Prefab interface development and the problem of ease

Communication Design Quarterly Jan 2013

Prefab interface development and the problem of ease

Tom Lindsley

Abstract

To elaborate on a recent tweet by Dan Cederholm of the development studio, SimpleBits, and author of the standards-focused Bulletproof Web Design , current web development practice, with its many device, format, and user contingencies, is creating an ever-expanding and increasingly complex geography for novice web writers and developers to navigate and learn. For a novice to output the ceremonial "Hello world" in 2013 is to greet a world of web writing barely comparable to the inline-styled, table-formatted, and JavaScript-leery World Wide Web which many veteran developers first learned.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2013-01-01
DOI: 10.1145/2448926.2448929
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Topics: writing across the curriculum multimodality multilingual writers voice and style

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