ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture
I like these design principles for server-side and client-side frameworks. I would say that they’re common sense but looking at many popular frameworks, this sense isn’t as common as it should be.
Tags: principles
A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto
Y’know, I’m on board with pretty much every item in this manifesto.
GDS design principles
A great set of design principles for gov.uk — I’ve added them to http://principles.adactio.com/
Shirky: View Source… Lessons from the Web’s massively parallel development.
An oldie but a goodie: Clay Shirky looks at the design principles underlying HTML in order to figure out what made it so successful. Even though this is fourteen years old, there are plenty of still-relevant insights here.
Jeremy Keith: One Web — Update 2011 - YouTube
My short talk from Aral’s Update conference in Brighton last September. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. If I only I had a handheld mic—then I could’ve done a microphone drop at the end.
Bullshit – Marco.org
Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to tolerate.
Design Principles // Speaker Deck
The slides from my presentation at this year’s An Event Apart. Such a fantastic event …it was an honour to be on the roster.
Understand The Web · Ben Ward
Given some recent hand-wringing about the web as a “platform,” it seems appropriate to revisit this superb article from Ben. The specifics of the companies and technologies may have changed in the past year but the fundamental point remains the same:
Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together. That is what makes it amazing, and that is what defines it. This purpose and killer application of the web is not even comparable to the application frameworks of any particular operating system.
Why are you fighting me? - Blog | Andy Hume
Andy responds to Joe Hewitt’s recent despondent posts about the web. I tend to agree with Andy: I think comparing the web to other “platforms” is missing the point of what the web is.
See also: http://benward.me/blog/understand-the-web
The Next 6 Billion | Web Directions
John reinforces the importance of universal access above the desire to build only for the newest shiniest devices:
Universality is a founding principle of the web. It is the manifesto the web has been built on, and I believe one of the key drivers of the almost unimaginable success of the web over these last two decades. We ignore that at the web’s peril.
[whatwg] The blockquote element spec vs common quoting practices
I’m getting behind Oli’s proposal to allow non-quoted footers within blockquotes in HTML. Here’s where I quote the design principles to support his case.
LukeW | An Event Apart: Design Principles
Luke’s notes from my talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Jeremy Keith Interview: Web Standards and Design Principles at An Event Apart
A quick chat with me in the hallway after my talk in Seattle.
LukeW | An Event Apart: Design Principles
Luke’s notes from my talk at An Event Apart Seattle do a good job of capturing the gist of what I was saying.
adaptive path » making design principles stick
Kate Rutter on the importance of keeping design principles out in the open.
An essay on W3C's design principles - Contents
Bert Bos's 2000 Treatise (published in 2003) is a must-read for anyone involved in developing any kind of format. "This essay tries to make explicit what the developers in the various W3C working groups mean when they invoke words like efficiency, maintainability, accessibility, extensibility, learnability, simplicity, longevity, and other long words ending in -y."
doesyourapi - user generated API design guidelines
Gareth is putting some wisdom of crowds behind the design of APIs. Vote on the principles that you think are important in a good API.