One Day Workshop
Designing Elegant CSS Interfaces
Taught by Cameron Moll
This full-day workshop is aimed at designers seeking to improve their interface design skills. You’ll leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to design interfaces that are a savvy blend of graphic design, human computing, and visual communication.
Taught by one of the web’s leading designers, this workshop will uncover the tenets of effective navigation schemes, dashboard design, grid usage, and other important principles. You’ll learn to avoid common UI pitfalls and to embrace worst-case scenarios. The material will cover Interface design for web applications but also for less functional layouts that make up the everyday corporate or institutional website.
Before the day’s over, you’ll dive into Photoshop and CSS tips and techniques that will help you refine and polish beautiful, usable designs. You’ll be taught how to draw inspiration from on- and offline sources, and you’ll gain access to top resources for icons, code snippets, and more.
Cameron never shies away from sharing what he’s learned through experience and continuing education for the benefit others, and this is your opportunity to spend a full day of training in an engaging and fun environment.
If you have any questions, or if you prefer to pay via invoice, just email .
Where and When?
- Friday, October 13th, 2006
- Workshop: 9am — 5:30pm
- Social: 6:30pm till late
- The Energy Clinic London, UK
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What You'll Walk Away With
- The Survival Kit
- - Each attendee will receive this amazing kit, which is chock-full of examples from Cameron Moll's library of UI designs.
- Years of Experience
- - years of valuable knowledge and experience. You'll be benefiting from all the triumphs and mistakes that Cameron has made over his career.
- Practical Knowledge
- - You will receive practical training that focuses purely on practical information that you can use immediately.
- 30% off Pearson Books
- - Just go to our special discount bookstore
Who should attend?
- Web designers who want to create crisp, clean easy-to-use interfaces.
- More advanced web designers / developers who want to design usable interfaces for applications or websites.
Past Reviews
"What a great workshop! Both engaging and useful." - Chris Graver, Bank of America
"No fluff, just good real-world developer info. Bravo!" - Christopher Kelly, State Farm Insurance
"Great real-world examples." -Ahren Gerber, elliance.com
"Superb organisation and preparation - thankyou!" - Andrew Hoskings
"A very valuable and interesting day." - Simon Goodwin
"The Survival Kit will be really useful for reference." - Seb Butcher
"I'll break even on this investment, both in terms of time and money, within one week!" - D Rondell
How large is the workshop?
We've limited the number of attendees to 40, so that you will be able to interact with the speaker and get your questions answered.
Schedule
- Registration & Coffee: 8:15 - 9:00am
- History of Computing Interfaces
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- Mac vs. Windows UI wars: Lessons learned over the years
- Interface principles defined during the early stages of operating system development
- How it all relates to web user interfaces
- Choosing the Right Approach
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- Wireframing, iterative design, and prototyping: What’s useful and what’s not
- AJAX as a critical and non-critical component within the UI
- Coffee Break: 10:30 - 10:45
- Web User Interface Essentials
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- Understanding the UI as a savvy blend of graphic design, human computing, and visual communication
- Common and uncommon navigation schemes, and solving navigation hierarchy problems
- Organized, well-designed application dashboards
- Effective dashboard design
- Working with grids to streamline position and size decisions
- Color and its role within the UI
- Copywriting as UI design, and the subtle nuances of text within navigation controls
- Lunch is provided: 12:30 - 13:30
- Managing the Complexity of Human Interaction
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- Top 10 UI pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Embracing worst-case scenarios, errors and edge cases
- How to streamline the design process by beginning with the “core” of a UI
- Designing for duplication in co-branded apps, forum software and the like
- CSS Proficiency In Interface Design
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- From image comp to coded page: How to design with CSS in mind
- Leveraging CSS across an entire website, and avoiding common CSS mistakes
- “Bulletproofing” the design of a layout
- CSS as an efficient tool for interface repurposing in co-branded apps, forum software and the like
- Coffee Break: 15:30 - 15:45
- Finessing Your Interface Design Skills
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- Beyond the basics: How to refine and polish beautiful designs
- Photoshop tips and techniques
- Drawing inspiration from exemplary web sites
- Top resources for icons, code snippets, and more
- Q & A: 17:00 - 17:30
- Social: 18:30 - till late
Who's speaking?
Cameron Moll
Recognized as one of the web’s most balanced designers, (Cameron Moll) is proficient in functional web design, clean markup, and CSS. Cameron has been involved in the design and redesign of scores of websites, and his influential techniques have found favor in circles across the web.
Cameron’s work has been recognized by respected organizations such as National Public Radio, Communication Arts and Veer. He was a contributing author for the book, CSS Mastery. His personal site delivers design how-to in the form of engaging conversation, on-topic banter, and downloadable artwork source files.
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