"Real Art Direction on the Web" - View Source Conference talk by Jen Simmons

We finally have the tools necessary to create amazing page designs on the web. Now we can art direct our layouts, leveraging the power and tradition of graphic design.
In this eye-opening talk, Jen will explore concrete examples of an incredible range of new possibilities. She’ll walk through a step-by-step design process for figuring out how to create a layout as unique as your content. You’ll learn how Flexbox, Grid, Shapes, Multicolumn, Viewport Units, and more can be combined together to revolutionize how you approach the page - any page.
View Source Berlin 12-14 September, 2016
Dubbed “the Terry Gross of the tech industry,” Jen Simmons is the host and executive producer of The Web Ahead. Her in-depth interviews explain emerging technology and predict the future of the web - and won the 2015 Net Award for Podcast of the Year.
Jen is a Designer and Developer Advocate at Mozilla, where she advocates for web standards and researches the coming revolution in graphic design on the web. She’s spoken at events including SXSW, An Event Apart, Fluent, Generate, Future of Web Design, and Respond. Her talk, Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts, was awarded Best Conference Presentation at CSS Dev Conf 2014.

[@tonsfocus]

Jen Simmons - we're not worthy!! :-) I was really enjoying this talk and getting excited about cutting-edge possibilities in web design and layout, but when I got to the demo starting at 21:45 I was on my feet clapping too (well, in my head I was on my feet clapping, but.. still!). Keep on rockin' Jen!

[@ColorfulHalo]

Fascinating -and super inspiring. Awesome talk!

[@ProtopopGames]

A breath of fresh air:) I've been wondering what's next and how to breakout of layout ruts. Thanks for the animated and helpful talk.

[@makali]

How do I like this more than once

[@Rafiozoo]

Extremely inspiring

[@TheCoryKid]

I'm excited to see where these new features take web design. But they enable user-hostile design that will propagate because it's flashy.
Like animation 15 years ago, carousels 10 years ago, and scroll events 5 years ago.

[@leea4839]

Interesting stuff :)

[@martinf5133]

... and 10 months down the road the adoption rate is 70%! Grid is indeed a first in that aspect.

[@rossgeography]

wow

[@043mehdi]

Why wait till the users upgrade their browser?? Is it difficult for microsoft to push the upgrade like steam or origin force us to upgrade the client.

[@SeanGoresht]

Whether you use grid will always depend on your users' browser. The real question is whether you want to maintain two separate codebases: one for "cutting-edge" browsers; another for "legacy" browsers.