The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and Friends

For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".

I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.

This talk was given at CSS Day 2016.

Transcript

1. Great TH E Design S TATE O F
5. Steve Jobs Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. ‘‘
6. I’m excited to start working on this project!
7. Six more projects are also kicking off?
8. How many revisions? For 
 each screen size
 in Photoshop?
9. Wait, isn’t this out of scope?
10. Did you just say Internet
 Explorer 8?
11. Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping!
12. 8 incoming meeting requests?
13. Time Excitement
14. Time Excitement
15. a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better noun | com·pla·cen·cy | \kəm-ˈplā-sən(t)-sē\ complacency
16. ‘‘ Douglas Adams I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. I love deadlines.
17. Component Design
18. Data-informed v over analytics | usability testing | a/b testing
19. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said Henry Ford faster horses. ‘‘
20. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said Henry Ford faster horses. ‘‘
21. Above the Fold best practices?
22. 3-Click Rule best practices?
23. KLPA (Joshua Kulpa) Andy Clarke, “Counting Stars: Creativity over Predictability” ‘‘I fear that we're creating a web the full of safe designs because we’re driven by the need in some of us for predictability, reliability and for repeatability …
29. shape-outside
35. ? Is web design a solved problem
37. Prague’s new coffee scene ◇ Making bikes with bamboo The enduring craft of screen printing ◇ Discover Riga Hand-made soap ◇ Manhattan’s fashion collaborators The sugar shacks of Quebec ◇ How to taste coffee Digital Edition, Autumn 2016 craft & create Artist Spotlight Shyama Golden Shyama Golden, 1 known for her huge, humorous paintings, has transitioned from being a graphic designer to an illustrator and, more recently, from oil paints to the iPad. interview Elliot Jay Stocks artwork courtesy of Shyama Golden Did you always want to be an illustrator? Yes — I’ve been drawing ever since I was really little, but I studied graphic design when I went to col- lege, and pretty much worked solely on graphic design for 10 years after that. However, the school I went to was really focused on studio art; it was more traditional, I think, than most schools. I did a lot of screen printing too, which I love because it uses both the problem- solving skills of a designer and the drawing skill of an illustrator. I stuck with graphic design for a really long time, but there was always a part of me that wanted to draw more. Recently I’ve transitioned into doing that: these days I do branding and identity design as a part-time job, and spend most of my time doing illustration. Even with 80 1. shyamagolden.com 95 With its origins seated deeply in the past, the process of screen printing continues to intrigue people, with the craft seeing a revival in modern times. Screen printer Jonny Akers walks us through screen printing’s origins and current incarnation. craft & create words Jonny Akers photographs Elliot Jay Stocks Enduring Crafts Screen Printing craft & create E N D U R I N G C R A F T S Screen printing in its basic form dates back over 2,000 years. Whether it be cutting shapes from banana leaves to make a stencil and forcing ink made from natural pigments through them, or making frames stretched with human hair to form a mesh, people all over the world have been using screen printing to reproduce imagery for quite some time. I encountered screen printing for the first time in 2004 while studying a fine art degree in Leeds. After a brief introduction to the printmaking facilities, I used screen printing on and off throughout my degree, but I never realised how involved I’d become with the process in the future. Today I run a wedding stationery business called The Old Market Printing Co 1 with my wife Charlotte. With her hand-lettering, illustration, and contemp- orary designs, we use heavyweight paper stock, and metallic and neon inks to make clean, modern, alter- native wedding stationery. Making and printing by hand is something I’m passionate about, and one reason why I’ve never ventured into automatic printing machines. I feel that once you’re no longer pulling ink through the screen by hand, the process is too commercial and loses part of the magic of printmaking. While I’m printing by hand, I’m still in full control of the finished print, and it contains more of the experience and skill that I’ve obtained over the past 10 years. And I’m not alone in my passion for screen printing by hand. Recently, there’s been a huge revival for all things artisanal, with screen printing included. Various websites have emerged, selling rudimentary illustration Ed J Brown 1. theoldmarketprintingco.com
