Design for Developers - Speaker Deck

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Design for Developers Please love us. Devstaff Heraklion • November 2015 Zaharenia Atzitzikaki • @sugarenia

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Design for Developers Please love us. Devstaff Heraklion • November 2015 Zaharenia Atzitzikaki • @sugarenia

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Hi.

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I’m Zaharenia.

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I’m a designer.

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I’m a designer.

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I’m a designer. Now Lead Designer at Workable

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I’m a designer. Previously freelancing, agency work Now Lead Designer at Workable

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Developers are cool.

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We’re on the same side.

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Don’t panic!

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Design can be taught

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Design is a method

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Colour

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Meet the colour wheel

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BASIC

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SECONDARY

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TERTIARY

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Warm versus Cool

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WARM

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COOL

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Using the colour wheel

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MONOCHROME

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COMPLEMENTS

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ANALOGOUS

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TRIADIC

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Adobe™ Color CC, y’all.

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How to create the perfect colour palette

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STEP #1 Choose a brand colour

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#1BBC9B

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STEP #2 Choose an accent colour

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#E64C66

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STEP #3 Use a light colour for the background

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#FAFAFA

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STEP #4 Use a dark colour for text

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#2D3E50

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STEP #5 Wrap it all with neutrals

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#AEAEAE

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Colour pitfalls

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Avoid black & white

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Success is green Error is red

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Don’t rely on colour alone

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When all else fails, steal

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Typography

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Web design is 95% typography. INFORMATION ARCHITECTS INC, 19 OCTOBER 2006

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Typography = cheat code

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Classiﬁcation

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Serif fonts are squiggly BIG CASLON, 150pt

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Sans-serif fonts are business PROXIMA NOVA, 130pt

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5ETKRVHQPVUCTGHWP HANZIPEN SC, 150pt

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Monospace fonts are cool MENLO, 100pt

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Find the perfect font

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Sans-serifs for interfaces

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Serifs for content

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Quality webfonts

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hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type

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femmebot.github.io/google-type

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FF TISA PRO (TYPEKIT)

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OPEN SANS (GOOGLE)

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CORNER STORE (TYPEKIT)

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SOURCE CODE PRO (GOOGLE)

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But I want to stay websafe!

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Readability

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Bump up your font size

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…and go bigger for mobile

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Pay attention to leading …OR LINE HEIGHT

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Keep your line lengths short

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Leave justiﬁcation to Word

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Test for edge cases

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Layout

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Need for grid

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Think of LEGOs

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Grids

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Horizontal or vertical

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12, 16 or 24 columns

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BASIC IDEA

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BASIC IDEA Make things align

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BASIC IDEA Make things align …but not too much

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Break the grid to your advantage

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Know your content

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White space

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Don’t fear the white space

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Graphics

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Icons

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Only use icons as visual aid

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Avoid icon overload

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Find the perfect icon set

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Please no.

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LOOK FOR

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LOOK FOR Size availability

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LOOK FOR Size availability Glyph variety

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LOOK FOR Size availability Glyph variety Style

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Streamline

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Streamline Icomoon

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Videos & Animation

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Video backgrounds are cool

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Showcase your product with an overview video

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Animations add pizzazz

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Your UI isn’t a Disney movie. SOPHIE PAXTON, 6 OCTOBER 2015

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Hands-on examples

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Usable forms

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Add lots of whitespace

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Stick with top, left-aligned labels

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Keep forms short

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Style all states

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Readable tables

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Add lots of whitespace

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Fix alignment

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Remove extra borders

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Style table headers

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Add zebra striping

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But wait, there’s more!

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book.sugarenia.com title TBA

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“So when is it out?”

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When it’s ready.

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Devstaff Heraklion • November 2015 Zaharenia Atzitzikaki • @sugarenia Thanks! You rock.