Presented at Web Unleashed 2017. More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Presented by Ksenija Gogic, TWG
Overview
What are components? How can designers apply a component-minded approach to their workflow? How can we leverage components to improve the design handoff? Ultimately – how can designers and developers work together even better?
Using React as a framework, Ksenija will discuss how to design for a component-based web application to make for a more efficient workflow, an easier design handoff, and a better understanding between roles.
Objective
To create a common language and understanding when working with component-based web frameworks between designers and developers.
Target Audience
Designers and developers looking to make their collaborative workflow even better.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to take a component-minded approach to building a design system
How to design and create components using Sketch symbols
How to assemble (compose) collections of components using Sketch symbols
How to work with modifiers (props) to customize components
How to ensure everyone is speaking the same language
Building Progressive Web Apps for Android and iOSFITC
Presented at Web Unleashed 2017. More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Presented by Simon MacDonald, Adobe
Overview
Progressive Web Apps are the new hotness with Google pressing hard to make them the defacto choice for building mobile applications but what’s to be done about iOS where many of the key API’s are not supported. That’s where Apache Cordova/PhoneGap comes in by polyfilling the missing functionality. In this talk Simon will show you how to create a PWA that runs on the web, Android and iOS from a single code base. Take advantage of some new tools to easily deploy and test your PWA.
Beginning with a brief overview of Progressive Web Apps, what features make your web app progressive and which API’s you can take advantage of, Simon will discuss the availability of these API’s on various platforms, taking care not to completely dump on Apple for falling behind. No, that’s a lie, he will jokingly take Apple to task.
He will introduce Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, explaining how you can use Apache Cordova/PhoneGap to deploy a web application to Android and iOS; explaining how Cordova plugins allow us to polyfil the missing functionality on iOS.
Simon will demo a PWA running on the desktop in Chrome, Android in Chrome and as a compiled hybrid app on iOS all from the same codebase.
Objective
To introduce developers to building progressive web apps for all platforms.
Target Audience
Web application developers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
What are Progressive Web Apps
How to build a progressive web app
The differences between PWA’s on Chrome and Safari
How to use a single code base to target web, Android and iOS
How to deploy a PWA on iOS as an app
jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 - Present and FutureRichard Worth
jQuery has grown over 7 years to become the most widely used JavaScript library ever. This talk will cover how the jQuery project continues to support the browsers of the past, present, and future while also delivering modularity, innovation, and mobile support.
Presentation from Denver Open Source Users Group in February 2015. http://www.meetup.com/DOSUG1/events/219099019/
AngularJS is one of today's hottest JavaScript MVC Frameworks. In this session, we'll explore many concepts it brings to the world of client-side development: dependency injection, directives, filters, routing and two-way data binding. We'll also look at its recommended testing tools and build systems. Finally, you'll learn about my experience developing several real-world applications using AngularJS, HTML5 and Bootstrap.
jQuery Conference Boston 2011 CouchAppsBradley Holt
CouchApps are web applications built using CouchDB, JavaScript, and HTML5. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. This talk will answer your fundamental questions about CouchDB and will cover the basics of building CouchApps using jQuery and various jQuery plugins.
Building Progressive Web Apps for Android and iOSFITC
Presented at Web Unleashed 2017. More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Presented by Simon MacDonald, Adobe
Overview
Progressive Web Apps are the new hotness with Google pressing hard to make them the defacto choice for building mobile applications but what’s to be done about iOS where many of the key API’s are not supported. That’s where Apache Cordova/PhoneGap comes in by polyfilling the missing functionality. In this talk Simon will show you how to create a PWA that runs on the web, Android and iOS from a single code base. Take advantage of some new tools to easily deploy and test your PWA.
Beginning with a brief overview of Progressive Web Apps, what features make your web app progressive and which API’s you can take advantage of, Simon will discuss the availability of these API’s on various platforms, taking care not to completely dump on Apple for falling behind. No, that’s a lie, he will jokingly take Apple to task.
He will introduce Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, explaining how you can use Apache Cordova/PhoneGap to deploy a web application to Android and iOS; explaining how Cordova plugins allow us to polyfil the missing functionality on iOS.
Simon will demo a PWA running on the desktop in Chrome, Android in Chrome and as a compiled hybrid app on iOS all from the same codebase.
Objective
To introduce developers to building progressive web apps for all platforms.
