Last week I gave a presentation called Design for Developers (view on SlideShare).
I was invited by the Zorros — web application afficionados — to give a two hour workshop about this subject. Then I gave a shorter version of the talk at a Fronteers event.
The goal of Design for Developers is to teach interface design as a set of rules: there are some good default values for a lot of design decisions that you should remember, there is a “scientific” way of approaching things like alignment, even though many designers will tell you it’s something you should “feel”.
View the presentation on SlideShare.
(I have to admit the uploading process and viewing of slides on Speakerdeck is much worse than the ad-ridden SlideShare I complained about.)