front end engineering - trials and tribulations with j. albert bowden II
I love microformats, POSH, (X)HTML, CSS, jQuery, Web Standards, Ketchup, Tom Foolery & Shennanigans.
I am a fronteer n00b, clean-code freak, strict validating, standards advocating, open source cheerleading, pirate bay something, firebug descripting? hall of fame stalking, behavior separating, design SOMETHING, {:hover:} obsessed, A List Aparting, zen gardening, position is everything IE fixing, semantic marking, machine code including, pirate bay colluding, cssplay drooling, meyerweb css/edging, adactio DOMinating, quirksmode praising, blue roboting, html doging, an event apart dreaming, molly stefsull emily fantasizing, all that malarking, stuff & nonesense barking, 456 berea streeting, clagnutting, dean edwards COMPRESSING? js linting, graceful degredating, foward compatibilling, john resig, snook, wasp stinging, w3c SOMETHING, behavior seperating, subversion TRUNKIN or BRANCHING, color theoring, image formatting, font-face deploying, lorem ipsum translating, character entitying, chrset utf8ing, university of minnesota-duluthing, jjg ajaxing http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php, world wide webbin' http://www.crockford.com/, javascript object-orienting, floaturial listorial maxdesigning, cameron molling, dan cedarhoming, http://www.digital-web.com/articles/separating_behavior_and_presentation/
“In his IA Summit 2009 closing plenary, Jesse James Garrett sounded the overdue death knell of division by job title. The information architect and the interaction designer are no more: we are all user experience designers, and we always have been. Amen.”
What is your definition of “design?” A plan for arranging elements in such a way as tobest accomplish a particular purpose.
Is design an expression of art (an art form)? The design is an expression of the purpose. It may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art.
Is design a craft for industrial purposes? No — but design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
What are the boundaries of design? What are the boundaries of problems?
