How I stopped worrying and learned to love defaults — with notes

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1. How I stopped worrying and learned to love Eric Eggert,

   @yatil Fronteers 2012 Jam, 03.10.2012 DEFAULTS I am Eric Eggert and I’m not talking about accessibility today. I'm talking about defaults and how they help to improve the workflow.

2. WTF are DEFAULTS I think about defaults as decisions that

   I made befor a decision is even necessary. Compare it to my iPhone 5 purchase, once I ordered it, the itch to go into a store and buy one reduced.

3. Design principles For oneself, there are three states of rules:

   first, there are general design principles, second, there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal stuff.

4. Design principles Conventions For oneself, there are three states of

   rules: first, there are general design principles, second, there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal stuff.

5. Design principles Conventions Defaults For oneself, there are three states

   of rules: first, there are general design principles, second, there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal stuff.

6. In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors

   over specifiers over theoretical purity. That's an example of an Design Principle by the w3c: the html5 spec says (read it) yet, in practice…

7. In case of conflict, consider implementors. …we got this! (Read

   it) So there are all those technologies around us, we shall use…

8. Grunt Adobe Edge VanillaJS Boilerplate Wireframes Photoshop Mockups Personas PubSubHubub

   Wordpress Drupal Contao CSS Filters Flash Bootstrap Boilerplate Moodboards Node GIT CVS SVN …WTF? I mean, that's a lot of stuff, that you’d need to learn. And most of this may not even be applicable to what you do anyways. So I'd like that you stick to your choices more often, it will improve how effective you are and may just produce good results.

9. Consider Apple. You may hate or love them, but they

   use that principle and sticked to some default. The 30 pin connector lasted for a long time, and now, it's time to replace it with the shiny *lightning* connector.

10. As you can see, it really is tiny, which was

    a requirement that Apple couldn't see until the iPhone5. Times changed and needs changed, so Apple changed its dock connector.

11. • Consider your choices carefully • Stick to your decision,

    don't be a sissy • Change as soon as you have to, but as late as you can Just want to give you three points on your way before I leave:

12. THX! @yatil yatil.net