presented at FITC Toronto 2018
More info at http://fitc.ca/event/to18/
Sara Simon, The New York Times, Interactive News
Overview
As technologists, we rely on a belief in rules and systems. We mold our work to fit between constraints. We operate under a set of defined assumptions. This is a story of assumptions upside down.
This talk explores our common understanding of the algorithm. It’s a talk about how we talk about algorithms, and, more importantly, it’s a talk about the effects of this narrative.
Objective
The goal of this talk is to challenge the idea of the algorithm as something that’s mysterious, ambiguous, immutable and existing without human involvement.
Target Audience
This not a technical talk, though the audience should have a familiarity with technical topics.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
A little computer science history
A not-too-technical dive into the mechanics of algorithms
The importance of planning ahead
The importance of learning to improvise
The need to make interdisciplinary connections
Researchers, Discovery and the Internet: What Next?David Smith
A web2.0 issues and implications overview I put together for the Research Information Network as part of their workshop on researchers and discovery services.
http://www.rin.ac.uk/discovery-services-workshop
The aspirational visions of Society 5.0 coined by many nations around 2015/16 have now been eclipsed by technological progress and world events including another European war, global warming, climate change and resource shortages. In this new context, the published 5.0 documents now seem naive and simplistic, high on aspiration, and very short on ‘the how’. The stark reality is that the present situation has been induced by our species and our inability to understand and cope with complexity.
“There are no simple solutions to complex problems”
What is now clear is that our route to survival and Society 5.0 will be born of Industry 4.0/5.0 and a symbiosis between Mother Nature, Machines, and Mankind. Today we consume and destroy near 50% more resources than the planet might reasonably support, and merely improving the efficiency of all our processes and what we do will only delay the end point. And so I4.0 is founded on new materials and new processes that are far less damaging, inherently sustainable, and most importantly, readily dispensable across the planet.
“Reversing global warming will not see a climatic reversal to some previously stable state”
In this presentation, we start with the nature of climate change, move on to the technology changes that might save the day, the impact of Industry 4.0/5.0, and then postulate what Society 5.0 might actually look like.
Researchers, Discovery and the Internet: What Next?David Smith
A web2.0 issues and implications overview I put together for the Research Information Network as part of their workshop on researchers and discovery services.
http://www.rin.ac.uk/discovery-services-workshop
The aspirational visions of Society 5.0 coined by many nations around 2015/16 have now been eclipsed by technological progress and world events including another European war, global warming, climate change and resource shortages. In this new context, the published 5.0 documents now seem naive and simplistic, high on aspiration, and very short on ‘the how’. The stark reality is that the present situation has been induced by our species and our inability to understand and cope with complexity.
“There are no simple solutions to complex problems”
What is now clear is that our route to survival and Society 5.0 will be born of Industry 4.0/5.0 and a symbiosis between Mother Nature, Machines, and Mankind. Today we consume and destroy near 50% more resources than the planet might reasonably support, and merely improving the efficiency of all our processes and what we do will only delay the end point. And so I4.0 is founded on new materials and new processes that are far less damaging, inherently sustainable, and most importantly, readily dispensable across the planet.
“Reversing global warming will not see a climatic reversal to some previously stable state”
In this presentation, we start with the nature of climate change, move on to the technology changes that might save the day, the impact of Industry 4.0/5.0, and then postulate what Society 5.0 might actually look like.
4Developers 2015: Your role in the next release of "World" project! - Milen D...PROIDEA
Speaker: Milen Dyankov
Language: English
Think the never ending project you company got you working on is boring and there is nothing you can do about it? Think again! You just recently (the day you were born) joined the "World" project! It has been around for billions of years and it's still improving! And guess what, you (as software developer) are extremely lucky because a new major release is being worked out and it's heavily based on ... software! So it's time to get excited and think about your role! Do you understand the project road map? Will you contribute? Will you join a team or work on your own? Will you learn or teach others? Will you lead or follow? Will you design or implement features? And last but not least, is it really only about software?
4Developers: http://4developers.org.pl/pl/
Moved to https://slidr.io/azzazzel/your-role-in-the-next-release-of-world-pro...Milen Dyankov
This slide deck will be removed from here in the future. It has been moved to : https://slidr.io/azzazzel/your-role-in-the-next-release-of-world-project
Pragmatic Designer's Guide to Identity on the WebJamie Reffell
This talk was presented at Webvisions 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
When you're designing for the web, you have to think about identity. This includes the nuts and bolts of login fields and passwords, as well as fancy technologies like Facebook Connect, OAuth, and OpenID.
This talk presents a pragmatic approach to identity on the web, focused on best practices and a reality-based understanding of user behavior.
I'll cover:
* How users really handle accounts and passwords, and what that means for your site.
* Best practices for login/logout.
* Shared accounts, shared computers, and other messy realities.
