SARA CANNON HTTP://RAN.GE

Smart Design

Sara CannonPartner / Creative Director at Range http://ran.ge

@saracannon !

slideshare.net/saracannon

Design Styles & Trends

Skeuomorphic

synth76.com

Flat Design

Hyperlink

Button

Clippy Calendar by Ricardo Carlet

http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels

Skeuoflat

Eyedrop.me

What Is Smart Design?

Mobile First

Fast

Speed !

AwesomeV.S.

CON

NEC

TION

SPE

ED

IMAGE SIZE

Informed

User Experience

UX

Analytics

User Experience

Testing

usertesting.com

silverbackapp.com

Content Curation

as UX

Wait, where are the menus? vox.com

mashable.com

A/B Testing

optimizely.com

optimizely.com

Refined

Touch & Gestures

How Is It Held?image via http://thetechblock.com/visual-language-designing-for-touch

http://maniacdev.com/2012/05/open-source-library-for-easy-

clear-app-style-and-more-folding-transitions-between-

any-uiviews/

http://markpospesel.wordpress.com/

2012/05/10/anatomy-of-a-folding-animation/

Motion As Refinement

Medium.Com/Design-Ux/926Eb80D64E3

Pasquale D’silva

Iconfonts

Licensing

make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-resources

GPL

SIL

Open Font License

Creative Commons

css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont

Genericonsgenericons.com

GPL

content: '\f400';!!<div class="genericon genericon-search"></div>

CSS !

HTML

function twentythirteen_scripts_styles() {

...

// Add Genericons font, used in the main stylesheet.

wp_enqueue_style( 'genericons', get_template_directory_uri() .

'/fonts/genericons.css', array('genericons'), '2.09' );

...

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'twentythirteen_scripts_styles' );

functions.php

.tags-links a:first-child:before {

content: "\f302";

position: relative;

top: -1px;

}

style.css

function twentythirteen_entry_meta() {

....

$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentythirteen' ) );

if ( $tag_list ) {

echo '<span class="tags-links">' . $tag_list . '</span>';

}

...

function.php

@font-face {

font-family: 'genericons';

src: url('../fonts/genericons.eot');

}

style.css

@font-face {

font-family: 'Genericons';

src: url('font/genericons-regular-webfont.eot');

src: url('font/genericons-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),

url('font/genericons-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),

url('font/genericons-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),

url('font/genericons-regular-webfont.svg#genericonsregular') format('svg');

font-weight: normal;

font-style: normal;

}

style.css

<link href="path/to/genericons.css" rel="stylesheet">

header.php

function twentythirteen_scripts_styles() {

...

// Add Genericons font, used in the main stylesheet.

wp_enqueue_style( 'genericons', get_template_directory_uri() .

'/fonts/genericons.css', array(), '2.09' );

...

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'twentythirteen_scripts_styles' );

functions.php

Font Awesome

SIL

fontawesome.io

CSS !

HTML

content: '\f400';!!<i class="icon-search"></i>

function twentythirteen_scripts_styles() {

...

// Add Genericons font, used in the main stylesheet.

wp_enqueue_style( 'fontawesome', get_template_directory_uri() .

'path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css', array(), '2.09' );

...

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'twentythirteen_scripts_styles' );

functions.php

.icon-search:before {

content: "\f002";

}

style.css

wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome

Raphaël Icon-Seticons.marekventur.de

MIT

Elusive Iconsshoestrap.org/downloads/elusive-

icons-webfont

GPL

Socioconsrohitink.com/sociocons/

GPL

webdesignerdepot.com/2012/01/how-to-make-your-own-

icon-webfont/

inkscape.org

Font Generators

Fontastic.Me

Icon Moonicomoon.io

We Love Icon Fonts.Com

free and open source

Fontellofontello.com

SVGScalable Vector Graphics

1 KB5 KB

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.0.2, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"

width="249.994px" height="141.198px" viewBox="125.209 169.552 249.994 141.198"

enable-background="new 125.209 169.552 249.994 141.198" xml:space="preserve">

<g>

<path fill="#101010" d="M185.807,169.552v28.799l-12.4-0.2l20.6,80.799l22.2-80.799l-12.399,0.2v-28.799h55.599v28.799l-9.6-0.2

l-34.6,112.598h-45.799l-35.399-112.598l-8.8,0.2v-28.799H185.807z"/>

<path fill="#FF0013" d="M258.404,310.75v-28.8l12.601,0.2v-84l-12.601,0.2v-28.799h61.601c16.399,0.4,36.999,1,46.199,18

c4.601,8.4,5,16.6,5,19.8c0,2.4,0,7.8-2.601,13.6c-4.201,9.6-11.601,13.4-20.601,17.8c7,2,13,4,18,9.6c3.399,3.6,9.2,12.6,9.2,25.6

c0,11.999-5.2,22.601-15.2,29.397c-11,7.2-24.198,7.2-36.601,7.4H258.404L258.404,310.75z M307.805,226.351

c7.801,0,12.801,0.2,16-0.6c6.801-1.8,10.6-7.2,10.6-13.8c0-1.6,0-5.6-2.799-9.2c-4.4-6.2-10.801-5.4-23.801-5.6V226.351

L307.805,226.351z M307.805,281.95c12.399,0,20.199,0.601,25-2.8c4.6-3.199,4.6-9.4,4.6-10.801c0-4.8-1.6-7.6-2.6-9.199

c-4.199-5.601-10.199-5.799-16.601-5.799h-10.399V281.95z"/>

</g>

</svg>

vblogo.svg

jQuery( function($) { var supportsSVG = false; try { var svg = document.createElementNS("http:// www.w3.org/2000/svg",'svg'); supportsSVG = typeof svg.createSVGPoint == 'function'; } catch(e){} if ( ! supportsSVG ) $( 'body' ).addClass( 'nosvg' );} );

SVG Graceful Degradation JQuery

#site-title { background-image: url(../images/logo.svg);}!

.nosvg #site-title { background-image: url(../images/logo.png);}

SVG Graceful Degradation CSS

SVG

x2 .png

low res x2 .jpg

14kb

13kb

12kb

gabbyhome.com/contact-us

Noun Projectthenounproject.com

Icon Fonts v.s.

SVG

ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon-font-to-svg

Icon Fonts

!

!

SVG

Browser Support

Color Variations

v.s.

Stackiconsstackicons.com

janky?!

css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts

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