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How I stopped worrying and learned to love defa...

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How I stopped worrying and learned to love defaults

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Transcript

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

    @yatil Fronteers 2012 Jam, 03.10.2012 DEFAULTS

  2. WTF are DEFAULTS

  3. Design principles

  4. Design principles Conventions

  5. Design principles Conventions Defaults

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

    over specifiers over theoretical purity.

  7. In case of conflict, consider implementors.

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

    Wordpress Drupal Contao CSS Filters Flash Bootstrap Boilerplate Moodboards Node GIT CVS SVN
  9. None
  10. None

  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

  12. THX! @yatil yatil.net