* What designers needs to know about OpenID, OAuth, Facebook Connect, and other identity platforms.
* What might happen next: future-proofing your design without a crystal ball.
Scaling Saved Searches at eBay KleinanzeigenAndre Charton
Ebay Kleinanzeigen is one of the most visited sites in Germany and still grows at an amazing speed. Currently, we have about 19 million ads and over 18 million unique visitors each month. One of our most popular features are saved searches: When on a search result page, users can register for push notifications in case of new matching ads being posted. Introduced in summer last year, we are now close to 5 million saved searches in our database, with the number steadily growing.
Essay On Harlem Renaissance. What was the Harlem Renaissance? - Free Essay Ex...Bobbi Antonacci
Harlem Renaissance and The Jazz Movement - Free Essay Example .... The Harlem Renaissance Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... Important Men and Women of the Harlem Renaissance Movement .... Harlem Renaissance Writers and Themes Independent Essay Project | TpT. Harlem Renaissance Writers and Themes Independent Essay Project .... Harlem Renaissance. Harlem renaissance langston hughes essay salvation. ⇉The Harlem Renaissance Essay Essay Example | GraduateWay. The Harlem Renaissance Essay - Free Essay Example - 809 Words .... Writers and Artists Who Influenced the Harlem Renaissance - Free Essay ....
How to Improve English Listening Skills Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. En Us Listening Skills Essay : Active Listening Skills, Examples and .... Emergent Literacy: All About Listening Skills - Rae Pica. Listening Skills - Lecture notes 3 - LISTENING SKILLS Listening is the .... Listening Skills Essay. Essay On Importance Of Effective Listening, HD Png Download - kindpng. Listening essay - dissertationguides.web.fc2.com. Listening Assignment Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... The Importance of Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills Free Essay Example. Listening as the Most Used Communication Skill Essay Example | Topics .... Essay listening is learning / mycorezone.com. Active Listening Essay | Teachers | Classroom Management. Listening skills essay. All About Listening Skills - frudgereport294.web.fc2.com. Listening Note-Taking methods / strategies - Academic English UK. How to Teach Listening Skills: Best Practices Essay About Life, Life .... The Significance of Listening Comprehension in Language Learning Free .... Listening Skills and Listening Process Essay Example | Topics and Well .... Children's Listening Skills Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Essay about active listening images. Importance of Listening Skills Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Define Listening Skills and its Types | What are the 8 barriers to .... Listening skills article (1). 4 Major types of essays - Infographics. Reflective Essay On Listening Skills – Telegraph. Active listening with speaking 3 scripts - bdabell. Essay on active listening skills - illustrationessays.web.fc2.com. Listening skills(teaching of listening). ≫ Importance of Listening Skills in Language Learning Free Essay Sample .... Developing Listening and Speaking Skills Essay Example | Topics and .... En Us Listening Skills Essay — You are here. Listening skills - mavenpoliz Listening Skills Essay
Unlocking the Potential: Data as a Medium for Design & JusticeJess Freaner
As a designer and data scientist, I work with data in service of meeting people’s needs. This data is inherently subjective, which is what makes it both an excellent medium for design and vulnerable to misuse. I’ll share what it means to design with data and how data science can contribute to and augment the design process. Once we see what’s exciting and newly possible, we’ll delve into why now, more than ever, human-centered design matters as we discuss ethics and the impact of AI designs on individuals, communities, and societies.
Talk given by Jess Freaner (IDEO) at UX Strategy Meetup in Chicago - November 2019
From Hard Science to Baseless Opinions - OredevAli Kheyrollahi
From the mathematicians and scientists of the 20th centuries to today's ninja craftsmen/craftswomen, Software community has lost something along the way. Instead of carefully observing scientific methods and maintaining objectivity, we have tangled ourselves in web of hype and celebrity culture - as if adopting today's YOLO motto. We have completely forgot how to reason scientifically about matters of technical dispute, instead, whoever is more opinionated or shouts louder wins - as if software is an abstract art where you can only form an opinion.
This talk is a critique of the status quo. With a survey of the history of modern culture, we will try to find the origin of our mindset which is very much rooted in the postmodern thought. Then we review the steps we have taken wrong and at the end, we exemplify the techniques of formal/scientific reasoning. A sobering talk yet not without sprinkles of fun and sense of humour...
If you have always felt something is wrong... here is the red pill for you...
ElectroSmog SkillShare: Tools and Models for Online CollaborationEyebeam
Eyebeam participated in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival, which takes place simultaneously at many locations around the world, introduces and explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners' home bases.
Varun Vachhar
rangle.io
Overview
JavaScript frameworks allow us to build innovative and delightful experiences for our users. A common approach adopted with these modern tools is to combine all required JavaScript into one large bundle. Therefore, causing the loading performance to suffer. Especially on older devices or devices with low memory and processing power.
