00 -$20,000.00 $0 $20,000.00 $40,000.00 $60,000.00 $80,000.00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
29. Dieter Rams
30. Design can be a science
31. Our values are shared
32. We are all designers
33. “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” Aristotle
34. Glenn @glenngillen glenn@heroku.com
35. We’re hiring!
36. fin.