Fowd Recap

FOWD 2009 Highlights Compressing 8 hours into 25 minutes November 18, 2009

DAVID SENIOR DESIGNER NPR david.wright@me.com WRIGHT @davewrightjr

Dan Cederholm SimpleBits

Progressive enhancements with CSS3 Don’t wait around for all browsers to support new speciﬁcations. Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

EXPERIENCE STYLE MARKUP Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

Highlights 1. Enriching form elements Yahoo is rounding corners on submit buttons 2. RGBA A = Alpha (also awesome?) 3. Drop shadows that don’t hurt Built in support eliminates loads of work Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

Highlights 4. Scaling images on hover Eliminates need for duplicate images (ex: thumbs) 5. Rotation Interesting opportunities for user-feedback 6. Fade effects Reduces need to create separate images Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

“ None of this stuff matters.” IE users: A less polished but not diminished user experience. Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

News? 1. Add some sexy to your standalone Experimental projects are a good starting spot 2. Today’s 10% = Tomorrow’s 40% Hone your style 3. Break up with Flash E ects might help us relax our death grip on Flash Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

Daniel Burka Digg

Feedback Informing Design Listening. Really listening to your users. Daniel Burka: Digg

Don’t oversimplify Feedback can’t simply be grouped into good and bad categories. Daniel Burka: Digg

Know your audience If you’re a big organization, this can be tough. Do it anyway. Daniel Burka: Digg

Feedback: 1. Fans Be cautious 2. Haters Complicated 3. Bug reporters Awesome 4. Experts Free consulting 5. Niche Be cautious 6. Implicit Stats, user-paths Daniel Burka: Digg

Read between the lines Feedback usually indicates problems, not solutions. “I need a faster horse.” Daniel Burka: Digg

Don’t panic Change is frustrating. Daniel Burka: Digg

Elliott Jay Stocks Freelance

Stop Worrying & Get On With It More on CSS3 Elliott Jay Stocks

madebyelephant

atebits

24ways.org

bornliving.com

jasonsantamaria.com

Matthew Smith - Squared Eye

“ Don’t worry if you can’t validate. Many new technologies won’t validate because they’re not in the formal speciﬁcations. Elliott Jay Stocks

Bill Buxton Microsoft

Display Technology & The Future of Web Design On how devices link us to the Web Bill Buxton: Microsoft

“ The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers today. ink browser=paper Bill Buxton: Microsoft

Consider your interactions with paper. We're nowhere near being close to being able to reproduce those interactions with browsers. Bill Buxton: Microsoft

Consistent display in all browsers? Nope. Bill Buxton: Microsoft

Blake Whitman Vimeo

Actively Designing Community Designing the Vimeo Community Blake Whitman: Vimeo

Design for the users you want. A space for creators of original video content. Blake Whitman: Vimeo

Impose the right limits No “most popular” lists No “highest rated” videos Contacts capped at 1,000 Blake Whitman: Vimeo

Lead by example Staff must use the site Design for users, yourselves Blake Whitman: Vimeo

The Long & Short of It A debate about consumption and creation of content in long vs. short form. Panel Debate on Content: Short Form vs. Long Form

The debate produced few answers. Not a shocker. Panel Debate on Content: Short Form vs. Long Form

Why? 1. Form is speciﬁc to content-type 2. How long should a video be? 3. Short form introduces long form 4. Editorial and marketing perspectives are very different Panel Debate on Content: Short Form vs. Long Form

AUTHORITY Is authority inherent in long form? How is authority established in short form? Panel Debate on Content: Short Form vs. Long Form

Molly Holzschlag Opera

HTML 5 Killed XHTML 2 The Mysterious Future of Markup Molly Holzschlag: Opera

HTML 4.01: The last spec Anyone still use this? Molly Holzschlag: Opera

XHTML 1.0 Bridge between HTML and XML Strict code formatting MIME type problems in IE Molly Holzschlag: Opera

XHTML 2 Not backwards compatible Effective only on a closed system Molly Holzschlag: Opera

WHAT Working Group Web Hypertext Applications Technology Development Group Started in 2004 Non draconian error handling Molly Holzschlag: Opera

Highlights 1. Forms 2.0 Required attribute will kick ass, for instance 2. New APIs HTML 5 speciﬁes scripting APIs and OTHERS 3. Existing DOM interfaces are better Javascript will be really helpful here Molly Holzschlag: Opera

Be careful. This spec is still evolving. Molly Holzschlag: Opera

Josh Davis Joshua Davis Studios

Space Creating art with technology Josh Davis: Joshua Davis Studios

“ Play is important.” Josh Davis: Joshua Davis Studios

“ If I’m not making mistakes than I’m not really learning anything.” Josh Davis: Joshua Davis Studios

“ If M.C. Escher were still alive, he’d be a F**kin’ programmer.” Josh Davis: Joshua Davis Studios

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