What follows is a frankly massive essay in note form. These are the notes I made to justify the aims of Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design - a presentation I did for the FOWD Tour in Leeds, September 2009. Thus, there is a vast array of ideas, conclusions and speculations with regard to the future of our industry. Take it with a pinch of salt, and think of this as a conversation, and not a manifesto.
At last (and I am as relieved as you are), 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.
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.
After a short break, I’m back with part seven of The Process Toolbox, a transcript of my @Media presentation. Having dealt with inspiring creativity in the last installment, I’m moving on to conventions and flexibility. Without question or compromise, every website needs to be built with a solid foundation layer and an Ultimate Package.
Blimey, we’re now on part six of The Process Toolbox, a transcript of my @Media presentation. Already, I’ve covered backbone, collaboration, audience, methodology and the roadmap. With all of that in place, 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.
Here’s the third of several excerpts from my @Media The Process Toolbox presentation. As we all know, “If You Build It, they won’t necessarily come”. So, with the backbone in place, and collaboration established, it’s now time to define the audience.
This is the second of several excerpts from The Process Toolbox that I presented at the 5th @Media conference. In this post, I want to discuss collaboration. It’s hard to think of this as a “tool”, as it is more akin to common sense and efficiency, but so much of what we do relies on it.
Last week, I presented The Process Toolbox at the 5th @Media conference at London’s South Bank Centre. Over the course of 50 minutes I detailed a number of methods that can ensure a project runs smoothly. Since then, a number of people have asked for a transcript to accompany the slides, so I’m doing just that. Here’s part one.
By way of an introduction to our new laboratory, I decided to take stock of what we’ve achieved, how we’ve grown, the mistakes we’ve made, and what might happen next. It’s a rollercoaster, but not the kind that makes you sick - hopefully. Here we go.
So, some thirty months after Erskine Design was formed, we finally have a team blog. Somebody once said that smart people employ smarter or potentially smarter people than themselves. Well, that’s a compliment to Simon and I - and to the whole team. An indulgent yet fitting way to begin.
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