We’re not designing pages, we’re
designing systems of components.
Stephen Hay, Responsive Design Workflow
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Modularity matters now more
than ever.
Brad Frost, Atomic Design
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They are just
like LEGO!
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Language
Process
Experience
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Language
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Controlled vocabularies
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By naming objects we bring them
into existence… we draw them out
from nothingness.
James Britton, Language & Learning
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“Course poster”
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“Discussion”
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“Billboard”
“Billboard”
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“Billboard”
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Establish a shared language
foundation by building a pattern
library as a team.
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Name elements collaboratively,
based on their agreed high
level function.
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Make your design language part
of the everyday conversations,
to keep it alive and evolving.
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Process
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1. Sketches of key environments
2. Library of core objects
3. New environments
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1. Sketches of key environments
2. Library of core objects
3. New environments
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Creating new modules
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Image credit: littleBits http://littlebits.cc/
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Welcome area kit
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Start with the big picture. Define
patterns. Then use those patterns
as foundation for modular pages.
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Set up your pattern library as an
environment where UI decisions
are made, not just documented.
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Involve people from different
interests to design and test
new modular kits.
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Image credit: littleBits http://littlebits.cc/
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Experience
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When pieces are so easy to
re-arrange, how do you
achieve balance and tell a
coherent story?
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“Design standards
master”?
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Atomic design
and chemistry?
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Image credit: Makelight http://www.makelight.io/
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Image credit: Makelight http://www.makelight.io/
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Image credit: Makelight http://www.makelight.io/
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28 story segments
3 helper story segments
1 bridge story segment
Intro
Outro
Cover
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Intros
Outros
Standard segments Heroes
Bridges
Helpers
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What if you need to
break the rules?
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Integrated Modular
Flexibility for exceptions
Few shared components
No need to reconfigure
Low flexibility for exceptions
Many shared components
Need to reconfigure
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Image credit: OFIS architects
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Image credit: OFIS architects
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Image credit: “The Box” by Sibyl Kramer
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Course emails
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Identify simple rules for
classifying elements based on
their role in the overall design.
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Determine the degree of
modularity based on your
product’s unique requirements.
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Focus not only on the technical
efficiency, but the effect modularity
will have on your users’ experience.