“Resilient Web Design”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”, said the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. “A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Read the thought-provoking “Resilient Web Design” by Jeremy Keith, online, for free here. We attended a workshop by Jeremy in Hong Kong last week.

This book is a battlecry to those involved in the creation of websites, to take care of the core functionality first through semantic markup, and thereafter feel free to go crazy. Progressive Enhancement. We should not expect websites should to look the same in different environments. The founders of the web never did.