November 20, 2015 Future of Web Design 2015 Participation Report

In this session, in order to support responsive web design, the focus was on coding graphs and charts with HTML and CSS rather than using images. Furthermore, coding the content ensures that graphs and charts are accessible.

This seminar discussed the reality that increased adoption of smartphones and other mobile devices has witnessed the relationship between our daily lives and technology become increasingly intertwined, thus allowing us have access to information anytime, anywhere. On the morning commute, during the day, in the evening - the devices used to access the internet are different as are the purposes of our being online. The speaker Jon Setzen introduced much data about use patterns. I felt that in the future, it will be possible to successfully anticipated users' needs and wants and provide web design to match various user scenes 24 hours a day.

Unlike more conventional user testing, this session detailed the unexpected results from a drunk subject participating in a user test.

The inebriated male reviewed designs from a different perspective and provided truer and more honest user feedback. This offered facilitators the opportunity to gain fresh insights.

The talk began by noting that recent website layout tends to follow a similar pattern.

Although design on websites cannot be identical design layout on paper, the speaker Jen Simmons noted that with new CSS3 properties, for example shapes modules and multi-column layout, we may be about to see a change in design layout patterns. This means that it will be possible to take design inspiration from the publishing industry, with its long history, to produce beautiful online designs.