Target Audience
Web application developers
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
What are Progressive Web Apps
How to build a progressive web app
The differences between PWA’s on Chrome and Safari
How to use a single code base to target web, Android and iOS
How to deploy a PWA on iOS as an app
jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 - Present and FutureRichard Worth
jQuery has grown over 7 years to become the most widely used JavaScript library ever. This talk will cover how the jQuery project continues to support the browsers of the past, present, and future while also delivering modularity, innovation, and mobile support.
Presentation from Denver Open Source Users Group in February 2015. http://www.meetup.com/DOSUG1/events/219099019/
AngularJS is one of today's hottest JavaScript MVC Frameworks. In this session, we'll explore many concepts it brings to the world of client-side development: dependency injection, directives, filters, routing and two-way data binding. We'll also look at its recommended testing tools and build systems. Finally, you'll learn about my experience developing several real-world applications using AngularJS, HTML5 and Bootstrap.
jQuery Conference Boston 2011 CouchAppsBradley Holt
CouchApps are web applications built using CouchDB, JavaScript, and HTML5. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. This talk will answer your fundamental questions about CouchDB and will cover the basics of building CouchApps using jQuery and various jQuery plugins.
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 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.
Building a Simple Mobile-optimized Web App Using the jQuery Mobile FrameworkSt. Petersburg College
Presented June 8, 2012 (Online) at the 'Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies' conference sponsored by Amigos Library Services.
Description: By the end of 2012, it is expected that more than 80% of the world’s population will have access to a smartphone. Your library users will assume that your library can be accessible from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. Now is the time to be ready! During this webinar, you will:
- learn what a mobile framework is.
- acquire best practices in mobile Web development.
- understand the various technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how they work together to build mobile Web apps.
- recognize the differences between native and web apps.
- have an opportunity to continue to work with Chad after the webinar to demonstrate what you learned.
- gain access after the webinar to a free Web server so you can see your mobile Web app live.
After consulting with several companies on performance related issues, it became clear that one of the biggest performance issues facing websites today is the sheer amount of JavaScript needed to power the page. The demand for more interactive and responsive applications has driven JavaScript usage through the roof. It’s quite common for large sites to end up with over 1 MB of JavaScript code on their page even after minification. But do today’s web applications really need that much JavaScript?
Christmas holiday experiment: creating a VueJS front that gets data through GraphQL from a decoupled WordPress install on another server. Read more on this blogpost: https://conimpeto.be/wordpress/create-a-wordpress-twentyseventeen-theme-with-vuejs-and-graphql/.
The main API for PWA creation is Service Workers, they are the heart of this “new web”. With Service workers, we can send push notifications to the user or do background sync and show data even when the user is offline. They are not some science fiction, but a script that is quite easy to use.
In this talk, we will see overview what are service workers and when and how to use them.
An overview of web development essentials that will help you as a user experience designer to not only understand how to integrate designs with development components, but also to learn some tips on interacting effectively with developers.
On Selecting JavaScript Frameworks (Women Who Code 10/15)Zoe Landon
For front-end developers, there's a never-ending stream of new things to learn. New frameworks, with new philosophies, seem to be released on a daily basis. How, then, do you pick which one to use? The answer, as it happens, has nothing to do at all with JavaScript.
The Complementarity of React and Web ComponentsAndrew Rota
On Github: http://andrewrota.github.io/complementarity-of-react-and-web-components-presentation/index.html
The component driven, performance focused approach of React is a perfect complement to the modularity and portability of native HTML Web Components. At first glance, React and Web Components might seem like two radically different solutions to the same problem. But when combined properly they complement each other to create an extremely powerful, expressive framework for developing complex web applications.
In the beginning, progressive enhancement was simple: HTML layered with CSS layered with JavaScript. That worked fine when there were two browsers, but in today's world of multiple devices and multiple browsers, it's time for a progressive enhancement reboot. At the core is the understanding that the web is not print - the same rules don't apply. As developers and consumers we've been fooled into thinking about print paradigms for too long. In this talk, you'll learn just how different the web is and how the evolution of progressive enhancement can lead to better user experiences as well as happier developers and users.
This deck is a conference-agnostic one, suitable to be shown anywhere without site-specific jokes!
This presentation will show the latest Web Components technologies and examples, and whether you should be using Web Components now. (spoiler alert: you should be!)
