Pursuit of simplicity

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Th PURSUIT Of SIMPLICITY @KAROLINASZCZUR | SPAINJS | MADRID, 5-7th JULY

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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

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

EVENT ORGANIZER FOR MEET.JS.

KAROLINASZCZUR

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

- LEONARDO DA VINCI

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keep

calm

kiss

on

And

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Frameworks

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Bitchslap

Bootstrap

Pleas!m"

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over here

drawbacksSom!

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unsemantic poo

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learning curve

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override vs overwrite

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heavyweight code

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nonetheless

advantagesA few

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fast development

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testing made easy

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beginner friendly

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code generators

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sass is less

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the hype club

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responsive

boilerstraphtml9

Yes!

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closing thoughts

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the right

questions

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beautiful usable≠

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SIMPLICITY minimalism≠

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be user-centric

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don’t overdo it

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