An alternative approach is to split your code into various smaller chunks which you can then be loaded on demand — allowing you to reduce the load time drastically.
In this session, Varun will demonstrate how you can adopt the practice of code-splitting when building applications with frameworks such as React and Vue.
Objective
Learn how to use code-splitting to improve the loading performance of Javascript heavy applications.
Target Audience
Front-end developers who build JavaScript heavy applications
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Basic understanding of web development and some familiarity with frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
Level
Intermediate
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
What is code-splitting?
Different types of code-splitting
How to split a React or Vue application
How to “lazy-load” parts of the application
Removing duplicate code from chunksa
Presented at Web Unleashed 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Andréa Crofts
League
Overview
Examining our responsibility as creators to design for disconnection.
The “restore connection” alert isn’t just for devices– it applies to people too. And it’s more important now than ever before.
Digital creators, we need to talk. The rise in mental health as a result of situational stress is a prevailing theme in today’s society, and some of the products we’re building are the root cause. But we have the power to change this. As creators of digital products, how might we enable our users to be more present in their lives? How might we invest in features like Instagram’s activity timer, despite the fact that they’re fundamentally counterintuitive to the usage metrics most behemoth tech companies are driving towards?
We have a responsibility as creators of digital products to enable others to disconnect …and re-connect with themselves, physically and mentally. This intersection is an emerging category Andrea likes to call digital health, and it’s something we can create together.
Objective
To share actionable strategies, principles and considerations for designing with digital health top of mind. Andrea will get into some #realtalk about how we can collectively create more balance and presence for the humans using our products.
Target Audience
Designers and digital creators of all kinds – especially those building digital products at scale!
Level
Open to audience members of any skill level (this is a more high-level talk)
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Tips and best-in-class examples of designing for digital health
Design guidelines and principles for designing with digital health in mind
Evidence-based practices to ground your future design decisions
Strategies for re-framing the success metrics of digital products
Design ethics resources
4Developers 2015: Your role in the next release of "World" project! - Milen D...PROIDEA
Speaker: Milen Dyankov
Language: English
Think the never ending project you company got you working on is boring and there is nothing you can do about it? Think again! You just recently (the day you were born) joined the "World" project! It has been around for billions of years and it's still improving! And guess what, you (as software developer) are extremely lucky because a new major release is being worked out and it's heavily based on ... software! So it's time to get excited and think about your role! Do you understand the project road map? Will you contribute? Will you join a team or work on your own? Will you learn or teach others? Will you lead or follow? Will you design or implement features? And last but not least, is it really only about software?
4Developers: http://4developers.org.pl/pl/
Moved to https://slidr.io/azzazzel/your-role-in-the-next-release-of-world-pro...Milen Dyankov
This slide deck will be removed from here in the future. It has been moved to : https://slidr.io/azzazzel/your-role-in-the-next-release-of-world-project
Pragmatic Designer's Guide to Identity on the WebJamie Reffell
This talk was presented at Webvisions 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
When you're designing for the web, you have to think about identity. This includes the nuts and bolts of login fields and passwords, as well as fancy technologies like Facebook Connect, OAuth, and OpenID.
This talk presents a pragmatic approach to identity on the web, focused on best practices and a reality-based understanding of user behavior.
I'll cover:
* How users really handle accounts and passwords, and what that means for your site.
* Best practices for login/logout.
* Shared accounts, shared computers, and other messy realities.
* What designers needs to know about OpenID, OAuth, Facebook Connect, and other identity platforms.
* What might happen next: future-proofing your design without a crystal ball.
Scaling Saved Searches at eBay KleinanzeigenAndre Charton
Ebay Kleinanzeigen is one of the most visited sites in Germany and still grows at an amazing speed. Currently, we have about 19 million ads and over 18 million unique visitors each month. One of our most popular features are saved searches: When on a search result page, users can register for push notifications in case of new matching ads being posted. Introduced in summer last year, we are now close to 5 million saved searches in our database, with the number steadily growing.
Essay On Harlem Renaissance. What was the Harlem Renaissance? - Free Essay Ex...Bobbi Antonacci
Harlem Renaissance and The Jazz Movement - Free Essay Example .... The Harlem Renaissance Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... Important Men and Women of the Harlem Renaissance Movement .... Harlem Renaissance Writers and Themes Independent Essay Project | TpT. Harlem Renaissance Writers and Themes Independent Essay Project .... Harlem Renaissance. Harlem renaissance langston hughes essay salvation. ⇉The Harlem Renaissance Essay Essay Example | GraduateWay. The Harlem Renaissance Essay - Free Essay Example - 809 Words .... Writers and Artists Who Influenced the Harlem Renaissance - Free Essay ....
