Thoughts
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...
Designing for Social Behavior by Sarah Parmenter – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
Jeffrey totally burned her, because the whole Designers who say "since I was 3 this is what I wanted to do...." - that was gonna be my first slide. When she was 3, she was really into 3 things: Singing Drawing Painting She went through such a large amount of paper,...
The Work That Dare Not Speak its Name by Jeffrey Zeldman – Notes from An Event Apart Talk
The real title: Career Advice from a cranky old man He has spent most of his life working. Sometimes it's absolutely wonderful... you feel like you're inventing the future, you're excited, the projects are great, your boss gets you, your colleagues get you......
