Modernism in Web Design

Walter Ebert@walterebert

WordCamp Berlin13 May 2017

MODERN?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

FORMFOLLOWS FUNCTION

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87106931@N00/1432715400/

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

LESSISMORE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_Van_Der_Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Pavilion Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye Gerrit Rietveld, Rietveld Schröder House Eileen Gray, e.1027

Dieter Rams

GOOD DESIGN IS AS LITTLE DESIGN AS POSSIBLE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams

http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20010124000500/http://www.yahoo.com/

http://spacejam.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/20000511234139/http://www.aol.com/

http://www.freenicetemplates.com/templates-preview/intro-306/index.htm

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

Jakob Nielsen

Flash: 99% Bad

Jeffrey ZeldmanDesigning with Web Standards

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

Build LessLess features

Less options/preferences

Less people and corporate structure

Less meetings and abstractions

Less promises

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20070515123342/http://www.37signals.com/

http://37signals.com/

https://www.google.com/

https://www.facebook.com/

https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?933

Microsoft Metro Design

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design

FEATURES

http://cssstats.com/

https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready+translation-ready/

https://gitlab.com/walterebert/search-meetup-frankfurt

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/26/video-headers-in-4-7/

http://www.tielsa.de/en/home.html

https://www.gov.uk/

https://twitter.com/leisa/status/831366023316008960

https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/

Decisions, not Options

Clean, Lean, and Mean

Striving for Simplicity

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