Design paradigms have changed over time, especially when we talk about web design. More devices with more resolutions; users that access our websites with assistive devices and from their mobile data connections, now — more than ever — we have to adopt to this new web. Lucijan will tell us more about how to move the design process to the browser.
Lucijan for himself says that he’s a front–end designer, casual gamer and a big ABBA fan. How he started started with WordPress?
Like most WordPress developers, I’ve started with Joomla. 🙂 With WordPress gaining momentum and really great improvement on the back–end and front–end, for developers and users alike — it was natural decision to switch. One of my first WordPress themes is still in active use today http://www.ubuntu-hr.org/ (probably built from all the worst practices, according to today standards). Although I don’t do much WordPress theme development nowadays (mostly for my personal blog theme) I try to contribute in my free time by helping organize meetups and sharing my experience.
The Talk
You will talk about something that a lot of designers still don’t do – but we see this number change everyday. What “designing in the browsers basically means”?
It is basically a nice way to say “don’t over–design in Photoshop and dedicate additional budget for front–end if possible, where most of design decisions will affect actual users, for the better”. It’s an all round talk about my process to designing websites and benefits of creating style guides and improving design through code with strong emphasis on usability and accessibility. The topic is especially important for smaller teams and companies where roles are not clearly separated. Designers and developers should work together — now more than ever — and designing in the browser keeps both parties engaged in making informed decisions based on actual feedback and not assumptions.
Get your ticket today!
We have released 200 tickets with a price of $20 (around 130 kn) and you can buy them at the Tickets page. The ticket gets you the entrance on the conference day, lunch, goodies from our sponsors, WordCamp Split t-shirt and the entrance to the afterparty with free drinks included.