Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts (40 mins)

Presented at Push Conference in Munich, Future of Web Design NYC, Future of Web Design San Francisco, HOW Interactive in Boston, and Ampersand in Brighton UK.

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1. MODERN LAYOUTS
   Getting Out of Our Ruts
   THE WEB AHEAD
   thewebahead.net
   JEN SIMMONS
   @jensimmons
   Fall 2015
   

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15. 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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24. drawing by Dave Ellis
    novolume.co.uk
    

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40. The medium shapes
    the medium.
    

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41. ?
    

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42. There’s a world of
    Graphic Design
    older than the web.
    

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49. vogue.com
    

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59. Layout should
    serve the content.
    

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60. MAGAZINES
    

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61. 1.
    

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65. CSS Shapes
    

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66. Jeremy Keith
    
    Jeremy Keith lives in
    Brighton, England where he
    makes websites with the
    splendid design agency
    Clearleft.
    

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

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

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69. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate

    Recommendation
    Proposed

    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Shapes, Level 1
    March 20, 2014
    w3.org/TR/css-shapes-1
    

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73. shape-outside: circle();
    shape-outside: ellipse();
    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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74. labs.thewebahead.net
    

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75. github.com/jensimmons/thelayoutsahead
    

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

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77. 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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85. Shapes Level 1 — NOW!
    shape-outside: foo();
    Shapes Level 2 — Later
    shape-inside: foo();
    

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87. 2.
    

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91. Multiple Column
    Layout
    

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92. article {
    column-width: 200px;
    column-gap: 2em;
    }
    

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94. img {
    width: 100%;
    }
    article {
    column-width: 200px;
    column-gap: 2em;
    column-rule: 

    1px solid #444;
    }
    

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95. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate

    Recommendation
    Proposed

    Recommendation Recommendation
    CSS Multicolumn Layout
    April 12, 2011
    w3.org/TR/css3-multicol
    

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97. 3.
    

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102. 
     
     
     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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103. img {
     float: left;
     margin-right: 2em;
     width: 50%;
     }
     div {
     padding: 2em;
     }
     

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

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

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109. 
     Full-height “Cover
     Sheets” are the new Splash
     Page
     
     Lorum ipsum article
     content…
     

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110. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     padding: 3em 6em;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin-top: 0;
     text-align: center;
     }
     

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111. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     padding: 3em 6em;
     height: 100vh;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin-top: 0;
     text-align: center;
     }
     

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114. Viewport Units
     

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115. 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,
     Level 3
     July 30, 2013
     w3.org/TR/css3-values
     

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120. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     padding: 3em 6em;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: 0;
     text-align: center;
     }
     

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121. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     padding: 3em 6em;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: 0;
     text-align: center;
     }
     

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122. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: 0;
     }
     

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123. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     display: flex;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: auto;
     }
     

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124. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     display: flex;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: auto;
     }
     

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126. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     display: flex;
     align-items: center;
     justify-content: center;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     // margin: auto;
     }
     

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127. header {
     border: 20px solid #000;
     background: yellow;
     min-height: 100vh;
     display: flex;
     align-items: flex-end;
     justify-content: flex-end;
     }
     h1 {
     font-size: 10vw;
     margin: 0;
     }
     

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128. Flexbox
     

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     Candidate

     Recommendation
     Proposed

     Recommendation Recommendation
     CSS Flexible Box Layout, Level 1
     May 14, 2015
     w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1
     

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136. 5.
     

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138. CSS Grid Layout
     

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     Candidate

     Recommendation
     Proposed

     Recommendation Recommendation
     CSS Grid Layout, Level 1
     March 17, 2015
     w3.org/TR/css-grid-1
     

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141. from gridbyexample.com
     

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143. Old School
     Floats
     

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144. Dynamic
     Grids
     

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150. When?
     

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151. When Can I Use This
     in Production?
     (aka on a Real Website)
     

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152. Why Did You Tell Me About 

     All This Stuff 

     I Totally Can’t Use Yet?
     

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153. Do Websites Need To Look
     Exactly The Same in Every
     Browser?
     

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154. DoWebsitesNeedToLook

     ExactlyTheSameinEvery

     Browser.com
     

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156. Progressive
     Enhancement
     

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158. When Can I Use This?
     Later
     Grid Layout
     Exclusions
     Shapes Level 2
     Uncertain
     Regions
     More?
     Round
     Fragmentation
     Figures
     Overflow
     (???…)
     Last Fall
     Shapes Level 1
     Flexbox
     Viewport Units
     5 Years Ago
     Rotation
     Multicolumn Layout
     Dynamic Grids
     (odd numbers of columns, 

     ratio grids)
     

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159. Hardest part is
     changing our thinking,
     not our CSS.
     

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160. Reinventing
     Web Layout
     

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166. Translate.
     Don’t Transfer.
     

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170. (*Totally stolen from Karen McGrane’s incredible talk, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content.)
     

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173. The most
     dangerous phrase
     in the language is
     ‘We’ve always done
     it this way.’ 

     — Grace Hopper
     

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174. One Last Story
     

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179. ?
     

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180. THE WEB AHEAD
     thewebahead.net
     JEN SIMMONS
     @jensimmons
     Thank you!
     Mozilla Designer Advocate
     

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