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Straight-Up Design

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January 10, 2013
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Straight-Up Design

Simple ways devs can make apps look and work better.

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January 10, 2013
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Transcript

  1. Straight-Up D E S I G N simple ways for

    devs to make apps look and work better

  2. Hi. I’m Jen. I’m a designer.*

  3. Design Myths 1 Design is decoration. Design is subjective. Design

    is separate from development. 2 3

  4. Simple ways to do design? Do tell!

  5. There are no simple ways to do design.

  6. But there are some places to start.

  7. Inspiration

  8. STEAL.

  9. SEARCH AND BOOKMARK.

  10. Layout

  11. CREATE A FLOW.

  12. negative space

  13. None
  14. None

  15. USE GRIDS.

  16. WIREFRAME.

  17. WIREFRAME.

  18. USE PATTERNS.

  19. Details

  20. CHOOSE FONTS.

  21. CHOOSE FONTS.

  22. CHOOSE COLORS.

  23. CHOOSE ICONS.

  24. frameworks & helpers

  25. Twitter Bootstrap? Um ... do you have to?

  26. JEN MYERS @antiheroine jenmyers.net/speaking

  27. RESOURCES http://www.austinkleon.com/steal/ http://pinboard.in/u:jenmyers/t:inspiration/ http://pinterest.com/deliberatepixel/web-app-design/ http://dribbble.com http://inspectelement.com/articles/the-principles-of-good-web-design-part-1-layout/ http://balsamiq.com http://ui-patterns.com/ http://www.google.com/webfonts http://typekit.com

    http://youtu.be/BMP5cuAYG_Q http://www.colourlovers.com/ http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall02/V22.0380-001/color_theory.htm http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/