About a year ago we started using Progressive web apps. The idea behind PWA is to replace native mobile apps.
In this talk, I will show you what is possible to build with PWA, what is the limitation and what we learn. And of course, you will see where PWA can be a good fit for your projects. Progressive Web Apps use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience.
They evolve from pages in browser tabs to immersive, top-level apps, maintaining the web's low friction at every moment. They are reliable, fast, engaging and delivering amazing UX to end users. And they are here!
Learn reactjs, how to code with example and general understanding thinkwikHetaxi patel
React js for beginners, learn react js with basic code setup and code examples with general understanding. beginners guide for basic react js programming with examples
Many teams may have a front end developer among their ranks, but besides a title or area of responsibility, it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact craft of front end development. Expertise in web technologies is a good start, but we can't forget the users we actually build for. This talk will examine the impact of the front end on User Experience. I'll talk about how becoming more fluent across more UX concerns like content and user research can help front enders make better decisions, can bring more clarity to our craft, and result in building better experiences for our users.
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 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.
Building a Simple Mobile-optimized Web App Using the jQuery Mobile FrameworkSt. Petersburg College
Presented June 8, 2012 (Online) at the 'Access by Touch: Delivering Library Services Through Mobile Technologies' conference sponsored by Amigos Library Services.
Description: By the end of 2012, it is expected that more than 80% of the world’s population will have access to a smartphone. Your library users will assume that your library can be accessible from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. Now is the time to be ready! During this webinar, you will:
- learn what a mobile framework is.
- acquire best practices in mobile Web development.
- understand the various technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how they work together to build mobile Web apps.
- recognize the differences between native and web apps.
- have an opportunity to continue to work with Chad after the webinar to demonstrate what you learned.
- gain access after the webinar to a free Web server so you can see your mobile Web app live.
After consulting with several companies on performance related issues, it became clear that one of the biggest performance issues facing websites today is the sheer amount of JavaScript needed to power the page. The demand for more interactive and responsive applications has driven JavaScript usage through the roof. It’s quite common for large sites to end up with over 1 MB of JavaScript code on their page even after minification. But do today’s web applications really need that much JavaScript?
Christmas holiday experiment: creating a VueJS front that gets data through GraphQL from a decoupled WordPress install on another server. Read more on this blogpost: https://conimpeto.be/wordpress/create-a-wordpress-twentyseventeen-theme-with-vuejs-and-graphql/.
The main API for PWA creation is Service Workers, they are the heart of this “new web”. With Service workers, we can send push notifications to the user or do background sync and show data even when the user is offline. They are not some science fiction, but a script that is quite easy to use.
In this talk, we will see overview what are service workers and when and how to use them.
An overview of web development essentials that will help you as a user experience designer to not only understand how to integrate designs with development components, but also to learn some tips on interacting effectively with developers.
On Selecting JavaScript Frameworks (Women Who Code 10/15)Zoe Landon
For front-end developers, there's a never-ending stream of new things to learn. New frameworks, with new philosophies, seem to be released on a daily basis. How, then, do you pick which one to use? The answer, as it happens, has nothing to do at all with JavaScript.
The Complementarity of React and Web ComponentsAndrew Rota
On Github: http://andrewrota.github.io/complementarity-of-react-and-web-components-presentation/index.html
The component driven, performance focused approach of React is a perfect complement to the modularity and portability of native HTML Web Components. At first glance, React and Web Components might seem like two radically different solutions to the same problem. But when combined properly they complement each other to create an extremely powerful, expressive framework for developing complex web applications.
In the beginning, progressive enhancement was simple: HTML layered with CSS layered with JavaScript. That worked fine when there were two browsers, but in today's world of multiple devices and multiple browsers, it's time for a progressive enhancement reboot. At the core is the understanding that the web is not print - the same rules don't apply. As developers and consumers we've been fooled into thinking about print paradigms for too long. In this talk, you'll learn just how different the web is and how the evolution of progressive enhancement can lead to better user experiences as well as happier developers and users.
This deck is a conference-agnostic one, suitable to be shown anywhere without site-specific jokes!
This presentation will show the latest Web Components technologies and examples, and whether you should be using Web Components now. (spoiler alert: you should be!)
About a year ago we started using Progressive web apps. The idea behind PWA is to replace native mobile apps.
