Flash On The Beach 2011

September 15th, 2011 by Graham Odds

Yesterday I spoke at the Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton as part of the Elevator Pitch session. I think the session went really well, with a great mixture of topics so (hopefully) everyone was suitably entertained.

As previously mentioned, my 3-minute talk was titled How I Learned to Stop Drawing Lines and Love Whitespace. It tries to encourage designers to create more subtle structure in designs, using whitespace, rather than excessive lines and boxes, by understanding the Gestalt Principles. For anyone interested, here are my slides and speil (I believe a video may follow in due course):


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Overall, the whole conference was wonderfully interesting and inspirational. The sessions I particularly enjoyed and people I would recommend checking out are:

Oh, and here’s an image of me looking suitably po-faced, in full flow:

Graham at FOTB2011
Image courtesy of Marc Thiele

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3 Responses to “Flash On The Beach 2011”

  1. So long, and thanks for all the flash « andrewdobson.co.uk says:
    September 15, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    [...] lines. I can think of a few internal design teams that need to see those slides and he has kindly provided them here. Bit101 deserves a mention for a great talk on tools that make tools – that dude gets a pass [...]

  2. Flash On The Beach – 2011 | Brondbjerg Design & Development Blog says:
    October 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    [...] Gestalt Principles in Design – Graham Odds slides on cleaner, better design [...]

  3. Scott Logic » Flash On The Beach says:
    November 2, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    [...] You can read more about Graham’s talk here. [...]

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