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

Jen Simmons
October 23, 2015

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.

Jen Simmons

October 23, 2015
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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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  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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  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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  116. Working Draft Last Call
    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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  129. Working Draft Last Call
    Candidate

    Recommendation
    Proposed

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

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  138. CSS Grid Layout

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  139. Working Draft Last Call
    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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