Resilient Web Design Podcast
1) Chapter 7: Challenges
The fourth annual conference on hypertext took place in San Antonio, Texas in December 1991. Tim BernersâLeeâs World Wide Web project was starting to take shape then. Thinking the conference organiser...Show More
2) Chapter 6: Steps
âAlways design a thing by considering it in its next larger contextâ, said the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. âA chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a c...Show More
3) Chapter 5: Layers
In his classic book How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand highlights an idea by the British architect Frank Duffy: âA building properly conceived is several layers of longevity.â
4) Chapter 4: Languages
Jon Postel was one of the engineers working on the ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. He wanted to make sure that the packetsâor âdatagramsââbeing shuttled around the network were delivered in th...Show More
5) Chapter 3: Visions
Design adds clarity. Using colour, typography, hierarchy, contrast, and all the other tools at their disposal, designers can take an unordered jumble of information and turn it into something thatâs e...Show More
6) Chapter 2: Materials
At the risk of teaching grandmother to suck eggs, Iâd like you to think about what happens when a browser parses an HTML element. Take, for example, a paragraph element with some text inside it. There...Show More
7) Chapter 1: Foundations
The history of human civilisation is a tale of cumulative effort. Each generation builds upon the work of their forebears. Sometimes the work takes a backward step. Sometimes we wander down dead ends....Show More
8) Introduction
With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. Itâs more like a history book.