| 09:00 | Doors Open // Registration |
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| 11:00 |
Get Your <head> StraightDespite being the only section of a website that a user never sees, the <head> is arguably the most important. It is bound to its own unique set of rules and often governs the overall speed of the page. In this talk, we’ll look at some specific caveats, some fascinating intricacies, and — critically — the optimum order for a faster <head>. Find out why your <head> tags are so messy, so vital, and, I promise you, so interesting. 
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| 11:45 | 30-Minute Refreshment Break |
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VFWTF?Back in 2016, it was announced that OpenType Font Variations, better known as variable fonts, would be added to the OpenType specification. Since then many type designers have created hundreds of variable fonts. The designs have been both experimental and highly functional, testing not only the boundaries of the technology but also improving web performance. Bianca’s presentation will explore the functional and creative possibilities of variable font technology and will illustrate how this area of type design has developed over the past four years. 
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| 13:00 | Lunch Break |
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Pragmatic SketchingYou might have heard the sentence that sketching is all about expressing ideas, not about making art. Right on, but sometimes that’s easier said than done. How do we move away from the artistic approach we have been taught in school (if at all) and actually sketch in a pragmatic way, making quick but clear visuals that support our thinking? Sketching is a decision making process. Good sketches are the results of a series of good choices we make with every mark we put on the paper (or whiteboard). With each stroke we need to answer a series of questions in our mind: How can I draw this? What is the shape? Where should I place my mark? How big should this part be? Which details should I leave out? Where should I start? How do I get the proportions right? How do I make this look clearer? How do I emphasise the important parts? … In her talk Eva-Lotta will share some foundational principles of sketching pragmatically that will help you answer these questions (or at least some of them) with your pen. She’ll share practical tips that will make your sketches clearer – on a formal, structural and conceptual level. And because showing is more powerful than telling, this talk will be drawn live. If you’re curious and courageous you are invited to sketch along straight away to not only see, but also experience what sketching pragmatically is about. 
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| 15:45 | 30-Minute Refreshment Break |
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Attentive Design – Moving from an Exhausting to a Nourishing Digital Media EnvironmentIf we stopped tracking our attention as time spent, and started treating it as a living connection between us and the outside world, could we create a mentally sustainable digital media environment? Do we measure how much we enjoyed going to the beach by the minutes spent in water? No? Then why do we keep using time spent as a success metric to track attention online? The evidence is there: optimising for advertisers and maximising the duration of information consumption damages our mental and emotional well-being. How else could we keep the world wide web running, so it won’t exhaust our cognitive capacities? How could we steer it in a direction that will energise and nourish us? This talk looks at solutions at different scales and timelines and closes with a speculative, visual model to observe, record and show the aspects of our attentional capacities that truly matter. Using it hopefully will bring more flow into all of our lives, and inspire new, emotionally sustainable ideas for our media environment. 
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| 17:00 | 15-Minute Refreshment Break |
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Mut ist, wenn man es trotzdem machtMut ist, wenn man es trotzdem macht – das hat Titus Dittmann immer wieder unter Beweis gestellt. Ein Vortrag, der viele Mut machende Impulse und Learnings bietet. Titus zeigt, was es heißt, sein Ding zu machen, sich nicht reinreden zu lassen, aber auch die Konsequenzen zu tragen, wenn’s mal schiefgeht. Steh immer einmal öfter auf als du hingefallen bist! Das gilt nicht nur beim Skateboarden, sondern auch im Leben, Business oder Beruf. Dabei helfen Skateboarder-Tugenden wie Initiative, Biss, Willensstärke und Ausdauer. Aber auch Selbstbestimmung, Begeisterung und intrinsische Motivation, denn schließlich muss das Herz für eine Sache brennen. Titus sagt: „Im Job, den du liebst, wirst du nie mehr arbeiten müssen. Courage is if you do it anyways – and Titus Dittmann has proven this many times. A talk that offers many encouraging impulses and learnings. Titus shows what it means to do your thing, not to let yourself be talked into it, but also to bear the consequences if things go wrong. Always get up one time more than you fell! This applies not only to skateboarding, but also in life, business or work. Virtues such as initiative, bite, willpower and endurance help a lot. But also self-determination, enthusiasm and intrinsic motivation, because after all the heart has to be on fire for something. Titus says: “In the job you love, you will never have to work again.” (This talk and the conversation, like none of the others, is held in German, but with a live text-translation for our English speaking friends.) 
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| 18:00 | Evening Break |
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The Pandemic Didn’t Kill You. So Now What?During lockdown, Jeff found himself alone in a small Brooklyn apartment. With no work or shows to be had, and no partner, pets or roommates to share time with, there was little reason to get out of bed. Many days, he didn’t. To give himself a sense of schedule and purpose, he began an experiment. He offered his help, free of charge, in 15/30 minute increments to people who mostly wanted creative and professional guidance. He called it Quarantime. After a write-up in FastCo, he received a surge of responses, eventually meeting (virtually) with 60 people from all over the world. This project gave Jeff a peek into the anxieties, challenges, fears, hopes, and goals of many people across a wide swath of creative industries as the pandemic forced them to reevaluate their lives. Jeff shares some of the insights gleaned by talking with so many who were reimagining their place in the world, and what happened when he took his own advice and “doubled down on himself.” 
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| ~20:30 | Get Together and … Nerd Pub QuizLuke from zeroheight brings his infamous Nerd Pub Quiz to beyond tellerand. Design, memes, games, films... no fandom is safe. Come along to form your team, test your knowledge and maybe win a prize or two. |
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