In this talk, I will show you what is possible to build with PWA, what is the limitation and what we learn. And of course, you will see where PWA can be a good fit for your projects. Progressive Web Apps use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience.
They evolve from pages in browser tabs to immersive, top-level apps, maintaining the web's low friction at every moment. They are reliable, fast, engaging and delivering amazing UX to end users. And they are here!
Learn reactjs, how to code with example and general understanding thinkwikHetaxi patel
React js for beginners, learn react js with basic code setup and code examples with general understanding. beginners guide for basic react js programming with examples
Many teams may have a front end developer among their ranks, but besides a title or area of responsibility, it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact craft of front end development. Expertise in web technologies is a good start, but we can't forget the users we actually build for. This talk will examine the impact of the front end on User Experience. I'll talk about how becoming more fluent across more UX concerns like content and user research can help front enders make better decisions, can bring more clarity to our craft, and result in building better experiences for our users.
In the old days, many developers looked at complex websites and web applications as a series of individual pages. These days, it’s all about abstracting these pages down to re-usable elements, modules and components which are then documented, designed and built as comprehensive pattern libraries. Pattern libraries can be used as an integral part of the UX, design and front-end development phases. But where should accessibility be included in these different types of pattern libraries? Come on a journey as we explore the pain and glory of baking accessibility into UX, design and front-end pattern libraries.
Introduction to Docker and Containers- Learning SimpleSandeep Hijam
This small free E-book talks about what docker and containers are. Also I believe every reader can easily understand the underlying principle without technical jargon
Presented at FITC Toronto 2016
See details at www.fitc.ca
There is no doubt React is here to stay, it’s popularity is on the rise. But if you are new to JS or new to JS frameworks you might be wondering WHY is it so popular. In this talk we will look at why we have React and what problems it solves. The concept of reusable components, their life cycles and the common terminology. We will also explore what the workflow for building a modern React app looks like, and where React can fall short. Learning React in 2016 will be an important step in your career, so lets dive in!
Objective
Break down the concepts behind React and make it easy for people to start building with it.
Target Audience
JavaScript developers or project mangers looking to get a better understanding of React.
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Intermediate understanding of JavaScript.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Why do we have react, what problems does it solve
React components
Component life cycles
Common terminology
Where React falls short
Also, keep in mind, this is, of course, just my list and I deliberately wanted to keep it short because if I specified 20 trends here, I'm not sure if they're really all trends.
A brownbag presentation at IPC media in London about the need to use libraries to make web development much less random and more professional. Get the audio at: http://www.archive.org/details/ProfessionalWebDevelopmentWithLibraries
Atomic Design: Effective Way of Designing UIFibonalabs
Atomic Design is a methodology developed by Brad Frost to guide developers in the creation of more intentional and hierarchical interface design systems.
If you’re not new to the tech world, you might know the importance of frontend frameworks and libraries in web development and how their ecosystem is evolving rapidly. In order to walk at the same pace, businesses adopt new tools along with different libraries and frameworks available to choose from. But there is no shadow of a doubt the urge to stay updated leads them to a big dilemma of which technology would be perfect for building their desired digital solutions. In this blog, we will discuss in detail why React is an incredible choice for web app development.
No matter whether it is a high-performing responsive website or a web-based application, using libraries is crucial. React or ReactJS can smooth the way for you. It is one such frontend web development tool that 10.2 million websites worldwide are using. Today, software engineers worldwide are interested in learning this hottest skill. Not only this but a lot of demand for React developers has also been noticed among startups and MNCs in recent years. But why?
Why is there a lot of buzz around React? What is ReactJS? What are the skills required to learn this tech? How much time would it take to become a pro in React? Well, if such questions hit your head, it’s time to go through this blog post.
Frontend Development Bootcamp - React [Online & Offline] In BanglaStack Learner
Frontend Development Bootcamp - React
Stack School:
https://courses.stackschool.co/courses/frontend-development-bootcamp-react
"Frontend Development Bootcamp - React"[ Online + Offline], we will teach you frontend development and its process. And we will use React and its ecosystem for learning. But at the end of this camp, if you want to switch to any other library or framework, and you can do so without anyone's help.
