Cole Peters — An Introduction to Constraint Based Design Systems
Design systems as codified constraints.
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Less Data Doesn’t Mean a Lesser Experience| TimKadlec.com
If you treat data as a constraint in your design and development process, you’ll likely be able to brainstorm a large number of different ways to keep data usage to a minimum while still providing an excellent experience. Doing less doesn’t mean it has to feel broken.
Design process for the messy in-between » cog & sprocket
Designing your design process:
- Know your strengths and focus resources on your weaknesses.
- Learn to identify the immovable objects.
- What has to be perfect now and what can be fixed later?
HTML5 Constraint Validation
The slides from a presentation by Drew on all the functionality that browsers give us for free when it comes to validating form inputs.
Half the battle of the web platform is knowing what technology is out there, ready to use. We’re all familiar with the ability to declare validation constraints in our HTML5 forms, but were you aware there’s a JavaScript API that goes along with it?
Dwitter
A social network for snippets of JavaScript effects in canvas, written in 140 characters or fewer. Impressive!
obstructions / choose your obstructions
Hit this URL to give yourself a design constraint (or obstruction). Kind of like Brian Eno’s oblique strategies but with different categories of constraints: formal, methodological, and conceptual.
The web is not print and other stories
Rachel takes a look back at twenty years of building on the web. Her conclusion: we’ve internalised constraints that are no longer relevant, and that’s holding us back from exploring new design possibilities:
Somehow the tables have turned. As the web moves on, as we get CSS that gives us the ability to implement designs impossible a few years ago, the web looks more and more like something we could have build with rudimentary CSS for layout. We’ve settled on our constraints and we are staying there, defined by not being print.