{"id":962,"date":"2016-06-05T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T11:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.brighton.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=962"},"modified":"2016-06-14T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:56:45","slug":"the-unbearable-likeness-of-design","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/the-unbearable-likeness-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbearable likeness of design"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2016.brighton.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/sarah-semark\/\">Sarah Semark<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saturday 23rd July 2016<\/li>\n<li>4.30 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why do so many websites look the same? As our tools have improved and we&#8217;ve been able to do more with the web, there&#8217;s been a growing trend toward websites that look exactly alike. Why did this come to be, and what can we, as designers and curators of the modern web, do to avoid it?<\/p>\n<p>In order to answer these questions, we&#8217;ll touch briefly on the history of web design, and examine how modern tools and practises have contributed to a more homogeneous-looking internet. We&#8217;ll examine the web design process from two perspectives \u2013 the designer&#8217;s and the developer&#8217;s \u2013 and discuss how the blurring of those roles impacts the design process. Along the way, we&#8217;ll discuss the various merits of following or bucking trends. Finally, I&#8217;ll offer some constructive advice to help you \u2013 whether you&#8217;re a designer or not \u2013 add an individual touch to your design work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Semark Saturday 23rd July 2016 4.30 pm Why do so many websites look the same? As our tools have improved and we&#8217;ve been able to do more with the web, there&#8217;s been a growing trend toward websites that look exactly alike. Why did this come to be, and what can we, as designers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/the-unbearable-likeness-of-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The unbearable likeness of design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14832409,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1469287800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-962","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"July 23, 2016","time":"4:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14832409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/962\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighton.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}