how to speak designer
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How to speak designer
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Who am I?Mobile Technology
Manager
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Who am I?An odd duck…
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What is required to speak someone’s language?
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Empathy & Curiosity
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Designer Developer
Can overestimate the incremental cost of producing additional units.
Can underestimate the cost of one-off design elements or contextual variations.
May not account for the impact of device or data variations.
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May attempt to force everything to a pedantic consistency.
Can miss details that have a big impact on the design.
May surprise people with significantly different estimates for seemingly
similar tasks.
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Designer: Artisan Developer: Industrialist
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Designer: Artisan Developer: Industrialist
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Designer Developer
Can overestimate the incremental cost of producing additional units.
Can underestimate the cost of one-off design elements or contextual variations.
May not account for the impact of especially long or short data.
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May attempt to force everything to a pedantic consistency.
Can miss details that have a big impact on the design.
May surprise people with significantly different estimates for seemingly
similar tasks.
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Design Intake
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Ted FlynnFront End Asset Intake: The Art of Being Systematichttp://bit.ly/1njWWxX
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What to Audit
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▪ Text Attributes
▪ Colors and Opacity
▪ Design Variations
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Font Face, Weight, and Size
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TEXT ATTRIBUTES
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.Font Face: Hoefler Text Weight: Regular Size: 32
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.
Font Face: Roboto Weight: Black Size: 32
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Leading and Line Spacing
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TEXT ATTRIBUTES
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.Font Face: Hoefler Text Weight: Regular Size: 32 Line Height: 39
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.
Font Face: Roboto Weight: Black Size: 32 Line Height: 29
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Letter Spacing, Kerning, and Tracking
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TEXT ATTRIBUTES
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.Font Face: Hoefler Text Weight: Regular Size: 32 Line Height: 32 Letter Spacing: 0
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.
Font Face: Roboto Weight: Black Size: 32 Line Height: 29 Letter Spacing: .05 em
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Typography Matrix
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TEXT ATTRIBUTES
Font Face Size Leading Letter Spacing
Navigation Roboto 16 16 0
Inline Heading Roboto 17 20 0
Headline Roboto 44 40 0.05
Subhead 1 Roboto 17 20 0
Body Roboto 14 25 0
Caption Roboto 12 17 0
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Measure Colors
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COLORS AND OPACITY
Red #C60021
Opacity: 1.0
Red #C60021
Opacity: 0.9
Red #CF1E33
Opacity: 1.0
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Blend Modes Are Powerful (And Evil)
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COLORS AND OPACITY
Multiply: f(a,b) = ab
Darkens based on luminance, white is neutral.
Screen: f(a,b) = 1 - (1 - a)(1 -b)
Lightens based on luminance, black is neutral.
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Can you spot the problem?
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Going from Static to Dynamic
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Going from Static to Dynamic
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Going from Static to Dynamic
▪ Long names and numbers
▪Multiple lines
▪ Screen sizes (both addressable display pixels and resolutions)
▪ Image aspect ratios (i.e. portrait image in a landscape hole)
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DESIGN VARIATIONS
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Let’s Talk Animation
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Simplistic Animations
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Simplistic Animations
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Compound Animations
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Compound Animations
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What Does Good Look Like?
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▪ Complexity != Good. Craft and attention to detail == good.
▪ The goal is communication. It should tell a story.
▪ It’s a team sport
▪ As with seasoning and spices a little bit goes a long way
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Excellence is a partnership
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