The Psychology of Web Performance

What do the most successful websites and apps have in common? They're all fast. Faster sites have happier users, and those happy users visit longer and spend more. But why is that?

Enjoy a brief history of user experience and web performance, highlighting fascinating research into the neuroscience of speed and studies that connect the dots between site speed and user experience. You'll take away insights into why slow sites enrage you, and why you should prioritise making your own sites and apps as fast as possible for your own users.

A Personal Journey Into Creating an Illustration Style

Based on Guillaume’s personal evolution in illustration and animation, from his beginnings to today, you’ll discover actual creative process as well as some hints and tips on how to learn just what you need to enjoy and explore at your own pace – and finally to create your own, unique style.

Noticing

With over 20 years of experience blending craft, design and technology to make new media, in this talk Joel will share some of the things that he's noticed along the way, including the power of kindness, what finding a practice means, the use of meditation and his journey from working for others, to making a studio, to teaching.

The Moment As A Lost Art

Our hours are scheduled,
Our days are planned,
Our adventures turned to likes,
Our selfies are filtered,
Our memories saved in gigabytes,
instead of sentiment.

Being dedicated, we forget to enjoy and appreciate the Now. With his work, Niels Kiené wants to become aware again of this precious, valuable, and spontaneous time frame.

This motivated him to become a full time artist. Always searching for ways to escape the standards and to get himself more in the moment.

In this presentation, he wants to share 7 of these moments that were, without knowing, important learnings for him as an artist and also as a person.

Exploring Alternative Interactions in JavaScript

As the way we build web applications gets homogenous, web development seems to be losing some of its creativity. Websites often look and function the same way however, the potential of what can be built is ever growing. From new browser capabilities, to JavaScript libraries unlocking the use of tools not initially designed for the web, to entirely new technologies; there’s never been a better time to experiment. In this talk, I want to share what I’ve learned over the past 9 years of building creative side projects exploring alternative interactions in JavaScript.

Synthetic Ecologies