HOW Slides: Web Design For Non-Web Designers

Last week I presented at the HOW Design Conference Denver, CO. Our
objective for HOW was to present well-formed technique, design
solutions and inspiration to designers looking to work online. The
challenge at hand being to convince a packed room of talented yet
overstimulated pro's that the web is not as complicated/different as
they are often led to believe. As promised, I have posted the Web Design For Non-Web Designers presentation online. (That was the link right there)

HTML5 was selected as the presentation engine because it was seemingly
the right time to do so. A lot of designers/developers were inspired
by the HTML5 slides built by Marcin Wichary & Ernest
Delgado, our goal was to add some web fonts and make it look nice.
Over the years I have used Powerpoint, Keynote and Flash to build out
often elaborate presentations, but now I am quite content trying to
push the HTML5 & JavaScript slides as far as possible. If there is
continued interest I can post more information about building the
presentation itself.

On the way back from Denver, I made some additions to the slides:

• Removed the PDF links, replacing them with Shadowbox.js galleries.
• Quickly added a print.css file, which means it will look nice when you hit print.
• Enabled the display of inline notes, just hit the 2 key (on a slide with notes).
• Cleaned up the copy a bit, added more resource links.
• Trimmed down the file size a bit. There is always room for more optimization.

The HOW Design Conference is a force for good, and I don’t often say such things
about big conferences. The attendees, speakers (and yes sponsors) are
a humble & talented group. Huge thanks to the folks at HOW and
everybody who stopped me to say hello and talk shop.

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