As another deverloper/designer who handles both sides of the coin, I'd be inclined to suggest that the most valuable means of presentation is something practical and to the point. Trying to teach design principle fundamentals in a single 15-20 minute presentation is going to be difficult at best, and will be even harder for someone to take anything away from.
I've just started a new rails-based app at work, and as part of it, I've built a set of stylesheets, templates and FormBuilders that I'm happy to open-source and use as a practical demonstration of some basic design and usability principles, ie: - advantages of grid-based layouts - ui consistency - Fitt's law / usability fundamentals - effective use of HTML and CSS for layout and usability - 960-based layouts I'd also be willing to do a basic "makeover" of someone's admin interface if people think it would be a good teaching method. -- Dan Cheail Chief Geek, Codeape. phone: 0402 114 697 web: http://codeape.net On 07/02/2009, at 2:47 PM, Brodaigh wrote: > That's all really nice fellers but it doesn't answer my question > (bar a couple). > > I deliberately left the original post open-ended so as to see what > might come up fully aware that one way of looking at it is, there is > no answer. > > I'm not looking for the forest I'm looking for the trees. > > So, let's focus on aesthetics and lets make this really simple; > what's one thing that you think, if you improved or understood > better or even liked better would enable you one success. > > Forget "I'm not a designer, I'm a developer" that's like saying > "I'm not gay, I'm straight so i cant dress like a gay guy", whether > you want to or not, is what's relevant. I could take that further > but in good taste, I won't. > > Oh and yes aesthetics -subjective. Ok but lets just say that you > want to make something that looks good to you. > > It may be how you come to a decision and having a point where that > decision needs to meet. > > I could assume there's no technical issue because you're all good > at solving technical issues. > > Anyway, if anything comes to mind it would be great if peeps could > post it here or email me, broda...@gmail.com. > > PS. did you notice all my paragraphs are out of alignment? > > :-) > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Stuart Coyle > <stuart.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And for Linux users there's Agave! I find it quite useful for color > scheme selection. > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Xavier Shay <xavier-l...@rhnh.net> > wrote: > > > > Paul Fraser wrote: > >> I have just discovered this page which is quite spectacular, play > around > >> with it.... > >> http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromacolor > > http://www.colourlovers.com/ you don't need flash > > > >> > >> Paul Fraser > >> > >> > >> Paul Fraser wrote: > >>> Gareth Townsend wrote: > >>> > >>>> I think I a lot of us could benefit from a principles of design > talk: > >>>> > >>>> How to pick a group of colours that work together. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/mostpopular is of assistance > in this > >>> pursuit. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Paul Fraser > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Stuart Coyle > stuart dot coyle at gmail dot com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
