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I think there is a sweet spot between automatically laid out elements on a fixed sized canvas. Responsive design is the root of all evil, and we would have a lo
by j-pb 4y ago
I think there is a sweet spot between automatically laid out elements on a fixed sized canvas.
Responsive design is the root of all evil, and we would have a lot less headaches with something like hypercard, where modularity and responsiveness happens at a functionality level, i.e. more screen estate? -just show more cards.
- taeric 4y agoI suspect that automation at construction time is also generally positive. Basically, have a tool that will lay everything out, but then leave it in such a way that you can manually move things around. And once things are "built", have them be fairly locked in to what was chosen at construction. This would move web design to be a lot more like many other design tasks. Even if something parametric goes into designing type faces, as an example, on build, that is all gone.
- wruza 4y agoAlso, this is what designers do anyway. Nobody draws a full-screen sketch and expects a css guy to infer all other form factors. We literally have source materials for all widths. If designers just left their designs in an (x,y) format and sent it to a constraint programmer with notes on what expands/wraps where, it would be a very natural job continuation. But instead they re-cipher these results into a grid-boxed-media-query pepe silvia form which entangles everything beyond all repair.
- taeric 4y agoIt is an amusing clash of trying to make semantic markup that is both describing the interface and describing the data in the document at the same time. And generally gets everyone yelling/focusing on different parts.