Over the month of October, I recapped all 12 conference talks in previous blog posts. Looking back through my notes from each speaker and blogging about my take-aways helped me really organize my thoughts and remember all the great things I learned. The things I heard at the conference fall into one of three categories: […]
An Event Apart: Jared Spool
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Jared Spool spoke about why it’s great time to be an experience designer. Here are my take-aways: Design = The rendering of intent Imitation is: less expensive less risky where design is not valued On the flip side, innovation is: more expensive more risky where design is valued […]
An Event Apart: Mike Monteiro
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Mike Monteiro spoke about how it’s often the designer who’s at fault when the client requests something that makes designers want to role their eyes. The whole talk was full of really awesome quotable bits of advice. So these take-aways are basically all of those quotables: Mike Monteiro […]
An Event Apart: Beyond Play by Joshua Davis
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Joshua Davis shared his thoughts on why work and play should be the same, but for many, they are opposites. Here are my take-aways: Joshua Davis is a generative artist who uses computer code to generate repetitive patterns and designs that are highly detailed and pretty amazing – […]
An Event Apart: Preprocessing is for Everybody
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Chris Coyier shared his thoughts on CSS Preprocessing, specifically SASS. Here are my take-aways: CSS as a language is not as ‘abstracted’ as it could be, and so preprocessing serves to solve this. Preprocessing involves writing variables, mix-ins which are sets of variables, extends, and other short-hand ways […]
An Event Apart: Putting UI’s in Motion
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Val Head shared with us her knowledge of CSS animations. Here are my take-aways: A few animation concepts to remember – all of which are CSS ‘easing’ options: slow in / slow out – gives an organic/natural feel follow through – where object will go past end point […]
An Event Apart: The Long Web
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Jeremy Keith shared his thoughts on new HTML5 features to be using as well as how he likes to build for short and long timescales. Here are my take-aways: Treat navigation as second. On mobile, you can decide to only place navigation at the bottom of your site. […]
An Event Apart: The Mobile Content Mandate
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Karen McGrane shared some interesting facts and statistics on mobile web usage and her thoughts on disruptive innovation. Here are my take-aways from the talk: Some will say, “Why would anyone want to do ____________ on mobile?” It could be something like, do your taxes, apply for a […]
An Event Apart: The map & the territory
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Ethan Marcotte shared his thoughts on how our conversation about enhancing the web incorrectly centers around the map (people from different locations) instead of around the territory (people of similar demographics). Here are my take-aways from the talk: Responsive design consists of three things: a fluid grid, flexible […]
An Event Apart: A write/read (mobile) web
At An Event Apart – Austin 2013, Luke Wroblewski shared his thoughts on how we should be designing for mobile creation. This means – how should we build web forms and interactive websites that take into account the user’s habits/posture when using their device. Here are my take-aways from his talk. The ‘mobile moment’ is […]