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Magical UX and the Internet of Things by Josh Clark – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
@globalmoxie There has been a lot of fast change over the last few years especially with mobile Touch has been the first input action that's become mature after 30 years of pretty much a keyboard with a mouse dropped in the middle. This is the first of a number of...
Content Amid Chaos by Sara Wachter-Boettcher – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
The Philadelphia Magic Gardens - a good example of Chaos. There is one thing she doesn't love about Philly - the filth. There's lots of finger pointing as to whose filth is covering Philly. The blame starts to smack of racism and classism. There are PSA's to...
Prototyping and Play by Dave Rupert – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
Today we're going to talk about Making Prototypes... and how to PLAY with prototypes. TOOLS There's about 7 million tools you need to do your job on a daily basis... So we're in a bit of tool overload. "Clicky Image" Prototyping tools Invisionapp.com - prototyping,...
Responsive Images Are Here. Now What? by Jason Grigsby – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
@grigs cloudfour.com gratisography.com We've been clamoring for a solution to responsive image, and now there's a suggested solution to one and we are like "oh my gosh, what have we got?" It is SO complex which is a barrier to adoption. Is it complex? YES! So were...
Smaller Faster Websites by Mat Marquis – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
[email protected] @wilto Chair of the responsive images community group Fought the good fight against the W3C process We're here to learn, and he is hear to teach us all about... furniture. Showed us a picture of a Queen Anne Coffee Table. We don't care about what...
Designing for Crisis by Eric Meyer – Notes From An Event Apart Talk
Summer of 2013 he and his family went to their vacation and their daughter Rebecca became ill and was flown to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (details excluded for respect of privacy) He pulled out his iPhone on his way to the hospital trying to figure out...
So… what do I make? by Dan Mall – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
In the web industry, we are typically categorized by titles, tools, and output. Titles Designer Developer Content Strategist Information Architechts Tools Photoshop Sketch Codepen Omnigraffel Microsoft Word & Excel Output Comps Code Copy Wireframes We silo...
Typesetting Body Text Like a Pirate Jedi with a DeLorean by Tim Brown – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
5 years at Adobe Typekit In charge of Typekit Practice at Adobe We see bad body font all over the web - Arial, at a small size, with long line length. Aspects of type you can use to make type better: Typeface Size Measure Leading (Line Height is Leading plus your Font...
Design Decisions Through the Lens of Performance by Yesenia Perez-Cruz – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
These are my notes from Yesenia Perez-Cruz's talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta, Georgia on February 16, 2015 at 2pm. How are you going to take something and optimize it so it will load quickly on user's devices after it's been designed? Case Study: A site for MTV...
Change or Die – Creating Successful Design Methods for a Multi-Device World by Samantha Warren – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
Has worked for Twitter in the past, now is Independent and working with small startups. We develop habits based on things that happen in their career. Others also pass down their habits to us. We are here because we want to learn new things and be better at what we...