41. .intro::first-letter { initial-letter: 7; } initial-letter ::first-letter 7
43. @supports (property: value) { property: value; } @supports ( property: value ) feature queries
44. @supports (initial-letter: 7) { .intro::first-letter { initial-letter: 7; } } initial letter
45. @supports (initial-letter: 7) or (-webkit-initial-letter: 7) { .intro::first-letter { initial-letter: 7; -webkit-initial-letter: 7; } } initial letter
46. ::initial-letter ::initial-letter
47. ::initial-letter ::initial-letter
50. CSS Shapes
55. Shape-inside
57. CSS Blend Mode
58. CSS Blend Mode
59. Shape-inside
61. Clip path
62. Clip path
63. css filter
64. http://codepen.io/stacy/pen/86840fb6d32b941a73e5435f4f27d4e9?editors=1100
65. bennettfeely.com/image-effects layered backgrounds
79. css “layout” methods history tables flexbox floats grid
80. flexbox or
87. implicit explicit
88. grid-template-columns rows size, size; grid-template-columns: 1fr 2fr 1fr;
95. repeat( number of repitions, size ) repeat grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
97. grid-column-start / grid-column-end | grid-column: value; grid-column: 1 / 4; grid-column
102. span span number ; grid-column: 1 / span 3;
104. -1 grid-column: 1 / -1; -1 = value used to span the remaining row/column
105. grid-row-start / grid-row-end | grid-row: value; grid-row grid-row: 1 / 4;
110. grid-row-start / grid-column-start / grid-row-end / grid-column-end grid-area grid-area: 1/1/3/4;
112. [ line-name ] size [ line2-name another-name ] size named lines grid-column: line-name;
114. [ line-name ] size [ line2-name another-name ] size grid-area: row-main / col-large / row-gallery / col-small; grid-area
115. “header” “byline” “content” “aside” “footer”; grid-template-area
116. grid-template-area: “header header header” “content content byline” “………………… aside ………………” “footer footer footer”; grid-template-area
117. header { grid-area: header; } grid-area name
122. size grid-auto-rows: 20vh; grid-auto-columns rows
123. dense - fill in holes earlier in the grid if smaller items come up later sparse | dense & row | column grid-auto-flow
125. minmax minmax( min size, max size ) grid-auto-rows: minmax(100px, 30vh) ;
126. auto-fill repeat( auto-fill, size ) grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, 1fr);
127. all together now repeat( auto-fill, minmax( min size, max size ) ) grid-template-rows: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr) ) ;
128. grid-gap grid-column-gap | grid-row-gap: size grid-gap:30px; px, rem, em
130. start | end | center | stretch | space-around | space-between | space-evenly justify-content: start; justify-content
131. justify-items start | end | center | stretch justify-items: start;
132. justify-self start | end | center | stretch justify-self: start;
133. align-content start | end | center | stretch | space-around | space-between | space-evenly align-content: start;
134. align-items start | end | center | stretch align-self: start;
135. align-self start | end | center | stretch align-self: start;
137. .gallery { display: grid; grid-gap: 1rem; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(200px, 1fr)); grid-auto-rows: minmax(30vh, 190px); }
138. display: grid;
139. grid-gap: 1rem;
140. grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(200px, 1fr));
141. grid-auto-rows: minmax(26vh, 190px);
145. by Rachel Smith, then Miriam, and definitely Stacy
146. igalia.github.io/css-grid-layout/ gridbyexample.com labs.jensimmons.com codepen.io/stacy resources css-tricks guide to grid drafts.csswg.org/css-grid/ codepen.io/collection/XbwVGL
147. wishlist CSS Regions and Exclusions
148. Wilson Miner “When We Build” ‘‘We’re actually in the process of building an environment where we’ll spend most of our time for the rest of our lives …
149. Stacy Kvernmo @StacyKvernmo Great TH E Design S TATE O F