Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Chicago 2016
An in-progress compendium of links, resources, and information from the speakers at An Event Apart Chicago.
Community
An Event Apart Facebook An Event Apart Google+ @aneventapart Twitter feed Twitter Search: #aeachi (AEA Chicago hashtag) A Groove Apart: Ten Years of AEA in Playlist Form
Attendee Write-ups
From Josh Tuck: The Event Apart 2016 - Day 1 The Event Apart 2016 - Day 2 The Event Apart 2016 - Day 3
Speaker Links and Resources
Jeffrey Zeldman
24 ways: Grid, Flexbox, Box Alignment: Our New System for Layout by Rachel Andrew 24 ways: Putting My Patterns Through Their Paces by Ethan Marcotte A List Apart: Understanding Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson Atomic Design (blog post) by Brad Frost Atomic Design (book, readable online) by Brad Frost Content Display Patterns by Daniel Mall (danielmall.com) CSS-Tricks: Complete Guide to Flexbox by Chris Coyier CSS-Tricks: A Complete Guide to Grid by Chris Coyier CSS-Tricks: The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?” by Chris Coyier Designing With Web Standards (Wikipedia article) Future-Friendly Manifesto Fuzzy Notepad: Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript by “eevee” Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now by Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman.com) Has Design Become Too Hard? Position Wanted: Front-End Director
Yesenia Perez-Cruz
GQ Performance Case Study Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better Talk: Stefan Sagmeister “Beauty vs. Utility” The Truth About Download Time More Weight Doesn't Mean More Wait Walmart Performance Case Study Obama for America Performance Case Study Fast Enough Designing Medium 7 Alternatives to Popular Web Typefaces for Better Performance IBM “Good Design” Creating Living Style Guides to Improve Performance
Jason Grigsby
Hololens Gestures Leap Motion Oculus Rift tour You cannot reliably detect a touch screen Interactive touch laptop experiments New Rule: Every Desktop Design Has To Go Finger-Friendly jQuery Pointer Events Polyfill Compass.js Warby Parker Gyroscope Example Lightsaber Escape Gyroscope Example Generic Sensor API Draft requestAutocomplete Web Cam Toy HTML Media Capture and getUserMedia Web Speech API Demonstration Web Speech API Translation Demonstration Web Bluetooth Physical Web Open Device Labs Autofill: What web devs should know, but don't
Stephanie Hay
Journey trailer Animal crossing trailer Ben & Jerry's FastCustomer CashTapp SecondLook Capital One on Alexa "Make it Stick" book
Jen Simmons
Examples at labs.jensimmons.com Jen's on Twitter at @jensimmons Listen to thewebahead.net, especially episodes 115, 114, 81, & 9 for more on layout Video of Jen's talk on how to use new CSS now Video of Jen's talk, Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts A blog post by Manuel Rego that gets into the implicit and explicit grid, hinting at just how complicated CSS Grid Layout gets Using Feature Queries in CSS Round specification Firefox Nightly
Val Head
The UI Animation Newsletter Designing Interface Animation Researching Design Systems Integrating animation into the UX workflow Design Doesn't Scale Pixar storyboards
Mat Marquis
Bocoup Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite “GQ cut its load time by 80%... traffic and revenue jump: http://bit.ly/1MuofOB #perfmatters” —Ilya Grigorik “13% of Americans own a smartphone but don't have home broadband – up from 8% in 2013 http://pewrsr.ch/1mf2ZDX ” —Pew Research Searching for Work in the Digital Era U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015 “TIL @opera is bigger, by user count, than @twitter #wowzer #DOM15” —James Finlayson Design for Real Life loadcss: A function for loading CSS asynchronously Mobile Analysis in PageSpeed Insights Grunt wrapper for criticalcss CSS Font Loading Module Level 3 fontfaceobserver: Font load events, simple, small and efficient Critical Web Fonts Responsive Images Now Landed In WordPress Core grunt-perfbudget: Grunt task for Performance Budgeting Calibre Inclusive Web Development
Rachel Andrew
Grid By Example List of resources for AEA Chicago
Eric Meyer
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test The World is Designed for Men Flickr faces complaints over 'offensive' auto-tagging for photos Google Photos labeled black people 'gorillas' “Edge case” tweet by Evan Hensleigh Apple Adds Menstrual Cycle Tracking To HealthKit App Performing a Project Premortem - Harvard Business Review Design for Real Life Patients Like Me Simple Voice and Tone My Favorite Editing Tip: Read It Aloud by Kate Kiefer Lee Forms That Work Help, I'm Trapped in Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory
Josh Clark
Web APIs for sensor-based UI
The full list all W3C JavaScript APIs Geolocation Web speech (make/understand speech) (demo) Web audio (make/understand sound) Media capture (audio/video/photo) Web bluetooth Accelerometer Proximity Battery status Vibration Ambient light
Other APIs and dev environments
Physical Web IFTTT: If This Then That Alexa Skills Kit for making Alexa apps Wayfindr standard for beacon-based wayfinding Open Hybrid for connected devices Presto Android gesture control with smartwatch Reality Editor augmented reality for connecting devices
Examples/videos from the talk
Nappy Notifier Propeller Health asthma control Amazon Echo Amazon Dash button Bluetooth buttons: bt.tn and flic Ringly notification ring Lechal map shoes Glowcaps medication reminder Mailchimp Oliver (also: the whole series) Lifeprint video photographs THAW phone/screen interaction Happy Together music transfer (github) Presto smartwatch gesture control Grab Magic tv/phone sharing Reality Editor for connecting objects Wink Robot Butler Wayfindr subway navigation for the blind
Framing the imaginative opportunity
Of Nerve and Imagination by Josh Clark Magical UX and the Internet of Things (video) Enchanted Objects (book) by David Rose Hazards of Prophecy (pdf) from Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke The Future Mundane by Nick Foster #IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans by Tim O'Reilly
Ethics and values for the physical interface
IOT Design Manifesto: guidelines for responsible design The Ethical Design Manifesto: a response to surveillance capitalism The Coming Age of Calm Technology by Aral Balkan The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown Connected // Disconnected by Josh Clark Wearables and Our Dysfunctinoal Obsession with Screens and Engagement Living with the Algorithm by Josh Clark Smartwatches, Wearables and that Nasty Data Rash by Josh Clark
Speculative fiction for potential futures
Curious Rituals Teacher of Algorithms TBD Catalog How smart does your bed have to be, before you are afraid to go to sleep at night? by Rich Gold Addicted Products: the story of Brad the toaster (video) Ethical Things: a fan that makes moral choices Black Mirror tv series (Netflix)