Elements of Design: A Developer's Primer
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Lists seven concrete design rules (hierarchy, contrast, repetition, proximity, flow, typography, color) and demonstrates them with real sites—GitHub, BuzzFeed, NYTimes, Evernote, Airbnb, Craigslist, Hacker News, Etsy, V‑Files, Rap Genius—showing what to change and why. Offers practical tests like the blur test, reusable patterns (avoid unique one‑offs; group in threes to fives), measurable typography targets (35–65 character line length and ~1:1.5 line‑height) and when Bootstrap needs custom work.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 0:34Elements of Design
- 1:08Why Design Is Important
- 2:43Hierarchy
- 4:03Knowledge Headline
- 5:59Contrast
- 7:47Yahoo Widgets
- 11:53Facebook Feed
- 12:48Proximity
- 13:45Forms
- 15:20Airbnb
- 16:41Types of Flow
- 17:05Sample Idea for Flow
- 19:54Six Is Typography
- 21:32Typography
- 23:46Color
- 25:56Use Cultural Colors
- 26:21Etsy Listing
- 28:29Intuition
