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.
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.
Here’s part seven of The Process Toolbox, a transcript of my @Media presentation. Having dealt with inspiring creativity in the last instalment, I’m moving on to conventions and flexibility. Without question or compromise, every website needs to be built with a solid foundation layer - a reusable package.
Okay, part eight - and the penultimate transcript from The Process Toolbox. As much as all parties may talk about requirements and argue over features, often they won’t really “get it” until they can see the concept represented visually, and understand its exact behaviour. This brings us on to various methods of prototyping.
We’re now on part six of The Process Toolbox, a transcript of my @Media presentation. With five parts of the process already covered, we probably need to build something at some point. So, lets think about creativity. By getting the dirty work right, we can allow more time to do what many of us really love - design and develop stunning websites.
Part five now of my The Process Toolbox presentation. With the methodology in place, we can now focus on how the website will evolve and scale alongside exciting new initiatives, developments and shifts of focus? If we are building a “system”, how do we build it iteratively, and ensure it can evolve?
Time for the fourth of several excerpts from my @Media The Process Toolbox presentation. So far, we’ve looked at backbone, collaboration and audience. Now we can begin to refine the appropriate methodology.
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