As web professionals we’re used to hearing about the virtues of shipping fast and iterating regularly in order to meet changing needs, but how do we ensure that the projects that we’re planning now are still as relevant and robust when they launch in the future... and beyond? How do we prepare for the unknowns and constant shifts in technology; what can we do to progress the evolution of the web itself; and how do we, as individuals, ensure that our skills are as relevant as ever in this rapidly changing world?
In this talk we’ll look at past visions of the future, what we can learn from these lessons, and how to apply this in a practical sense to the work that we do.
A written version of this talk is available at: http://www.sallyjenkinson.co.uk/blog/2015/09/26/all-these-moments-will-be-lost-in-time/
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, (R)evolution, 25.09.2015
@sjenkinson | sally@recordssoundthesame.com
the web, the future, and us
15. I worked on a project for SSEaaaaaaaa, ,
looking at digital solution architect , so
that we could do some digital and
something for the next 5 to 10 years.
16.
17. What we plan now may not be
relevant in the future
38. teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop
“
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.
43. a work kit useful for
parceling ideas into their
atomic elements
44.
45.
46. Make It So
“
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.
47. nesta.org.uk
• Imagining Technology
• Better Made Up - The Mutual Influence of
Science Fiction and Innovation
• Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: A
modest defence of futurology
• Quantitative Analysis of Technology
Futures
50. Better consider our users’
changing needs.
Identify opportunities.
Aid prioritisation.
Define what the product is
and what it will be.
More robust decisions -
understand limitations and
benefits of choices.
React quickly/better to
change by embracing
evolution.
Make more exciting things!
60. Discovery & planning
Content first
Separate content
from display
Small to large Prioritisation
Backlog &
roadmap
Problems now & of
the future
Usage patterns,
interactions, behaviour
Embrace wider
trends
Learn from the
past
Don’t be bound
by form
Create a set of high level
principles for the future
gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5
62. Discovery & planning
Content first
Separate content
from display
Small to large Prioritisation
Backlog &
roadmap
gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5
Problems now & of
the future
Usage patterns,
interactions, behaviour
Embrace wider
trends
Learn from the
past
Don’t be bound
by form
Create a set of high level
principles for the future
63. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile
but the traffic jam
!
- Frederik Pohl
64.
65. Doing
Embrace web standards,
semantics, open formats
Responsive design &
progressive enhancement
Create incrementally,
release often
Track & manage
change
Think atomically
Allocate time to improve
the past and the future
Stories and design
thinking (workshops)
Lifespan of project
components
Separation, modularity, loosely-
coupled architectures and services
gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5
Embrace automation Document decisions Prototype & test
66. Evolving
Share your
experiences
Specs & upcoming
technologies
Use your data
Better digital
preservation
Play more
gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5
Watch more sci-fi!