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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 8:32am.
PDX Web + Design Meetup
Thetus Corp. 326 SW Broadway 2nd floor Pizza, salads, drinks
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Style Guides: Where Designers and Engineers Meet
Speaker: Brent Miller Lead Software Engineer, New Relic
All too often the designers and engineers on a team are seen as being at odds with each other. It turns out that there's a huge area of overlap, where we all want the same things. The designer wants the button to move down 2 pixels, so it lines up to the baseline correctly. The engineer doesn't want to have to worry about the baseline, and doesn't want to write extra code to make that one button line up. We can all agree on the rules. We can have it all!
This talk looks at how you can build a functional, beautiful style guide that will help you solve many of the long-term site management problems we all have. You will walk away with a concrete understanding of how the style guide looks and behaves in code, along with the semantic and technical underpinnings necessary to make it a feasible goal.