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Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts // CSS Dev Conf

Jen Simmons
October 13, 2014

Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts // CSS Dev Conf

In the early years of the web, there was a lot of variation and experimentation with where to put content on a web page. Then, it seems, we all settled into a handful of patterns and stayed there for over a decade. It wasn’t until the arrival of responsive design that new ideas for page layout started appearing. Now with new CSS properties for layout landing in browsers, we may be about to see a bigger renaissance in layout design patterns. How can we better use the space inside the glass rectangle? What layout innovations could help users better find and focus on what they want? Take a walk through where we’ve been, where we might be going, and how we can better design for the true medium at hand. This talk features practical examples of what's newly possible, along with access to a code repo for you to play with later.

There's a live demo for you at: http://labs.thewebahead.net/thelayoutsahead/
All the code is at: https://github.com/jensimmons/thelayoutsahead

Feedback on this presentation: https://storify.com/jensimmons/modern-layouts-at-css-dev-conf

Jen Simmons

October 13, 2014
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  1. Modern Layouts:
    Getting Out of Our Ruts
    @jensimmons
    Jen Simmons, The Web Ahead
    #modlayouts

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  13. The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new.
    We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real.
    —Jakob Nielsen, August 20, 2007, Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings

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  40. Graphic Design
    hasn’t always
    been like this.

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  47. vogue.com

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  59. Noise to Noise Ratio
    “Sure. There's definitely some
    excellent original work in there — in
    the middle of all those ads.”
    Merlin Mann

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  61. Let’s be more inventive
    with our layouts.
    Truly present the content.

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  62. MAGAZINE

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  63. 1.

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  68. CSS Shapes
    ( level 1 )

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  70. img {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 2em;
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
    }

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  71. img {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 2em;
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
    shape-outside: circle();
    }

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  72. labs.thewebahead.net

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  73. github.com/jensimmons/thelayoutsahead

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  74. follow @jensimmons to get these slides

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  75. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate
    Recommendation
    Proposed
    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Shapes level 1
    March 20, 2014
    w3.org/TR/css-shapes

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  77. shape-outside: circle();
    shape-outside: elipse();
    shape-outside: border-box;
    shape-outside: inset(0px round
    120px) border-box;
    shape-outside: url(http://
    example.com/image.jpg);
    shape-margin: 30px;

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  78. img {
    width: 50%;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 30px;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    shape-outside:
    ellipse(50% 50%);
    }

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  79. img {
    width: 50%;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 30px;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    border-radius: 100px;
    }

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  80. img {
    width: 50%;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 30px;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    border-radius: 100px;
    shape-outside:border-box;
    shape-margin: 30px;
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  81. img {
    width: 60%;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 30px;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    shape-outside:
    polygon(50% 0,
    100% 50%,
    50% 100%,
    0 50%);
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  95. main {
    transform:
    rotate(-10deg);
    }

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  96. h1 {
    transform:
    rotate(-90deg);
    }

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  97. h1 {
    float: left;
    padding-bottom: 200px;
    transform:
    rotate(-45deg);
    shape-outside:
    polygon(nonzero,
    -58px 80.55%, 75.95% -70px,
    89.55% -33.65%, -13.4%
    121.45%);
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  98. transform: rotate

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  99. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate
    Recommendation
    Proposed
    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Transforms Module level 1
    Nov 26, 2013, “refining”
    w3.org/TR/css-transforms

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  107. Grace Hopper
    Grace Murray Hopper (December 9,
    1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American
    computer scientist and United States
    Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the
    field, she was one of the first
    programmers of the Harvard Mark I
    computer, and invented the first
    compiler for a computer programming
    language...


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  108. img {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 2em;
    width: 50%;
    }
    div {
    padding: 2em;
    }

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    float: left;
    margin-right: 2em;
    // width: 50%;
    height: 100vh;
    }
    div {
    padding: 2em;
    }

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    float: left;
    margin-right: 2em;
    width: 50vw;
    height: 100vh;
    }
    h1 {
    font-size: 6vw;
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  115. Viewport Units

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  116. Anyplace you might use em, rem, %, px
    you can instead use:
    vh viewport height
    vw viewport width
    vmin smaller viewport number
    vmax larger viewport number

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    Candidate
    Recommendation
    Proposed
    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Values and Units
    Module level 3
    July 30, 2013
    w3.org/TR/css-values

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    Layout

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  127. article {
    max-width: 500px;
    margin: 0 auto;
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  128. article {
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    column-gap: 2em;
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    // column-count: 2;
    column-width: 200px;
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    width: 100%;
    }
    article {
    column-width: 200px;
    column-gap: 2em;
    column-rule:
    1px solid #444;
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    Candidate
    Recommendation
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    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Multicolumn Layout Module
    April 12, 2011
    w3.org/TR/css-multicol

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  147. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate
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    CSS Exclusions Module Level 1
    Oct 1, 2013
    dev.w3.org/csswg/css-exclusions

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  153. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate
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    CSS Flexible Box Layout
    Sept 25, 2014
    w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox

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  156. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate
    Recommendation
    Proposed
    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
    May 13, 2014
    w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout

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  158. and more…

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  159. back to magazines

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  162. Translate,
    Don’t Transfer.

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  166. (*Totally stolen from Karen McGrane’s incredible talk, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content. Search for it.)

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  169. one last story

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  173. Text 504-229-6828 with
    #modlayouts 5 Comment!
    Jen Simmons
    The Web Ahead
    thewebahead.net
    Follow @jensimmons
    to get these slides!

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