Building Web User Interfaces with Jen Myers
Carl and Richard talk to Jen Myers about user interface design on the web. The conversation starts out with a broad focus on what has been happening on the web with HTML 5 - the emergence of the Single Page Application (SPA) and the improvements on separation of data, structure and formatting. Jen focuses in on the challenges of the least mature of the trifecta of web applications - CSS. CSS is only at version 3; HTML and JavaScript are older and more mature. And while CSS3 is a pretty good version, there are still challenges there and there are tools to address them.
Guests:
Jen Myers
Jen Myers is an independent web designer/developer and teacher. In 2011, she founded the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of Girl Develop It, an organization that provides introductory coding classes aimed at women, and currently co-leads the Girl Develop It Chicago chapter. She speaks regularly about design, development and diversity, and focuses on finding new ways to make both technology and technology education accessible to everyone.
Links:
- C#/XAML to HTML 5 http://cshtml5.com/
- Sass http://sass-lang.com/
- Less CSS http://lesscss.org/
- Stylus CSS http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/