How to Improve English Listening Skills Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. En Us Listening Skills Essay : Active Listening Skills, Examples and .... Emergent Literacy: All About Listening Skills - Rae Pica. Listening Skills - Lecture notes 3 - LISTENING SKILLS Listening is the .... Listening Skills Essay. Essay On Importance Of Effective Listening, HD Png Download - kindpng. Listening essay - dissertationguides.web.fc2.com. Listening Assignment Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... The Importance of Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills Free Essay Example. Listening as the Most Used Communication Skill Essay Example | Topics .... Essay listening is learning / mycorezone.com. Active Listening Essay | Teachers | Classroom Management. Listening skills essay. All About Listening Skills - frudgereport294.web.fc2.com. Listening Note-Taking methods / strategies - Academic English UK. How to Teach Listening Skills: Best Practices Essay About Life, Life .... The Significance of Listening Comprehension in Language Learning Free .... Listening Skills and Listening Process Essay Example | Topics and Well .... Children's Listening Skills Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Essay about active listening images. Importance of Listening Skills Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Define Listening Skills and its Types | What are the 8 barriers to .... Listening skills article (1). 4 Major types of essays - Infographics. Reflective Essay On Listening Skills – Telegraph. Active listening with speaking 3 scripts - bdabell. Essay on active listening skills - illustrationessays.web.fc2.com. Listening skills(teaching of listening). ≫ Importance of Listening Skills in Language Learning Free Essay Sample .... Developing Listening and Speaking Skills Essay Example | Topics and .... En Us Listening Skills Essay — You are here. Listening skills - mavenpoliz Listening Skills Essay
Unlocking the Potential: Data as a Medium for Design & JusticeJess Freaner
As a designer and data scientist, I work with data in service of meeting people’s needs. This data is inherently subjective, which is what makes it both an excellent medium for design and vulnerable to misuse. I’ll share what it means to design with data and how data science can contribute to and augment the design process. Once we see what’s exciting and newly possible, we’ll delve into why now, more than ever, human-centered design matters as we discuss ethics and the impact of AI designs on individuals, communities, and societies.
Talk given by Jess Freaner (IDEO) at UX Strategy Meetup in Chicago - November 2019
From Hard Science to Baseless Opinions - OredevAli Kheyrollahi
From the mathematicians and scientists of the 20th centuries to today's ninja craftsmen/craftswomen, Software community has lost something along the way. Instead of carefully observing scientific methods and maintaining objectivity, we have tangled ourselves in web of hype and celebrity culture - as if adopting today's YOLO motto. We have completely forgot how to reason scientifically about matters of technical dispute, instead, whoever is more opinionated or shouts louder wins - as if software is an abstract art where you can only form an opinion.
This talk is a critique of the status quo. With a survey of the history of modern culture, we will try to find the origin of our mindset which is very much rooted in the postmodern thought. Then we review the steps we have taken wrong and at the end, we exemplify the techniques of formal/scientific reasoning. A sobering talk yet not without sprinkles of fun and sense of humour...
If you have always felt something is wrong... here is the red pill for you...
ElectroSmog SkillShare: Tools and Models for Online CollaborationEyebeam
Eyebeam participated in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival, which takes place simultaneously at many locations around the world, introduces and explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners' home bases.
Varun Vachhar
rangle.io
Overview
JavaScript frameworks allow us to build innovative and delightful experiences for our users. A common approach adopted with these modern tools is to combine all required JavaScript into one large bundle. Therefore, causing the loading performance to suffer. Especially on older devices or devices with low memory and processing power.
An alternative approach is to split your code into various smaller chunks which you can then be loaded on demand — allowing you to reduce the load time drastically.
In this session, Varun will demonstrate how you can adopt the practice of code-splitting when building applications with frameworks such as React and Vue.
Objective
Learn how to use code-splitting to improve the loading performance of Javascript heavy applications.
Target Audience
Front-end developers who build JavaScript heavy applications
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Basic understanding of web development and some familiarity with frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
Level
Intermediate
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
What is code-splitting?
Different types of code-splitting
How to split a React or Vue application
How to “lazy-load” parts of the application
Removing duplicate code from chunksa
Presented at Web Unleashed 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Andréa Crofts
League
Overview
Examining our responsibility as creators to design for disconnection.
The “restore connection” alert isn’t just for devices– it applies to people too. And it’s more important now than ever before.
Digital creators, we need to talk. The rise in mental health as a result of situational stress is a prevailing theme in today’s society, and some of the products we’re building are the root cause. But we have the power to change this. As creators of digital products, how might we enable our users to be more present in their lives? How might we invest in features like Instagram’s activity timer, despite the fact that they’re fundamentally counterintuitive to the usage metrics most behemoth tech companies are driving towards?
We have a responsibility as creators of digital products to enable others to disconnect …and re-connect with themselves, physically and mentally. This intersection is an emerging category Andrea likes to call digital health, and it’s something we can create together.