ওয়েব ডিজাইনার না, জেনে শুনে বুঝে, দীর্ঘ সময় হাতে কলমে প্রাকটিস করে সত্যিকার অর্থেই ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপার হতে চাইলে এই বুটক্যাম্পটি আপনার জন্য। ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্ট মানে HTML CSS না, React Vue না, এটা একটা প্রোসেস এবং যা আমরা শিখবো React ব্যবহার করে।
Frontend Development Bootcamp - React [Online & Offline]
43+ Weeks, 86+ Classes - A Long Journey to Become A Professional Frontend Developer
আমাদের অনেকেরই ধারণা ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্ট মানেই হচ্ছে React, Vue বা Angular. এগুলো একবার শিখতে পারলেই হয়ে গেলো। কিন্তু বাস্তবিক অর্থে এগুলো হচ্ছে কিছু টুলস যা আপনাকে ফ্রন্টেন্ড অ্যাপলিকেশন ডেভেলপ করতে সাহায্য করবে। এই সুদীর্ঘ বুটক্যাম্পে আমরা ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্ট শিখবো। এবং শেখার কাজে ব্যবহার করবো React এবং এর ইকো সিস্টেম। তবে এই ক্যাম্প শেষে যদি আপনি অন্য যে কোনো লাইব্রেরী বা ফ্রেমওয়ার্ক এ সুইচ করতে চান, কারোর সাহায্য ছাড়াই আপনি সেটা করতে পারবেন। কারণ এই লম্বা বুটক্যাম্পে আপনাকে ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্টের থিওরি এবং প্রসেসের সাথে এমন ভাবে পরিচয় করিয়ে দেওয়া হবে, যেন চাইলেই আপনি যেকোনো টুলস ব্যবহার করে ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্ট করতে পারেন। মনে রাখবেন, এটা React এর কোনো কোর্স না, ফ্রন্টেন্ড ডেভেলপমেন্ট কোর্স যেখানে আমরা টুল হিসেবে React কে বেছে নিয়েছি।
Rich, interactive web applications AKA fat clients are now commonplace. There are so many frameworks for building these rich client applications, and the debate among developers is which of these frameworks to use. As designers and developers we need to step back, and ask ourselves when and how we should enrich our client applications and when or why not. Let’s dig in to the question: Why do we even want fat clients, and when should we use them? Let’s examine the complications such clients introduce so we can weigh them against all the benefits.
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What is web development and how it can benefit your business | SEO Exparte BD Ltd.
Consider all of the web applications you have used in the past week. You probably can't even keep track of how many websites you visited, including your favorite news site, Facebook, and shopping sites. The internet is probably the first site you turn to if you need to find gifts, reserve a hotel room, or make a doctor's appointment. Even when the actual purchase takes place in a store, 80% of significant transactions begin with online research. The fact that 1 in 4 small businesses still don't have a website or a web app is somewhat astonishing, then. Especially in light of the numerous advantages that web apps may provide for organizations.
A web app can help your company grow by positioning you as a reliable partner who values its clients. But how can you build a feature-rich web application that your users would adore? Web development services might be used in this situation if you lack the time or the necessary abilities to create one yourself.
What is Web Development?
The entire process of creating, developing, testing, and maintaining websites and web applications is known as web development. This refers to the entire process of web design, web content development, client-side/server-side scripting, network security settings, and occasionally SEO optimization that goes into making a web app look great, operate well, and have a smooth user experience.
Full-stack web developers typically write lengthy lines of code in text editors, style it with CSS, and then combine all the components to make these products. Today, however, they can also create a new website without having to start from scratch by using tools like Adobe Dreamweaver or content management systems.
The three main types of web developers are front-end developers, back-end developers, and full-stack developers. All of a website's visual elements are the responsibility of front-end development experts (layout, navigation bar, etc.). Its functionality and interactivity are also the responsibility of front-end developers.
Less visible duties and development areas handled by backend developers include administering the web app services, databases, and applications. To fix server-side concerns with back-end development, backend developers may also need to use additional server-side languages like Python, Ruby, Java, and PHP. Full-stack developers can work on both the front end and the back end.
What tools do web developers use?
When people refer to "web app development tools," they typically refer to the HTML, Java, and CSS programming languages, apps, and environments that enable developers to write and debug the code for online applications. However, the job of a web developer changes along with the digital world.
