In episode three of Using Blue we talk with Jeremy Keith of Clearleft about how HTML5 snuck up on him, responsive web design, catch phrases and catch phrases. We even have an audio version of the podcastthis time (we're still waiting on some modules to be ported from Drupal6 to Drupal7). To set things up we reference a great blog post on the mobile web divide that John wrote for the blog at Palantir.net.
We're both going to be at DrupalCon London!
Steve:
Making the Complex Simple - Session.
UX Deliverables Workshop - Still time to register!
John:
The Path to a Mobile Drupal - Session.
If you are a Drupal Association Member the early bird registration price has been extended until June 17, 2011. Totally worth it!
The Interview:
We head down a great path of discussion with Jeremy while we talk about:
- Buzz words in the industry.
- Html5.
- AJAX.
- How maybe UX and design are really the same thing.
- Brian Rieger and his work on yiibu.com
- How content management systems need to structure their content.
- Responsive web design as the most exciting thing to hit the web, maybe ever.
- Is Drupal a CMS or is it a framework?
- How naming conventions in Drupal can cause confusion.
- Who is Drupal really going after as their target audience.
- The concept of Drupal distributions.
- Native apps vs the mobile web with progressive enhancements. Jason Grigsby has a good post on how you can't link to an app and the issues with that.
- The mobile first approach that Luke Wroblewski writes and talks about and we love.
- Getting into the browser as fast as possible. Essentially designing in the browser whenever possible.
- Style tiles as an excellent communication tool in the design process.
- The upcoming dConstruct conference. An excellent conference in Brighton, UK on September 2, 2011.
- Also the Brighton Digital Festival.
Note: Steve apologizes for his audio. He forgot his fancy microphone at home while he was traveling to the Interlink Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Looking to the future...
Next episode we have an interview with Ethan Marcotte on responsive web design. Woot! Both Jeremy and Ethan's books are available on the A Book Apart website.