Objective
To share actionable strategies, principles and considerations for designing with digital health top of mind. Andrea will get into some #realtalk about how we can collectively create more balance and presence for the humans using our products.
Target Audience
Designers and digital creators of all kinds – especially those building digital products at scale!
Level
Open to audience members of any skill level (this is a more high-level talk)
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Tips and best-in-class examples of designing for digital health
Design guidelines and principles for designing with digital health in mind
Evidence-based practices to ground your future design decisions
Strategies for re-framing the success metrics of digital products
Design ethics resources
Presented at Web Unleashed 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Luke DeWitt
REDspace
Overview
JavaScript’s popularity has exploded over the last decade, taking it from a laughable scripting language to one that powers much of the web today. Because it’s so flexible and so easy to learn, it’s extremely popular with new developers looking to cut their teeth in programming. However, these strengths are also weaknesses, as it’s incredibly easy to write bad JavaScript without even knowing it.
A lot of these newer developers jump from “Hello, World!”, to TodoMVC in order to find the library that makes their life easier. By doing this, they skip over some of the important details of not only how JavaScript works, but also how to optimize its performance to ensure the best user experience.
The Chrome profiler is a very handy tool that not a lot of developers have experience with. In this talk, we’ll take a beginner’s look at the profiler tool and examine how to use it to best improve your web application, and identify bottlenecks in your code without having to rely only on console.log statements.
Objective
To help developers understand how to better make use of the JavaScript profiler.
Target Audience
Any JavaScript developers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Basic JavaScript
Level
Beginner / intermediate
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Javascript inner-workings
Profiling concepts
Identifying bottlenecks
Profiling node applications
Tooling
presented at Web Unleashed 2019
For more info see https://fitc.ca/event/webu19/
Kevin Daly RBC Ventures
Every developer has faced the difficult choice of deciding what tech stack they should use for a new project. Should you use the latest tech or something that everyone knows? Which framework is the best for your team? To survive your tech stack, developers must make trade-offs with developing on new tech stacks and the ability to maintain and scale their applications.
In this presentation, you’ll learn how to evaluate your tech stack and understand the pros and cons of using bleeding edge technology. Using his past experiences, Kevin will also share his lessons learned and how his team tackles managing their tech stack today.
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Bushra Mahmood
Unity Technologies
Overview
In this talk, Bushra Mahmood will explain how to articulate and pitch augmented reality as a viable medium to help solve problems. Learn about what makes an AR application come together on both mobile devices and headsets. Uncover different tools and methodologies for problem-solving and making a compelling story.
By properly understanding this technology and its parts, creatives can take an active role in shaping and defining this new space in computing.
Objective
Learn the tools and techniques required to pitch an augmented reality project.
Target Audience
Designers, product managers, product stakeholders.
Assumed Audience Knowledge
An understanding of product design and an awareness of AR
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
The right language to use when explaining ‘spatial’ design
The different requirements and considerations for scoping an AR project
The tools that are currently available for AR authoring
Insights into what the near and far future will hold for this medium.
An example of an AR application pitch
Start by Understanding the Problem, Not by Delivering the AnswerFITC
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Karri Ojanen
RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Overview
Over the past number of years companies have adopted the idea of customer-centricity. People across functions can fluently talk about the importance of paying special attention to end-user needs and overall customer experience.
But innovation and forward-thinking ideas that connect both customer and business needs can’t simply be squeezed out of brainstorm sessions and sticky notes if the organization doesn’t learn how to effectively look outside of its own silos. In this session, Karri will show how to move from jumping to solutions to driving innovation by understanding the question first.
Target Audience
Designers, researchers, strategists, product managers, and technology leads
Three Things Audience Members Will Learn
Methodologies and tools to form insights out of a holistic understanding of customer challenges
How to synthesize data to form a vision of the better future
How to break the vision into manageable chunks that drive value for the business and the customer at every launch
Cocaine to Carrots: The Art of Telling Someone Else’s StoryFITC
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Alan Williams
Imaginary Forces
Overview
During dailies as an intern at Imaginary Forces, Alan’s director, Karin Fong, would follow her animation feedback with one of the scariest and empowering questions of his career, “what do you think?” Over the last eight years, Alan’s transition from technician to creative director came from a dramatic shift in how he approached and answered that question. By examining larger conceptual principles to practical application in commercial and tv/film design, such as HBO’s Vinyl and Netflix’s Anne with an E, he will share hard-learned lessons that can empower you, whether in Photoshop, behind a camera, or pitching to clients, in developing and selling your creative voice.
Target Audience
Visual communicators eager to become more evocative storytellers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
‘Method branding’ in a selfie culture
O.C.D. (observe, collect, dissect) & the imagination
The resuscitating power of rearrangement
Pertinence vs pipeline: the crippling cage of routine
Less pitching, more poetry
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Carl Sziebert
Google
Overview
Innovation is defined as the process of making an idea into a good or service that creates value by meeting a need or solving a problem at scale. This talk explores ways to find inspiration from everyday sources, invest in skills that foster collaboration, and identify opportunities for impact. While leveraging the core principles of and learnings from designing products for real people, Carl will examine a number methods for building creativity and innovation into our everyday work.
