Google I/O 2014 recap for web developers

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The Google IO 2014 conference was held on 25th and 26th June. This year there was quite a lot on offer for web developers. In this deck I collect some videos you that cover research findings on mobile web usability, google’s new unified design philosophy (Material design), a library called Polymer to help make developing web components easier and last but not least why you should be using HTTPS everywhere. We take a look at: Design principles for a modern web. Material design; Google’s new visual language used across all new products going forward. Why Google thinks web components are the future of the web

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A recap for web developers

Google

I/O 2014

Web Fundamentals: Best practices for modern web development.

Google ran a usability study spanning 100 sites and held 119 in-person, one-hour usability

sessions with Android and iOS smartphone users.

This resulted in 22 Principles in 5 categories

Home and navigation

Site search

Form entry

Commerce and conversions

Site wide considerations

Material Design: A visual language for the modern web.

Material design is Google’s new visual language used across all new products going forward.

The principles of material design can be summarised as

Material is the metaphor

The fundamentals of light, surface, and movement are key to conveying how objects move, interact,

and exist in space in relation to each other.

Bold, graphic, intentional

Deliberate color choices, edge-to-edge imagery, large-scale typography, and intentional white

space create a bold and graphic interface that immerses the user in the experience.

Motion provides meaning

Motion is meaningful and appropriate, serving to focus attention and maintain continuity.

Feedback is subtle yet clear. Transitions are efficient yet coherent

Material Design

Principles

Applied Material Design

How to apply material design to your app

Polymer: A web components library

Web Components

a game changer

Web components are a new W3C draft spec that allows developers to develop custom tags and describe how they should act and render

in the browser.

Polymer and the Web Components

revolution

The polymer project is a library developed by google to make developing web components

easier

HTTPS Everywhere: Why we should be using HTTPS for everything