Resilience

Web browsers have become so powerful that developers are now treating them as if they were a runtime environment as predictable as any other. But the truth is that we still need to deal with many unknown factors that torpedo our assumptions. The web is where Postel’s Law meets Murphy’s Law, so we can’t treat web development as if it were just another flavor of software. Instead we must work with the grain of the web. There are tried and tested approaches to building for the web that will result in experiences that are robust, flexible, and resilient.

Designing Meaningful Animation

Motion design has become a necessary skill for designing and building the modern web. The character and energy that motion brings to an interface is becoming as expected on the web as it is in other media. Great web animation comes from thinking like a motion designer and brand steward, matching the motion we add to our message and design goals. Learn key animation principles such as timing, offsets, and secondary action as they apply to interface design decisions—plus motion principles specific to designing animated interactions. Consider this your crash course on becoming a motion design pro!

Your Hero Images Need You! Save the Day with HTTP2 Image Loading

Images form 64% of all website data & have a high correlation to page load time. Optimizing image delivery through compression alone is a daunting task. Using HTTP2's superpowers, we can optimize images to ship faster, increasing the perceived performance and initiating users' emotional responses to visuals earlier. HTTP2-powered image delivery leads to lower bounce rates and higher conversions.

Cracking the Code

Reading a block of code is quite unlike reading a paragraph of text. Text is usually meant to be read, while code is meant to be scanned, parsed, edited, copied, pasted, tested, and debugged. As a result, the typography of programming is a relatively new and different typographic animal.

David will examine a world of typography where letters squeeze and stretch to fit in fixed-width spaces, and where a missing semicolon can be the difference between celebration and catastrophe. He'll review the evolution of monospaced typefaces from typewriters to terminals, review stand-out contemporary monospaced designs, and share his experience creating Input, a superfamily of fonts designed specifically for code. Finally, David will share some thoughts on how we can continue to create richer environments for programming typography.

Bye, Bye Screen

It’ s topical to make fun today of a generation of people, staring at a smartphone whilst nearly every life situation. But this will soon be overtaken by a completely different scenario, when we will - in a manner of speaking - completely move in our smartphone. This will happen, because our living environment turns smart and wishes to communicate with us. It even more reacts to us intuitively and preferably before we by ourselves know that we are shortly going to wish something. Designers have been trained to create visual interfaces. What a fortune for our image-coined brain. What to design if there is only user experience left? Let’s have a look beyond the screen.

How to get the public to fund your daft ideas

If you know Mr. Bingo or eventually had the chance to have him on board of your event already, you know that it is difficult to get a description for his talk. No matter how many millions you offer.

So before even trying this, I'm simply happy to already have a title to his talk and a bio. If you read the bio above, you get a glimpse of what he's going to speak about. If this doesn't help, just trust me: it will be great.