Target Audience
For individual contributors looking to cultivate opportunities for impact and find the right time, space, and tools to innovate in our everyday work.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
A bottom-up approach to framing innovation within your daily work
Identify and validate opportunities that make an impact
Prioritize, prototype, and build understanding of the problems you are solving
Collaborate locally and globally
Seek, give, and apply feedback often
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Chris Zacharias
imgix
Overview
The average website loads over 1.5MBs of content per page, making over 75 requests. Many popular websites are serving over 5MBs just to load their homepages. And these numbers represent measurements taken AFTER compression is applied. The full weight of many popular websites is pushing 20+ MBs these days. In an era where performance truly matters to the end user experience, web developers need techniques to help curtail this bloat in data down the wire.
No matter how well you optimize, there is no better way to than to delete things you do not need. How does one determine what is essential to the user experience and what is not? One answer Chris posits is to develop a hyper-lightweight version of your website which will provide critical insights into your specific performance priorities. This is a process that he has leveraged on many projects, in particular at YouTube to reduce the size of the video watch page from 1.5MBs to 100KBs. In this talk, Chris will take real-world web pages and show techniques for dramatically reducing their page weight and for identifying areas to optimize, while outlining the key steps to doing this well.
Objective
Learn a process for building a hyper-lightweight version of your website for establishing reasonable performance budgets, grounded in reality, to work from.
Target Audience
Web developers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
HTML, CSS, Javascript, some server-side awareness.
Level
Intermediate
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to analyze a web page for performance issues
A holistic approach to deconstructing an existing website
A clear process for building a hyper-lightweight version of your website
Translating your findings into real performance priorities
Establishing a realistic performance budget
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Michael Fullman
VT Pro Design
Overview
An exploration of the process of creation. We live in a time where technology and inspiration are more readily available and accessible than ever before. That being said we also live in a time that mostly highlights the successes of projects and process. In this particular talk Michael wants to touch on the process of creation with technology at VT Pro, to further explore a full circle approach to inspiration and creation where often times our next project is inspired by something learned in the process of creating something else.
By exploring what went wrong and what went right in a number of different projects he’s created, Michael will touch on points where inspiration can be found in this world of seemingly endless technology; the importance of collaboration; what can be learned from the moments that don’t necessarily go as planned; and how often projects come close to failure than the audience ever knows. Lastly he wants to touch on the process of finding personal inspiration to inspire an audience, and the momentum to push further that comes from their energy.
Objective
Things often don’t go as planned, but often that’s the fun part.
Target Audience
Creative technologists and experience designers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Collaborative process
Giving personality to a piece of technology
How to learn from the unexpected
We all start somewhere (the journey is just as important as the destination)
Everything is possible now
Post-Earth Visions: Designing for Space and the Future HumanFITC
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Sands Fish
MIT Media Lab
Overview
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during their relatively short stays, they are provided with minimum supplies to remain alive and able to perform experiments. As we begin to plan less for short visits and more for life in space (such as a six to eight month trip to Mars and beyond) the question becomes: What does human culture look like in space?
This talk will explore how human culture, design, and creativity might evolve as we begin to live in space, and the unique environmental conditions that might guide us in certain directions, just as the environment on Earth has. It will discuss space tourism, living in zero gravity, and some experiments in art and design that hint at future aesthetics.
Objective
Convey what opportunities exist at the outset of a more democratized New Space age, and call out the aesthetics, ethics, and cultural frontiers we find ourselves faced with at the end of the second decade of this century.
Target Audience
Those interested in the future of human life in space
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
The history of human culture in space
Unique design constraints and considerations when designing for zero gravity
The experience of flying in a zero-g flight
The aesthetics at play in human spacefaring — (what has been)
New forms, new materials, new ideas — (what might be)
The Rise of the Creative Social Influencer (and How to Become One)FITC
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Lindsay Munro
Adobe XD
Overview
Your social network could be more valuable than the work you’re doing today, because it could (and should) lead to the opportunities you get tomorrow. Your next post could result in your next recommendation, job, collaboration, exhibit, and next level experience.
In this session, you’ll learn how to hone and build your online social media presence to attract brands and engage in the modern-day endorsement deal. Get a behind-the-scenes perspective on the things brands look for in creative profiles and the rules of engagement.
Objective
Teach the ins and outs of what it means to be a creative social influencer.
Target Audience
Creatives looking to up level their social media presence and strike brand partnerships.
Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to set yourself up for “success” on social media
The importance of working with the right brands
Figuring out compensation and negotiating contracts
The ins and outs of disclosure and liability
How to not mess it up
Presented at FITC Toronto 2019
More info at www.fitc.ca/toronto
Amelie Rosser
Jam3
Overview
For the past two years Jam3 worked alongside Joy Kogawa and the NFB to create East of the Rockies, an augmented reality storytelling experience.
East of the Rockies is the first interactive AR game of its kind. The story takes users through a piece of Canadian history where Japanese Canadians were forced to leave their homes and live at internment camps during WWII.
This talk will cover the creation of the game: from concept and storyboarding, to the development process in Unity and various challenges and questions to consider from a creator’s perspective.
Objective
To let the audience in on the behind the scenes of developing an AR experience like East of the Rockies.
Target Audience
For those interested in Augmented Reality storytelling and game development.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
AR techniques using Unity
Storytelling in AR
Prototyping interactions in AR
Game state management using Unidux
Game optimization techniques in Unity
The Knowledge Society: Three Talks About the Future
Futurism Innovation Science
Isabella Grandic
The Knowledge Society
Overview
Join three incredible, young, and brilliant minds as they present their findings on topics that we’ll all have to deal with in the not so distant future. This series of talks will explore how exponential technologies like synthetic farming, nanotechnology, and quantum computing can be used to solve some of the world’s most difficult problems.
The speakers are all students of The Knowledge Society (TKS), a human accelerator for high school students designed to help them impact billions. TKS encourages students to take risks and think big.
Ayaan Esmail‘s talk will cover creating a proactive healthcare system
World Transformation: The Secret Agenda of Product DesignFITC
R.C. Woodmass
Crescendo
Overview
The reports are in: how we relate to technology directly affects how we relate to other humans, to our environments, and to ourselves. Are we headed for a technological dystopia, where robots are in charge and empathy is just a word for the history books? Not necessarily! Learn how the interfaces we interact with can teach us how to be better communicators, increase our understanding of each other, and how product design might be the key to building a positive future for all.
Objective
Directly address fear and skepticism about technology, inspiring all who design and build tech to think more empathetically when building UX and UI.
Target Audience
Product designers, HR specialists, and anyone skeptical about technology
Three Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to create user interfaces that are flexible enough to include everyone, even if they can’t keep up with all the different identities and new labels that people are using
What is conversation design, and how it has the power to teach people how to communicate
How AI has the potential to be more inclusive than previous data analysis systems, if we leverage its weaknesses to the human advantage
Matt Swoboda
Notch
Overview
The adoption of real-time technologies and workflows for content creation is a seismic shift in the world of video/graphics. It has a fundamental effect on not just on render times but on the entire creative process. In this session hear from someone who has been using realtime graphics for creative work for almost 20 years, and his experiences in applying it to productions such as the Ed Sheeran world tour and Cirque du Soleil.
Objective
Give the audience an overview of what really is capable in a real-time workflow today, and where things are headed.
Target Audience
Anyone who wants to take confident steps in the direction of real-time motion graphics, especially within the live, installation and AR fields.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
How does real-time change the creative and production process
Limitations – where does it work, where doesn’t it make sense
What real-time graphics are capable of today
What happens on a rock’n’roll tour bus
What DOESN’T happen on a rock’n’roll tour bus
Hasan Ahmad
Aquent DEV6
Overview
PWAs are a newly emerging delivery format for web, desktop apps. The fact that they can be installed on a client device and behave like natively installed apps means that special care should be taken when designing and building these types of apps, above and beyond a typical browser-only web application. One of the most important (potential) differentiators in the user experience of a PWA app vs a traditional web app is the ability to provide a high-performance UI because of their ability to do things like cache resources offline, including entire pieces of Web UI code, and the use of background services. In this talk we are going to do an exhaustive overview of the entire landscape of building PWAs from a performance-first perspective.
Target Audience
Web development teams
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Web Development fundamentals
Objective
Large enterprise applications
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Why PWA’s require performance engineering
What tools are available to measure performance metrics
Offline caching strategies
Host device considerations: desktop and mobile
Taking advantage of background code: Service Workers
Bhavana Srinivas
Netlify
Overview
A new web stack has emerged. A stack powered by modern browsers, API economy and Git based workflows. A stack that is not tied to specific technologies. A stack that takes into account both developer experience while building the application, and user experience when interacting with the application. A stack that delivers better performance, higher security, and lower cost of scaling for web applications.
In this talk, Bhavana will dive more into the architecture and best practices for building performant web applications using the JAMstack
Objective
Educate the audience about the JAMstack and why it powers performant sites
Target Audience
Web stakeholders who want fast, secure and performant websites
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Built a website/interacted with sites
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
What is the JAMstack
The ecosystem around the JAMstack
How to improve the performance of your site built on the JAMstack
Example sites built on this architecture
Resources and best practices
From Closed to Open: A Journey of Self DiscoveryFITC
Midge “Mantissa” Sinnaeve
Mantissa
Overview
Midge will be speaking about his experience of switching to open source applications for his freelance work. From ditching expensive software subscriptions to going down the linux rabbit hole, he’ll take you along for the ride and show you some cool stuff along the way.
