Workshops
Tuesday at The Merchant Hotel
Sometimes you need to get your hands dirty to learn. Spend your day with a grizzled veteran thought leader and emerge victorious with fancy new skills.
Jeremy Keith
10am - 4pm with breaks and lunch
What Will I Learn?
Ensure every visitor can see your info
When to switch layouts using media queries
Apply fluid layouts based on percentages
Serve different images for different environments
How to prioritize content
Responsive Enhancement
Responsive design is one of the most exciting developments to hit the web for some time. But there’s a common misconception that it involves merely slapping some media queries on to an existing desktop-centric site and labeling the result “mobile-friendly.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
This workshop will demonstrate that truly effective responsive design must begin with the content first, which is then progressively adapted to a multitude of screen sizes and environments.
This workshop will help you to construct web sites that will feel natural on a whole range of devices, from mobile phones to tablets, laptops, e-readers and devices we haven’t even thought of yet.
Simon Collison
10am - 4pm with breaks and lunch
What Will I Learn?
Establish your own design backbone
Learn to exploit our own unique patterns
Explore systems with type, colour, layout
Understand motive, restraint, and play
Make use of visual grammar in your work
Design To Communicate
It’s important to understand how established principles and new thinking can encourage a more productive dialogue with peers and audiences. Design itself is not a science, but the appropriate use of analytically-minded approaches exposes the line between effective and awkward, between communicative and mute. By strengthening our mental and analytical approach to what is often done arbitrarily or "because it feels right", we simply become better designers.
With enjoyable theory and practical examples, Simon will share ideas for stronger and better informed communicative web design, explaining the science behind the decisions we make and the meanings they convey. He'll explain that a thorough understanding of how we perceive information can help web designers make more meaningful work.
The Standardistas
10am - 4pm with breaks and lunch
What Will I Learn?
Idea Generation
Moving From Idea to Execution
Thinking Through Paper
Using Typewriters, Scissors and Glue
Moon Landings - Fact or Fiction?
Analogue Heaven
In this hands-on workshop, delivered in the tried and tested Standardistas’ style®, we look back at the generations of designers that didn’t spend their days in front of a computer, instead plying their craft using a wealth of analogue tools: pen and paper, scalpels, ink and even typewriters. By re-learning how to design without a computer, we can develop a richer and more varied visual grammar, based on the timeless design principles of pre-personal computer yore.
Armed with some fundamental design principles and an abundance of tools – which naturally includes the Standardistas’ ‘Bag of Awesome™’ (containing a veritable cornucopia of material) – we show the aspiring analogue designer a range of methods for breaking out of the often clichéd stranglehold of the digital world.
