The work I like. — Ethan Marcotte
Ethan’s been thinking about the trends he’s noticed in the work he’s doing:
- prototypes over mockups,
- preserving patterns at scale, and
- thinking about a design’s layers.
On that last point…
The web’s evolution has never been charted along a straight line: it’s simultaneously getting slower and faster, with devices new and old coming online every day.
That’s why I’ve realized just how much I like designing in layers. I love looking at the design of a page, a pattern, whatever, and thinking about how it’ll change if, say, fonts aren’t available, or JavaScript doesn’t work, or if someone doesn’t see the design as you and I might, and is having the page read aloud to them.
