Presentations

I have given 60+ talks and keynotes in four continents (Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania), speaking on topics like component design, style-guide-driven development, agile, information architecture, CSS, PostCSS, Sass, and responsive design.

— Denver

Making Drupal Core Mobile-Friendly

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

Drupal Eight needs to be mobile-friendly. One of the tasks in the core Mobile Initiative is to bring a quality user experience to the administration interface in line with the expectations set by native applications.

This session covers the challenges, pitfalls, and potential solutions for the initiative, as well as outlining future road maps and how you can get involved.

Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative goals
— Denver

Re-thinking the render/theme layers

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

Drupal 7’s theme layer is powerful, flexible and massively complicated. With the introduction of the Render API into our template files and the double preprocess/process functions, the number of different ways that a piece of content might get rendered has made it difficult for themers to figure out… what the hell is going on at any given moment.

Common complaints of our current system: consistency, consistency, consistency
— Denver

Rethinking Responsive Building Techniques with Drupal

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design” affects us. In this session, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed on ourselves with our current layout building techniques and how to break free from them. Break free from regions. Break free from CSS limitations. Break free from the difficulties inherit in responsive design.

The obvious method: region-based layouts (Stark in Drupal 8)
— Taipei

Mobile Drupal: Building a mobile theme

camp: DrupalCamp Taipei 2011

Responsive design is about to take over how all websites will be built. Learn about how to create websites that respond to all screen sizes in a way that is much simpler to implement than traditional mobile website.

Responsive Design: Single source of HTML, responds to different viewport sizes, first described by Ethan Marcotte's article
— Taipei

Become an IA Superstar

camp: DrupalCamp Taipei 2011

Learn how to slice, sort, expand, and tweak Drupal’s menus in flexible ways to build a usable Information Architecture for your website.

Patterns in IA 資訊架構的樣版模式