Last week, what I consider to be an important new book was finally released. A timely overview of all things HTML and CSS, with added common sense and revolutionary calls to action, Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke is an absolute must-read. Here’s why.
Last week I ran a workshop for twenty-seven people at dConstruct, entitled Defining A Flexible Process. It was a real honour to be invited to put this together by my friends at Clearleft, and to once again visit that odd place they call Brighton.
Last week, I announced New Adventures in Web Design, a unique and affordable web event that will take place in Nottingham, England. A few days on and it seems like the right moment to provide a little background, and quickly address a few things.
Whilst my days are mostly spent chained to the desk, my blog is out there throwing it about. Never more so than the last few weeks, now that it’s wearing all this new-fangled responsive design stuff under its drawers. Well, I think it’s “adaptive”, not truly responsive, but anyway.
I’m back from my fourth trip to the Glastonbury Festival, where I celebrated its 40th anniversary in sweltering heat with 180,000 other lunatics.
Having just spent ten of the best days of my life in New York and San Francisco, I’d planned to write about some of my experiences. However, there is way too much to cover. Therefore, I simply present a list; a personal diary entry to trigger my own memories of people and places in years to come.
My brain hurts, my throat is hoarse, and my unwanted collection of Media Temple-branded lanyards has grown by one, which means I must be back from another Future of Web Design conference, where I presented my personal thoughts about our future. In order to avoid doing any proper work, I hereby present the usual rough and ready overview of the event from my slightly exhausted perspective.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at the incredible Sage Gateshead for the first DIBI conference; a two track event covering design and development, and the first of its kind in the region I once called home[1].
Having recently been to the United States and fallen in love with much of what I saw, I’m itching to go back. Thankfully, I don’t have to wait very long, as the second EECI conference is just a couple of months away. For those of you that live in isolation and may have missed the 4,678 reasons to attend, here’s a mini-overview.
At last, we reach the final transcript from The Process Toolbox presentation. Over the previous eight posts, we’ve looked at backbone, collaboration, audience, methodology, roadmap, creativity, convention, and prototyping. To conclude, we’ll look at a method for pooling all of this together to reduce noise and leave only the finest signals to present a project narrative - a single, focused design path.
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