One principle of object oriented design that I’ve been wanting to talk about is the single responsibility principle. It’s not an isolated principle, but rather one of five principles grouped under the acronym SOLID. Together these principles aim to help developers create systems that are maintainable and extendable.
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Category: Web Design
Responsive Design Is Always Appropriate
Whenever I hear someone say that responsive design isn’t always appropriate I wonder if they truly understand the reasons for designing responsively or how to actually go about creating a responsive site.
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Responsive Navigation And Flexbox — Some Articles I’ve Written Elsewhere
As if I don’t write enough here, I’ve been writing recently for some other sites you may know and thought I’d share a few articles if you haven’t come across them on your own.
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Can Object Oriented Principles Be Applied To Web Design?
When Nicole Sullivan coined the phrase object oriented css a lot of programmers reacted against it and understandably so. CSS is not an object oriented language. It’s not even a programming language. At the same time I can understand why Nicole chose the name.
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Is Responsive Design Soulless?
It feels like just last week we were defending creativity against some perceived limitation. Well here we are again. This time it’s responsive design that’s become the enemy of creativity. While I could simply point you to last week’s post and ask you to substitute every mention of Photoshop for responsive design, instead I have a few new things to offer.
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