Notes from the Future of Web Design Conference
Like all good conferences, there was a lot of information to digest over the two days I spent at the Future of Web Design. So (before it all leaves my mind!) I wanted to record and share my notes.
Future of Web Design
People to Follow
Megan Fisher – gave a talk on “Designing Moble Interfaces” and works for Simple Bits
Mark Boulton – presented “Typography’s not the web, it IS the web” and is the founder of Mark Boulton Design
Mike Kus – talked about “Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard”
Molly Holzschlag – asked, “The Future of Web Standards, Is There One?”
Elliot Jay Stocks – ran a workshop called, “Effective Ways to Raise your Profile in the Web Design Industry”
Books to Buy
“Mobile Web Design” by Cameron Moll
“Designing with Web Standards” by Jeffrey Zeldman
Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton (**Highly Recommended – think this is the best book I’ve read on the subject)
Random Links
Dribbble – will be a social site for sharing your current design work (not yet launched, but you get on the email list now)
The Return of the Mobile Style Sheet – creating styles for mobile sites
MobifyMe – service which creates a mobile version of your current site
Progressive Enhancement – a web design strategy
Presentations
You can now grab the audio recordings (in MP3) from all of the presentations. Believe video will also be going up shortly.
Slides from the Mike Kus presentation “Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard” are now online.