Back in 2000, A List Apart published John Allsop\u2019s \u201cA Dao of Web Design,\u201d which argued that \u201cIt is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility.\u201d In 2010, Ethan Marcotte\u2019s \u201cResponsive Web Design\u201d picked up Allsop\u2019s call and modernized it, connecting the call to \u201cembrace this flexibility\u201d to a specific historical change (the tidal wave of mobile web usage) and a set of techniques for contemporary markup.<\/p>\n
What is it about the process of design that struggles so mightily to embrace the chaos? Why do otherwise digitally savvy publishers, editors, designers, and developers have such difficulty letting go? Is there an inherent conflict between \u201cdigital\u201d and \u201cdesign\u201d?<\/p>\n
This talk takes the philosophical and literary-historical shift\/tension between modernism and post-modernism and looks for signs that might help us understand the shifting sands under our own digital feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back in 2000, A List Apart published John Allsop\u2019s \u201cA Dao of Web Design,\u201d which argued that \u201cIt is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility.\u201d In 2010, Ethan Marcotte\u2019s \u201cResponsive Web Design\u201d picked up Allsop\u2019s call and modernized it, … Continue reading These fragments I have shored against my ruins\u2019: Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Responsive Web Design<\/span>