User:Kim/reading/The Webs Grain
Frank Chimero, 2015, https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain
- starts with stating his growing frustration and disappointment in tech
- states some basic but Website Questions regarding responsiveness
- Bicycle Bear Websites Websites that do what they are not supposed to (going against their grain) -- to what extend can that be good or bad?
Every Material has a grain, including the web. [...] Too often the internet is cast as a wide-open, infinitely malleable material.
Web Interfaces
- brings some website interface design examples
We use text as interface, because the nuanced but significant differences in technology's abstractions are difficult to communicate visually.
- we share similar design solutions because they make sense for the web, we're using the same materials
What would happen if we stopped treating the web like a blank canvas to paint on, and instead like a material to build with?
David Hockney
- Hockney's photographs resemble designing for screen vs Mona Lisa stands for designing for print
- control vs discovery, uniformity vs multiplicity
an edgeless surface of unknown proportions comprised of small, individual, and variable elements from multiple vantages assembled into a readable whole that documents a moment
Flux and Edgelessness
- Chimero presentation "What screens want", what does it mean to natively design for screen?
- he says flux – the capacity for things to change.
- and edgelessness – what I am not so sure about – there are edges we just dont often see them visually
- Chimero then states that on a practical level, working on websites also brings forth edgelessness of disciplines - maybe ideally but not yet!
Edgelessness in Interface Design
- In web design we dont have a fixed container size (like the printed page)
- so lets start with arrangements of content and then put them in different sizes
- ends the text with call to be cautious of too much convenience (in digital tech) because it limits agency