Design Layout

While UX is an important overarching concept always worthy of thinking about, what most of us think of when we hear the word design is user interface design. It’s what our users see and interact with most readily. We’ve seen in previous chapters than HTML is the crux of timeline-item design, and Google gives you a lot to work with.

Although most HTML is valid as a Glass timeline card, to keep a consistent look and feel across Mirror apps, Google provides developer guidelines and suggested UI guidelines, which are a combination of standard HTML and CSS (cascading style sheets).[26] [27]

Column Layouts

In Chapter 5, Tracking Movement and User Responses, we saw one method for creating a two-column layout: by setting a 360-pixel-high ...

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