1. How I stopped worrying and learned to love
DEFAULTS
Eric Eggert, @yatil
Fronteers 2012 Jam, 03.10.2012
I am Eric Eggert and I’m not talking about accessibility today. I'm talking about defaults and
how they help to improve the workflow.

2. WTF are
DEFAULTS
I think about defaults as decisions that I made befor a decision is even necessary. Compare it
to my iPhone 5 purchase, once I ordered it, the itch to go into a store and buy one reduced.

3. Design principles
For oneself, there are three states of rules: first, there are general design principles, second,
there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal
stuff.

4. Design principles
Conventions
For oneself, there are three states of rules: first, there are general design principles, second,
there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal
stuff.

5. Design principles
Conventions
Defaults
For oneself, there are three states of rules: first, there are general design principles, second,
there are conventions, e.g. In teams, and third there are defaults. They are very personal
stuff.

6. In case of conflict, consider
users over authors over
implementors over specifiers
over theoretical purity.
That's an example of an Design Principle by the w3c: the html5 spec says (read it) yet, in
practice…

7. In case of conflict, consider
implementors.
…we got this! (Read it)
So there are all those technologies around us, we shall use…

8. Boilerplate
PubSubHubub
Bootstrap Wordpress
VanillaJS
Moodboards
Adobe Edge
Drupal
Grunt Personas SVN
Photoshop Mockups
Boilerplate Wireframes Flash
Node CSS Filters CVS
GIT Contao
…WTF? I mean, that's a lot of stuff, that you’d need to learn. And most of this may not even
be applicable to what you do anyways. So I'd like that you stick to your choices more often, it
will improve how effective you are and may just produce good results.

9. Consider Apple. You may hate or love them, but they use that principle and sticked to some
default. The 30 pin connector lasted for a long time, and now, it's time to replace it with the
shiny *lightning* connector.

10. As you can see, it really is tiny, which was a requirement that Apple couldn't see until the
iPhone5. Times changed and needs changed, so Apple changed its dock connector.

11. • Consider your choices carefully
• Stick to your decision, don't be a sissy
• Change as soon as you have to, but as late as
you can
Just want to give you three points on your way before I leave:

12. THX!
@yatil
yatil.net