Fowd Recap

Compressing 8 hours into 25 minutes

November 18, 2009

FOWD 2009 Highlights

DAVIDWRIGHT

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DanCederholmSimpleBits

Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enhancements

Progressive enhancements with CSS3

Don’t wait around for all browsers to support new specifications.


EXPERIENCE

STYLE

MARKUP


Highlights1. Enriching form elements

Yahoo is rounding corners on submit buttons

2. RGBAA = Alpha (also awesome?)

3. Drop shadows that don’t hurtBuilt in support eliminates loads of work


Highlights4. Scaling images on hover

Eliminates need for duplicate images (ex: thumbs)

5. RotationInteresting opportunities for user-feedback

6. Fade effectsReduces need to create separate images


None of this stuff matters.”

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IE users: A less polished but not diminished user experience.

News?1. Add some sexy to your standalone

Experimental projects are a good starting spot

2. Today’s 10% = Tomorrow’s 40%Hone your style

3. Break up with FlashE!ects might help us relax our death grip on Flash


DanielBurkaDigg

Daniel Burka: Digg

Feedback Informing DesignListening. Really listening to your users.

Don’t oversimplify

Feedback can’t simply be grouped into good and bad categories.

Daniel Burka: Digg

Know your audience

If you’re a big organization, this can be tough. Do it anyway.

Daniel Burka: Digg

Feedback:1. Fans2. Haters3. Bug reporters4. Experts5. Niche6. Implicit

Daniel Burka: Digg

Be cautious

Complicated

Awesome

Free consulting

Be cautious

Stats, user-paths

Read between the linesFeedback usually indicates problems, not solutions.

Daniel Burka: Digg

“I need a faster horse.”

Change is frustrating.

Daniel Burka: Digg

Don’t panic

Elliott Jay StocksFreelance

Elliott Jay Stocks

& Get On With ItMore on CSS3

Stop Worrying

madebyelephant

atebits

24ways.org

bornliving.com

jasonsantamaria.com

Matthew Smith - Squared Eye

Elliott Jay Stocks

Don’t worry if you can’t validate.

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Many new technologies won’t validate because they’re not in the formal specifications.

BillBuxtonMicrosoft

& The Future of Web DesignOn how devices link us to the Web

Display Technology

Bill Buxton: Microsoft

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers today.

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ink browser=paper


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


Consistent display in all browsers?

Nope.


Blake WhitmanVimeo

Blake Whitman: Vimeo

Designing the Vimeo Community

Actively DesigningCommunity

Design for the users you want.

A space for creators of original video content.


Impose the right limits

No “most popular” lists

No “highest rated” videos

Contacts capped at 1,000


Lead by example

Staff must use the site

Design for users, yourselves


Panel Debate on Content: Short Form vs. Long Form

A debate about consumption and creation of content in long vs. short form.

The Long& Short of It

The debate produced few answers.

Not a shocker.


Why?1. Form is specific to content-type

2. How long should a video be?

3. Short form introduces long form

4. Editorial and marketing perspectives are very different


AUTHORITY

Is authority inherent in long form?

How is authority established in short form?


Molly HolzschlagOpera

Molly Holzschlag: Opera

The Mysterious Future of Markup

XHTML 2KilledHTML 5

HTML 4.01:The last spec

Anyone still use this?


XHTML 1.0Bridge between HTML and XML

Strict code formatting

MIME type problems in IE


XHTML 2Not backwards compatible

Effective only on a closed system


WHAT Working GroupWeb Hypertext Applications Technology Development Group


Started in 2004

Non draconian error handling

Highlights1. Forms 2.0

Required attribute will kick ass, for instance

2. New APIsHTML 5 specifies scripting APIs and OTHERS

3. Existing DOM interfaces are betterJavascript will be really helpful here


Be careful.

This spec is still evolving.


JoshDavisJoshua Davis Studios

Josh Davis: Joshua Davis Studios

SpaceCreating art with technology

Play is important.”

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If I’m not making mistakes than I’m not really learning anything.”

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If M.C. Escher were still alive, he’d be a F**kin’ programmer.”

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