What follows is a jam-packed list of resources and thoughts generated from the final day of this fantastic conference. You can skip this if you’re not interested in another conference followup style post. It’s ok. For some reason, I often find these posts tiring to read. Perhaps it’s because there are so many of them, and they are in so many people’s feeds. I end up glazing over them all as they fill up my news reader. With that in mind, I’ve tried to keep it short.
- In the comments for Eric Meyer’s AEA Boston followup post was a reference to the “universal selector” code that I mentioned last time. This reminds me, I need to look closer at using the YUI Grids CSS next time I do a layout. His presentation on day 2 covered the use of CSS selectors for debugging in IE7, as well as Dean Edwards IE7 scripts.
- Cameron Moll touched on how to greyscale then blur an image of a site to evaluate design, navigation, etc. Others had mentioned this on day one as well. Mr. Moll also suggested Bruce Tognazzini’s article, The First Principals of Design.
- I really need to pick up a copy of Elements of Typographic Style. I did finally pick up a copy of the Rhino while I was there.
- Ethan Marcotte pointed us to an interview with Mike Davidson regarding the ESPN.com adoption of web standards in their redesign. Some of the resources and tools he suggested included Position Is Everything, how to use conditional comments in IE, and the IE developer toolbar.
- Jeffrey Zeldman delivered a wonderful presentation on Selling Design. A few of my favorite slides said things like “Build the relationship before you show the design”, and “Sell ideas not pixels”. I also really enjoyed the notes and links in the example client presentation he referenced. It was really interesting to see the process by which the Happy Cog folks comp up designs and interect with clients.
Mr. Zeldman has a nice collection of followup posts, photos, slides, and commentary.
Update: Eric Meyer has been working on his own version of a css “reset” stylesheet.
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