[TFUI] Re: [XP] Agile web design?
Phlip <phlipcpp-/[email protected]>
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Adrian Howard wrote:
> On:
>
<http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/05/25/starting_over.html>
>
> "This design change is my own attempt at an
> excercise in clarity and
> simplicity. I literally yanked the old style sheets
> from Stopdesign,
> and exposed the raw, unstyled HTML. The CSS file I
> started with was
> nothing more than the commented header text I
> usually include at the
> top of each file. It was blank otherwise. I started
> with nothing, and
> slowly added only the rules I found absolutely
> necessary. Nothing
> more."
>
> "I didnt have a very good idea of a direction I
> wanted to take this
> design. I dont normally work like this, preferring
> instead to use a
> refined process that produces more predictable
> results. I only knew I
> wanted to stay simple. Simpler than the previous
> design."
>
> How close the relationship is to software
> development I'm not sure -
> but the above certainly rang some bells.
He did not say the obvious part:
What he did was make a small edit in the CSS, flip
over to a Web browser, and hit <F5>. (At least I hope
he knew <F5> would refresh the page.)
TDD works by rapidly alternating between small code
changes and automated checks. Authoring a user
interface's appearance works by rapidly alternating
between small code changes and visual checks.
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Phlip
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