They now need to be capable of more than just writing code fragments. They must be knowledgeable with graphic elements, responsive UI/UX design, prototyping, wire-framing
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
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
20240605 QFM017 Machine Intelligence Reading List May 2024
Thinking in Components
1. Thinking in Components
🤔 📥 🏗
Good morning y’all! Let’s learn about how to think in components! ✨ ✨ ✨
2. Creating a shared understanding
between designers and developers
to do our best work together
Thinking in Components
🤔 📥 🏗
The goal of this talk it to create a shared understanding
between designers and developers
around component-based web frameworks
to enable us to do our best work together.
Show of hands —
How many people in the room are designers?
How many people in the room are developers?
3. Inspiration
✨
The inspiration for this talk came from me wanting to share the amazing experience I had with developing component-based web apps with my design peers.
4. Efficiency
🏎
As a developer, component-based frameworks enabled me to build and assemble UI quickly and efficiently, buying me time to delve deeper into functionality,
interactions, new user flows — you name it.
5. Everyone Wins!
👯
So as a developer, if I was afforded all these wins, could I pass on my learning and thinking to designers, so that they too could benefit from this approach and workflow?
7. @twg
At a software agency in Toronto called TWG
And coming from an agency, our teams are in constant flux — so it’s important to me I figure out how to work best with each of my peers on my new teams.
8. React
And, in the last year,
I’ve spent the majority of it building web apps
with component-based libraries,
specifically React
9. ❓
Component-Based
So I’ll be talking through my learnings and experience with React as my “component framework” anchor, but know that approach is applicable with any component-
based framework or library.
10. Web Components™
And know that this approach is here to stay — at least for as long as things stay on the web — as web components are now a part of future browser spec.
11. 03. How can I apply this approach to my design workflow?
How can a web framework impact my design
workflow for the better?
Today’s
Agenda
01. What makes a framework or library “component-based”?
And why is everyone* suddenly using them?
*intended as hyperbole
04. How can this improve handoff?
And more importantly — the working relationship
between designers and developers?
00. What inspired you to do this talk?
Because my life changed for the better once I
introduced a component-based approach!
02. Most importantly — what is a component?
And why should I care*?!
*because knowledge is power
12. “
”
What makes a library or
framework “component-
based”? Why are libraries
like React all the rage?
Okay so the first major question —
13. First — let’s talk
about the ecosystem
these libraries live in.
Web Development Ecosystem
Static Web vs. Dynamic Web vs. Web Applications
So before we dive deep into what makes a library or framework specifically “web-component”-based, let’s first understand the ecosystem of the general kinds of tools
we have to at our disposal when building for the web.
14. Web Development Ecosystem
First — let’s talk
about the ecosystem
these libraries live in.
Static Web vs. Dynamic Web vs. Web Applications
When making websites, we can opt to make static websites.
A static website is a site that serves / sends the end user a final file of what each page is meant to show. The only communication with the backend is to send a final
HTML, CSS and sometimes JS file for each view. Sometimes, we’ll generate static sites — so we may be building in a framework like React, but by the time we put it on
our server, we’ll have generated final static files of it, to optimize load times for users.
As another example, my personal website is a static site — I have a couple of HTML files up there, and any time I need to make a change, I have to edit an HMTL or CSS
file, and re-upload them to my server.
15. Web Development Ecosystem
First — let’s talk
about the ecosystem
these libraries live in.
Static Web vs. Dynamic Web vs. Web Applications
Dynamic sites, on the other hand, are usually sites paired with a CMS that allows an admin to create and control content.
Wordpress sites are great examples of this — these sites have specified templates per view, but through an admin view, we’re able to populate all of the content that’s
going to be actually displayed. Generally, in this environment, the admins have access to high functional admin areas, but the end users generally do a lot of reading of
content, and interact mainly with forms.
16. Web Development Ecosystem
First — let’s talk
about the ecosystem
these libraries live in.
Static Web vs. Dynamic Web vs. Web Applications
And then we have web applications — web apps offer the end user a highly-interactive experience on the web.
As web applications generally have many flows and screens, and are generally continuously growing, the goal is to minimize repeating work, and find ways to modularize
and reuse existing elements. This is where web component-based libraries really shine. Often you’ll hear these referred to as “SPAs” — “Single Page Applications”.
17. Web Development Ecosystem
First — let’s talk
about the ecosystem
these libraries live in.
Use the right tool
And the last thing I wanted to touch on is — no one type of output is better than the next. It’s about using the right tool for the solution.
