Modernism in Web Design Walter Ebert @walterebert WordCamp Berlin 13 May 2017
Modernism in Web Design
Walter Ebert@walterebert
WordCamp Berlin13 May 2017
MODERN?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
FORMFOLLOWS FUNCTION
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87106931@N00/1432715400/
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
LESSISMORE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_Van_Der_Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Pavilion Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye Gerrit Rietveld, Rietveld Schröder House Eileen Gray, e.1027
Dieter Rams
GOOD DESIGN IS AS LITTLE DESIGN AS POSSIBLE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams
http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124000500/http://www.yahoo.com/
http://spacejam.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000511234139/http://www.aol.com/
http://www.freenicetemplates.com/templates-preview/intro-306/index.htm
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html
Jakob Nielsen
Flash: 99% Bad
Jeffrey ZeldmanDesigning with Web Standards
http://lawsofsimplicity.com/
http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Build LessLess features
Less options/preferences
Less people and corporate structure
Less meetings and abstractions
Less promises
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20070515123342/http://www.37signals.com/
http://37signals.com/
https://www.google.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?933
Microsoft Metro Design
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design
FEATURES
http://cssstats.com/
https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready+translation-ready/
https://gitlab.com/walterebert/search-meetup-frankfurt
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/26/video-headers-in-4-7/
http://www.tielsa.de/en/home.html
https://www.gov.uk/
https://twitter.com/leisa/status/831366023316008960
https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/
Decisions, not Options
Clean, Lean, and Mean
Striving for Simplicity