It’s an in-depth look at what happens when your digital tools become an extension of yourself and how that can in turn inspire you to get better as an artist and find your style.
Objective
Taking a critical look at how you work and why.
Target Audience
(Motion) designers, 3D & VFX artists
Four Things Audience Members Will Learn
Open Source Design Tools
Self-criticism
Inspiration
Letting go
Studio Macouno has been realizing post industrial projects for two decades. Though they’re very busy doing things like creating generative shavers for Philips and designing life size 3D printed petition elephants, those are but a fraction of what they would like to do.
In this talk Dolf will explore the projects they just don’t have time for. The things the studio would love to do but can’t do on it’s own. The things that are way out there… Those that don’t seem possible, or are just too much work. The dreams that they think are a bit too much, but they just might do anyway.
Objective
Finding, funding and founding cooperatives for creative futurist projects.
Target Audience
People interested in making things today that seem ideas for tomorrow.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Some about generative design
3d printing
Art
Running projects
And making things happen
Expert Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Drafting ServicesResDraft
Whether you’re looking to create a guest house, a rental unit, or a private retreat, our experienced team will design a space that complements your existing home and maximizes your investment. We provide personalized, comprehensive expert accessory dwelling unit (ADU)drafting solutions tailored to your needs, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.
Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
7 Alternatives to Bullet Points in PowerPointAlvis Oh
So you tried all the ways to beautify your bullet points on your pitch deck but it just got way uglier. These points are supposed to be memorable and leave a lasting impression on your audience. With these tips, you'll no longer have to spend so much time thinking how you should present your pointers.
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
1. the __ALGORITHM __
(a narrative)
sara simon (i work at the new york times)
@sarambsimon (that’s me on twitter)
fitc tech + creativity (twenty eighteen)
* **
29. “[a]n algorithm is any well-
defined computational
procedure that takes some
value, or set of values, as
input and produces some value,
or set of values, as output.”
42. “it is not the algorithm,
narrowly defined,
that has sociocultural effects,
but algorithmic systems —
intricate, dynamic arrangements of
people and code.
outside of textbooks, ‘algorithms’ are
almost always ‘algorithmic systems.’”
43.
44. “the next time you hear someone
talking about algorithms,
replace the term with ‘god’ &
ask yourself if the
meaning changes”
46. politico
“automation bias, he calls it:
the idea that people assume that
what an algorithm spits out must
be logical, right and good.”
GOD
47. the new york times magazine
“like a child who learns to ride a
bicycle by trial and error and,
asked to articulate the rules that
enable bicycle riding, simply shrugs
her shoulders and sails away…”
48. the new york times magazine
“…the algorithm looks vacantly at us
when we ask, ‘why?’ it is, like death,
another black box.”
GOD
49. “a thing you can hold in
your palm and caress.
a beautiful thing.
a divine one.”
95. place block of cheese on cutting board
remove wrapper
use knife to slice cheese about 2/3rds
of an inch thick
96. place block of cheese on cutting board
remove wrapper
use knife to slice cheese about 2/3rds
of an inch thick
(enough slices to cover the area of
one side of bread)
107. THE MUSIC MAN
distinguished musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actress
108. THE MUSIC MAN
distinguished musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actress
conductor and musical director
109. THE MUSIC MAN
distinguished musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actor
distinguished supporting or featured musical actress
conductor and musical director
outstanding musical
138. when i talk about a
life truly affected
by an algorithm?
139. the l.a. times
december 2017
“the los angeles police department
asked drivers to avoid navigation apps,
which are steering users onto more
open routes — in this case, streets
in the neighborhoods that are on fire.”
140. politico
january/february 2018
“the things fiscalnote is doing—
sifting through murky bills and
votes and patterns of behavior—
is precisely why you hire an
experienced staffer.”
144. wired
october 2017
“public agencies responsible for areas
such as criminal justice, health, and
welfare increasingly use scoring systems
and software to steer or make decisions
on life-changing events like granting bail,
sentencing, enforcement, and prioritizing
services.”
152. “it would do this by automating
welfare eligibility processes:
substituting online applications for
face-to-face interactions, building
centralized call centers throughout
the state and ‘transitioning’ 1500
state employees to private telephone
call centers run by acs”
153. “between 2006 and 2008,
the state of indiana denied more
than a million applications for
food stamps, medicaid, and cash
benefits, a 54 percent increase
compared to the three years
prior to automation”
155. “automated eligibility was based
on the assumption that it is
better for ten eligible
applicants to be denied public
benefits than for one ineligible
person to receive them”