Podcasts by Resilient Web Design
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Introduction from 2023-12-12T19:31:53.590633
With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book.
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Chapter 3: Visions from 2023-12-12T19:31:53.574962
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 that’...
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Chapter 7: Challenges from 2023-12-12T19:31:53.557226
The fourth annual conference on hypertext took place in San Antonio, Texas in December 1991. Tim Berners‐Lee’s World Wide Web project was starting to take shape then. Thinking the conference organi...
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Chapter 6: Steps from 2017-01-29T17:00
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”, said the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. “A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in ...
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Chapter 5: Layers from 2017-01-22T17:30
In his classic book How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand highlights an idea by the British architect Frank Duffy: “A building properly conceived is several layers of longevity.”
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Chapter 4: Languages from 2017-01-15T16:00
Jon Postel was one of the engineers working on the ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. He wanted to make sure that the packets—or “datagrams”—being shuttled around the network were delivered in...
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Chapter 2: Materials from 2016-12-26T12:00
At the risk of teaching grandmother to suck eggs, I’d 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. Th...
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Chapter 1: Foundations from 2016-12-16T09:00
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 en...
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