Pursuit of simplicity

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Nowadays developers are flooded with various libraries which are supposed to help and speed up the development process but often proove to be counterproductive. Same with design processes - designers are trapped with styles and hypes which they use without thinking. This talk aim is to show good practices within processes, emphasize the importance of decisions made within them and how they impact whole projects.Talk given at Spain.js conference in Madrid on 6th July. http://spainjs.org/

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Th!PURSUIT

OfSIMPLICITY

@KAROLINASZCZUR | SPAINJS | MADRID, 5-7th JULY

Hi!I’M KAROLINA. UX DESIGNER AT NODEJITSU.

EVENT ORGANIZER FOR MEET.JS.

KAROLINASZCZUR

sim·plic·i·tySIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF SOPHISTICATION.

- LEONARDO DA VINCI

keep

calm

kiss

on

And

Frameworks

Bitchslap

Bootstrap

Pleas!m"

over here

drawbacksSom!

unsemantic poo

learning curve

override vs overwrite

heavyweight code

nonetheless

advantagesA few

fast development

testing made easy

beginner friendly

code generators

sass is less

the hype club

responsive

boilerstraphtml9

Yes!

closing thoughts

the right

questions

A#$

beautiful usable≠

SIMPLICITY minimalism≠

be user-centric

don’t overdo it

attendee

thank

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