All these moments will be lost in time: the web, the future, and us

1. ALL THESE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME Sally Jenkinson ACE! Conference, Krakow, 25.09.2015 @sjenkinson | sally@recordssoundthesame.com The web, the future, and us

2. @sjenkinson Digital solutions architect & consultant Records Sound the Same Ltd Sally Jenkinson #ACEconf

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5. @sjenkinson#ACEconf The internet of 2021

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10. @sjenkinson#ACEconf What challenges does the future bring?

12. What we plan now may not be relevant in the future @sjenkinson#ACEconf

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14. Our users Our business Technology Wildcards Our project #ACEconf @sjenkinson

15. Disruption will only accelerate Our existing standards, workflows and infrastructure won’t hold up Proprietary solutions will dominate at first The standards process will be painfully slow. #ACEconf @sjenkinson

16. Our choices can become white elephants @sjenkinson#ACEconf

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18. Keeping up vs getting ahead @sjenkinson#ACEconf

19. “It’s all broken!” #ACEconf @sjenkinson

20. “We have to throw it out and start again!” #ACEconf @sjenkinson

21. “…be guaranteed to meet the business and customer needs for the next 5-10 years at least…” #ACEconf @sjenkinson

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24. Keeping up as individuals @sjenkinson#ACEconf

26. @sjenkinson#ACEconf The future is hard!

27. @sjenkinson#ACEconf The future, from the past

31. “Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would of course be awesome (someone please do this), the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment. ! This is where things get tricky.” teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop

32. @sjenkinson#ACEconf Telling stories

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36. a work kit useful for parceling ideas into their atomic elements #ACEconf @sjenkinson

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39. “We’ve seen repeatedly that if an interface works for an audience, there’s something there that will work for users. ! Finding what that thing is and using it for inspiration in our own work is part of how we can use these speculative interfaces.” Make It So (scifiinterfaces.com)

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42. @sjenkinson#ACEconf Using future thinking

43. 1. Better consider our users’ changing needs. 2. Identify opportunities. 3. Aid prioritisation. 4. Deﬁne what the product is and what it will be. 5. More robust decisions - understand limitations and beneﬁts of choices. 6. React quickly/better to change by embracing evolution. 7. Make more exciting things and shape the future of the web! @sjenkinson#ACEconf

44. @sjenkinson#ACEconf The future & our work

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46. User interfaces & interactions Feature-based components & integrations Core digital platform components Core back-end systems @sjenkinson#ACEconf

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49. “Zero UI is … taking us away from screens to a more natural way of interacting with things” Andy Goodman @goodmania

53. @sjenkinson#ACEconf A practical guide to the future

54. Discovery & planning Work content first Separate content from display to better cater for new outputs (visual or otherwise) Where screens are involved, remember to think from very small to very large Prioritise your requirements Create a backlog and strategic roadmap & make these visible Balance problems now & of the future Consider future usage patterns, interactions, and behaviour Embrace wider trends (remote teams etc) Learn from the past Don’t be bound by form Create a set of high level principles for the future @sjenkinson#ACEconf Make no assumptions about usage Stories and design thinking (workshops)

55. Example principles #ACEconf @sjenkinson

56. “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam” Frederik Pohl @sjenkinson#ACEconf

57. Embrace web standards, semantics, open formats Progressive enhancement Create incrementally, release often Track & manage change Think atomically Allocate time to improve the past and the future Lifespan of project components Separation, modularity, loosely-coupled architectures and services Embrace automation Document decisions (not heavily, but ensure the past is captured for future learning) Prototype & test Doing @sjenkinson#ACEconf Responsive design Leave space for the future Draw a line - what do you support? Why?

58. Share your experiences Specs & upcoming technologies Measure, & use your data Better digital preservation Play more Take inspiration from the world (watch more sci- fi!) Evolving @sjenkinson#ACEconf Accept change. It doesn’t mean you failed Work to educate others, to facilitate improvements Fix problems that you can see, and those that might be Provide support (bleeding edge technology users often have it rough)

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63. “Don’t plan for the future because there is no future - just now and a series of next nows.” Jon Gold @jongold

64. @sjenkinson sally@recordssoundthesame.com recordssoundthesame.com Thank you! ﬂickr.com/photos/s-t-r-a-n-g-e/8292748067 ﬂickr.com/photos/huangjiahui/2893120846 Trivia: my slides are mainly blue because according to Make It So, blue is the most prevalent colour in sci-fi interfaces #ACEconf