18. Next — let’s talk
about the web app
ecosystem.
Web Application Ecosystem
So many to choose from!
So, for the case of web applications — some of the best tools available to use are component-based libraries and frameworks.
Component-based frameworks and libraries are frameworks and libraries like React, Preact, Angular 2 and Vue.js.
19. Next — let’s talk
about the web app
ecosystem.
Web Application Ecosystem
No Browser Left Behind
And again, the reason more and more people are picking them is because this has proven to be a useful and successful approach to building web applications — and
this approach is part of future browser spec!
Until then — frameworks like React really help to fill the gaps in what current, modern browsers are capable of.
20. “
”
Okay that’s all very nice
but I still don’t know what
a web component is?
If you’re thinking …
Yes — you’re right — comin’ right up!
21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Components
A custom element that
allows for reusability
and modularity.
Web Component
A web component is an element that is completely self contained — all the markup, styles and logic are all bundled into one component.
“Web Components are a set of features currently[1] being added by the W3C to the HTML and DOM specifications that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or
components in web documents and web applications.”
22. https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-component.html
A custom element that
allows for reusability
and modularity.
React Component
Bringing this back to what I know, I have the most amount of experience with React components.
From the React docs: “a React component lets you split the UI into independent, reusable pieces, and think about each piece in isolation.”
23. “
”
Cool. That’s great. Now,
tell me how this going to
impact my design work?
And so now you might be thinking…
24. A custom element that
allows for reusability
and modularity.
Sketch Symbol
https://www.sketchapp.com/learn/documentation/symbols/
PLOT TWIST!
This functionality exists outside the browser! In fact — Sketch Symbols do a fantastic job of instilling the same way of work as React might!
From the Sketch docs: “Symbols is a powerful feature in Sketch that allows you to reuse elements easily across Artboards and Pages.”
25.
26. Components: In the Wild
So that should be our mantra — reuse and modularize, reuse and modularize, reuse and modularize. And the easiest way to do identify what we can reuse and good
candidates for modularity is to look for patterns of repetition.
So here’s something I built a few months ago (thank you, thank you) — it’s a section where we’re introducing users to a series of curriculum. Right away, we can see a
bunch of repetition — right?
27. Components: In the Wild
I have a bunch of these curriculum card elements repeated — so I can create this kinda “curriculum card” element that I can then repeat to my heart’s content.
28. Components: In the Wild
But even in just this section alone, I can identify another element that’s repeated — this button. So when I’m creating my Curriculum Card component, I don’t want to just
create a single-use, specific layout element — it would be best if I could assemble a “Button” into my Curriculum Card — so I only have to worry about writing the code
once.
29. Components: In the Wild
So if we have repetition in that “View 2017 Curriculum” Section — we can be pretty sure we’ve got loads of repetition elsewhere in this view alone, as well as across the
entire app.
30. Identify and create
all your smallest
components.
Development Sprint One
We’ll call these “core components”
And so to help understand how we start developing and assembling (cause that’s what it really should be) these greater views, it’s important to note that we start with
creating all the smallest, repeated elements so that we can start building out our bigger and bigger ones.
31. Identify and create
all your smallest
components.
Development Sprint One Outcome
As Seen On VSCode™
Which will result in something like this.
32. Create all of your
smallest, reusable
symbols
(Potential) Design Sprint One
We’ll call these “core symbols”
And perhaps something that design can adapt from a component-based development mindset is the order of operations in which we created our design system?
33. Create all of your
smallest, reusable
symbols
(Potential) Design Sprint One
etc.
We’ll call these “core symbols”
And so what I’m suggesting is — just like developers begin with creating all of our smallest, reusable pieces — I’m suggesting designers may benefit from doing the
same.
So start by creating your often repeated elements — buttons, cards, headings, avatars — whatever makes sense for the project.
34. Components: Assembled with other Components!
And just to give you an idea, once we have all those small components (module number, heading, button, card), we can just “compose” a new component — our
Curriculum Card component!
35. Components: Assembled with other Components!
And just to prove it to you, here’s what that might look like in code
As you can see — all of the yellow elements — those are my custom defined components. So in this Card component, I’m using a Heading, Contact, Link and Button
element.
The other divs are there either because elements (like that fraction element) aren’t repeated anywhere, so it wasn’t necessary to modularize it, or for small flow / width
control.
