A Dialect of Our Own Design

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A visual language informs all design, from architecture to print. Fluency in the same language drawn on by Bauhaus, mid-century Swiss, or postmodern design is essential for brilliant web design. In this practical talk, ground uniquely web-based interactions—from complex CSS3 animations and rotations to JavaScript behaviors—using that time-tested visual primer. Take a more considered approach to choices, evoke the desired emotive responses, learn how to better articulate your design decisions. Extend graphic design’s grammar into a visual dialect of web design that guides us to smarter, beautifully balanced juxtapositions of elements in our new, multidimensional web experiences.

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A DIALECTOF OUR OWN DESIGN

SIMON COLLISONInterlink, June 2011

@colly colly.com

PART ONE

EVERYTHING

AN ESTABLISHED

VISUAL GRAMMAR

MEANING & PERCEPTION

MENTAL MODELS

The models people have of themselves, others, the environment, and the things with which they interact.

MENTAL MODELS

Environment

Experience

Environment

Others

Me

Instruction

Interaction

MAPPING

The relationship between two things.Natural mapping leads to immediate understanding.

MAPPING

Control Outcome

UnderstandingControl Outcome

AFFORDANCE

An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action.

AFFORDANCE

SEMIOTICS

The study of signsoffering an explanation of how people extract meaning from words, sounds and images.

SEMIOTICS

Symbol Icon Index

TYPOGRAPHY

By using typographywe give a written idea a visual form.

TYPOGRAPHY

COLOUR

Colour can bring designs to life, inform hierarchies, create bonds between elements, add pace or emotion.

COLOUR

THINK SMARTER

PART TWO

AND SO TO WEB

OUR

VISUAL GRAMMAR

OUR

MISTAKES

UNIQUE PATTERNS AND INTERACTIONS

EVOLUTION OF

THE FRAME

DESIGNING

SYSTEMS

We don’t design web pages.We design systems.

SYSTEMS

OUR

VOCABULARY

RESPONSIVE

WEB DESIGN

SO...

WHAT NEXT?

THANK YOU

SIMON COLLISON

@colly http://colly.com

FURTHER READING

Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Principles of Form and Design by Wucius Wong

Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton

Mental Models by Indi Young

Communicating Design by Dan Brown

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