Going from Plumber to Painter:Moving Beyond Function

Thomas “Duffbert” DuffILUG 2008, DublinJune 4 – 6, 2008

If you’re expecting hard-core Notes/Domino information for the next 45 minutes, you have time to find another session now…

There’s a box up here…

Free stuff might be given away…

Might be worth putting your name on a piece of paper and dropping it in…

Really…

I am a plumber.

I need to become a painter.

Color

This is not good…

Of course, this isn’t good either…

Font and Typography

Graphics

Graphics

FREE!

White Space

and

Layout

This?

9.1%

Or This?

(20.1%)

Or this… 61.6% Less is more!

Complex

!=

Effective

User Interaction

Before…

… After

Your fork in the road…

Picture credits

• Blue abstract http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollie-d/113879301/

“OllieD”, Creative Commons

• fun with found plumbing http://www.flickr.com/photos/midlander/138336221/

“you are your atman”, creative commons

• An Artist’s Hand 6 http://www.flickr.com/photos/truelifeimages/1469368564/

Nick C. Carlson by permission

• She’s Colors http://www.flickr.com/photos/eresia/1549968078/

Maddalena Zampitelli by permission

• Black & White Collage Gradient http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebristolkid/232456703/

Thebristolkid, creative commons

• An Extreemly Rare Rainbow Zebra http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestrated1/2037077881/

Creativity+ Timothy K. Hamilton, Creative Commons

• Fonts http://www.flickr.com/photos/hejog/2296300901/

“Peter”, Creative Commons

• Tools of the Trade http://www.flickr.com/photos/orbitgal/2290791702/

OrbitGal, Creative Commons

• down down right left http://www.flickr.com/photos/animaux/467366868/

Animaux, Creative Commons

• Today is the Day That I Happily Refuse to Purchase an iPhone http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/660738574/

“timsamoff”, Creative Commons

• Before_After_969 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahford/7168061/

Andrew Ford by permission

• PGE Park http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris-yunker/2428069205/

ChrisYunker, Creative Commons

• Another fork in the road http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatknot/78427565/

WhatKnot, Creative Commons