Building Themes in 2016

The Undiscovered Country

No Guidebook

Thought Exercise

Throw out all our old code

JavaScript Based

JSON API

Build Process

NOT ABSTRACT ENOUGH

What should a theme do?

Why do we even want a theme?

What if all our sites looked the same?

Visitors finding Content

Visitors Ingesting Content

It's About Visitors

Visitors are Users

User First

User First Everywhere

Less Functionality, More Presentation

Less Options, More Decisions

Design Matters

Design Really Matters

Developers QA Designers

Take Feedback Liberally, Accept Feedback Critically

Tools

Browser First Design

Browsers Browsers Everywhere

Design is an iterative process

More Libraries

RequireJS?

Browserify?

Less Bootstrap

Typeplate

Atomic Design

Smallest Component

Reusable Components

Wrong Today

Theme Tags are Outdated

Sticky Posts?

Fluid Layout?

Success of 2010

Does Core do Enough for Themes?

Menus Are Awesome

Menus Aren't Perfect

Custom Walkers

Taxonomies Are Awesome

Post Relations meh

Three Solutions to one problem

Post Collections

Collections Evolve.

Collections Are Fluid

Collections Matter

Rule Based

Zone Based

Semi-Fluid Zones

Today !== Tomorrow

Visuals are cyclical

Big Blue Headers will be back

All of this is guessing

Some may happen

Much Won't