36. Assemble all symbols*
that will be repeated
(Potential) Design Sprint One
*From other symbols! Symbolception!
etc.
And so, if we began with designing all of our smallest pieces — those buttons, cards, headings, avatars — you now have the building blocks to start assembling larger
and larger pieces of “Design UI.”
37. Components: Assembled with other Components!
And then check this out — this “collection of cards” — that’s just a CardCollection component.
38. Components: Assembled with other Components!
And just to prove it to you, here’s what that might look like in code!
39. Components: Assembled with other Components!
And here’s what that looks like in the even greater context of code!
40. Components: Establishing Modifiers
Now let’s talk modifiers.
Just in this screenshot, we can already see a hierarchy of sorts / difference in our button styles — something that I know there’s consideration around in design — but as
a dev, without a clear understanding of intent, I might misinterpret these buttons — are the outlined ones secondary? Are they inactive? What’s the jazz here!
41. s
(Potential) Design Sprint One
etc.
Establish all
potential variants
of a symbol
Primary / Secondary / Tertiary / Quaternary
So the next activity I may undertake as a developer is making variants of all my elements. This may be an incredible helpful exercise early on in design — this enriches
the symbol library you have to choose from!
42. Establish all
potential variants
of a symbol
(Potential) Design Workflow
And stick to them!
And perhaps something that design can adapt from a component-based development mindset is the order of operations in which we created our design system.
44. Exhaust all possible existing
variants of a symbol before making
the case for a custom instance.
Stick to Your Symbols:
- A proverb I came up with in like July when I presented a
version of this at work
You can imagine, if we have this existing library of core components / symbols, we can make new views, new components and whole new user flows much faster if we
just stick to existing variants of established symbols / components.
46. Two — Compose and
assemble symbols
from smaller symbols
Workflow Mantras
47. Three — Avoid custom
component modifiers
for single-context uses
Workflow Mantras
48. “
”
How can this improve the
design handoff? And our
working relationship?
49. Shared awareness
around your custom
components
Better Design Handoff
You both know what elements exist, and in what contexts
You’ve now both done the exercise of nominating components / symbols. You’re pretty aware of what exists now.
So, design handoff becomes a lot easier given that we’re aligned on what kinds of elements make sense to include in that first handoff — all those smallest, most
repeated pieces done ASAP lead to quicker UI assembly time for devs.
50. Shared vocabulary
around your custom
components
Better Design Handoff
You both can speak to your component taxonomy ⚡
You may have also created a shared language around them.
This is something that the whole team can benefit from — if we can all use the same nomenclature around our UI, we can smoothly be on the same page in discussions.
This even benefits the team from a client or outside perspective — we can quickly onboard and present our work consistently.
51. Shared understanding
around your custom
components
Better Design Handoff
You both “signed” a verbal contract
And you can both share that mindset of reuse and modularity.
This benefits the team well beyond the design handoff — you both can have an understanding of what it means to create a new component — can we reuse an existing
one? Can we find a way for 3 different contexts the share the exact same one with minimal tweaks?
52. Shared activity around
nominating and
naming components
Better Relationships
Knowledge transfer forever and ever
And perhaps — this can be an activity shared between design and development?
As a developer, I have to do this — I have to thinking in reusable, modular components when I’m building a web app. And it’s always my pleasure to work with a
designer, walk them through how to think in components, and share my approach and context with them.
It’s made for better, collaborative working relationship built on mutual understanding, respect, and collaboration.
53. 03. … And Sketch Symbols are very much like components
In that they have encapsulated markup and
styles, with a focus on modularity and reusability
Today’s
Learnings
01. Component-based libraries exist as a “polyfill”
Meaning technologies like React are here to fill the gap
until all browsers support web components
04. Shared understanding improves relationships
Because we can approach things with a similar
mindset, and teach each other from our learnings
00. I very much love components
And they’ve impacted me so positively as a developer I
had to share it with you today
02. Components are custom elements with markup and styles
Their primary focus is to make modularity and
reusability easy to do
56. Browser’s Castle
further tools for collaborating as
developers and designers
2:30pm @ The B-Side
🤝
If you enjoyed this,
and want to hear even more about working together better as developers and designers,
I’ll be discussing how to defend “Browser’s” Castle at 2:30 in The B-Side
with my good pal and Creative Director of TWG, Liam Thurston.