but i'm a bloody designer!
DESCRIPTION
As presented at @media Ajax in London on 19th November 2007. So we spent years learning our craft - specialising - reading the CSS specs in bed, hardwiring the Photoshop keyboard shortcuts into our brains, working up a usability test subject patter and playing with sticky notes. Then along came Ajax. Until that point we could safely silo ourselves, locked away in our niche specialities. But producing good _applications_ requires more than that. Yes, we need our specialist skills but without a thorough understanding of both ends of the Ajax equation the result will be an unholy mess. Interface designer Mike Stenhouse will discuss how his working life has changed, what we need to know to produce good applications for the modern web and how many times he's thrown his toys out of his pram and whined "But I'm a bloody designer!"TRANSCRIPT
But I’m a Bloody Designer!
Mike Stenhouse / Trampoline Systems / Donotremove1
Specialisation2
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18/02/2005
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18/02/2005
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✤ Standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS
✤ Dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model
✤ Data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT
✤ Asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest
✤ JavaScript binding everything together
✤ 1996 iFrame Remoting
✤ 1998 Microsoft Remote Scripting
✤ 1999 Microsoft Office 2000 Web Access
✤ 2002 Flash 4 Remoting
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Sexy new !ameworks7
Javascript renaissance8
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Danger, Will Robinson!26
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Linear process29
molly.com
“Perl, PHP, ASP, .NET, HTML, CSS, RSS, ATOM, JavaScript, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, graphic user interface design as well as
interaction design. The applicant must have at least five years practical experience, and a
computer science degree is a plus.”
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✤ User experience designer
✤ User interface designer
✤ Web interface designer
✤ Web standards designer
✤ Usability consultant
✤ Accessibility consultant
✤ Web designer
✤ Web product designer
✤ Web interface developer
✤ Web standards developer
✤ Designer
✤ Rails developer
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Mike-a-like
“Photoshop, Usability, Accessibility, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Patterns, Databases. Good
communication skills essential.”
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Craig Mcmillan
“If you think you understand the problem then you clearly haven’t thought about it enough.”
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System aware designers34
Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton
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“There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming
things.”
Garrett Dimon / garrettdimon.com
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“Many people falsely assume that interface design can mask any ugly complexities of the underlying business. [...] You can put lipstick on a pig, but at the end of the day, it’s still a
pig.”
designcouncil.org.uk
“There was a clear and strategic requirement from the heads of design in [these 11 top global
brands] to recruit and train designers who demonstrate multi-disciplinary working,
business acumen and strategic thinking.”
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Jonathan Ive / designmuseum.org
“Twin shooting materials – moulding different plastics together or co-moulding plastic to metal
gives us a range of functional and formal opportunities that really didn’t exist before. The
iPod is made from twin-shot plastic with no fasteners and no battery doors enabling us to create a design which was dense completely
sealed.”
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Jon Lax / uxmag.com
“We invested $50,000 of our company’s money into a fund consisting of 10 companies we felt did a great a job at user experience. [...] In the one year period of our test, our UX investment
philosophy trounced the markets.”
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Interaction aware developers
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Jono DiCarlo / humanized.com
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“The easiest way to make a bad interface in your OSS project is to ignore it. Bad interfaces are the natural state of software: You’ll get one
unless you work hard to avoid it.”
Marc Hedlund / radar.oreilly.com
“Each developer is assigned to maintain their own features and respond to bug reports from
users.”
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Collaboration44
adaptivepath.com
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“Designers learn empathy by spending time in the lives and environments of real customers.”
Agile46
✤ Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
✤ Working software over comprehensive documentation
✤ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
✤ Responding to change over following a plan
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Pairing48
Design49
Development50
Features51
Test driven development52
Pairing on testing53
Behaviour driven development
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wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_driven_development
“What should this do?”
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Matt Biddulph
“You can tell people how it feels but everyone needs their own epiphany.”
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Josh Davis
“People that don't, you don't have to – it's not going to make a bad DJ good – but it'll make a
good DJ better.”
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But I’m a Bloody Designer!
Mike Stenhouse / Trampoline Systems / Donotremove63
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