AEA Resources: Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Atlanta 2015

An Event Apart Atlanta is now over, but you can revisit all the insights and wisdom with these resource links shared by our amazing speakers.

Community

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Session notes from Torre Kean

The Work That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Designing for Social Behavior
Change or Die
Design Decisions Through the Lens of Performance
Typesetting Body Text Like a Pirate Jedi with DeLorean
So…What Do I Make?
Designing for Crisis
Smaller, Faster Web Sites
Responsive Images are Here. Now What?
Prototyping and Play
Content Amid Chaos
Magical UX and the Internet of Things

3 Things You Can Learn From My Time at An Event Apart Atlanta by Kendra Skeene (georgia.gov)

Speaker Links and Resources

Samantha Warren

Nearly two thirds of cell phone owners use their phone to go online
Device Ownership Over Time
Coffee War
Steve Jobs on Paul Rand
Story Maps
Style Tiles
Abler
Accessible Icon Project
Atomic Design
Slack
Style Guide Generators
Paula Scher

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Less Training, More Practice
Just Do One Thing
Content Strategy 2015 (slide deck)
Experiments in roadmapping at GOV.UK
Why Your Roadmap Should be Flexible
How to switch your identity from content expert to coach (video)

Tim Brown

Dave Rupert

Clicky Image Prototypes

InVision
Flinto

Motion Prototypes

Framer - Prototype Interaction and Animation
Origami - Design prototyping with Quartz Composer

Code Prototypes

CodePen
[Shoptalk] Show page
Jekyll

Pattern Labs

Pattern Lab | Build Atomic Design Systems
Pattern Lab demos

Frameworks

Bootstrap
The Accessibility Project
ZURB Foundation
Ionic
Iconic example

Sharing

Slack
Forward
localtunnel

Books

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan

Demo

Apache Cordova
PhoneGap

Josh Clark

Magic and Technology

Hazards of Prophecy from Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
Alan Kay’s 1982 seminar at Creative Think
Enchanted Objects by David Rose
Deeper insights into the 7th mass media channel (mobile) by Tomi Ahonen
In Search of Objects by Benedict Evans

Mobile and Sensor-Driven UI

Mobile First by Ben Thompson
Word Lens and Google Translate
Nappy Notifier by Huggies

Too Many Screens

Study: average daily smartphone use is over 3 hours
Study: attention drops if smartphone simply visible nearby
Way Out animated film

Magical interaction products/projects

Grab Magic
Happy Together
Neiman Marcus “Memory Mirror”; related CBS news story
Rebecca Minkoff interactive mirror
Dorothy Project
bt.tn and flic magic buttons
Snapshot by Progressive Insurance
Automatic
Propeller Health (formerly Asthmapolis)
ARES military sand table
“Smart Dumb Things” by Argo Design
Room/E by Frog Design
THAW by MIT’s Tangible Media Lab
ColorUp lamp
FotoSwipe
Vessyl and Colbert Report
Baidu’s smart chopsticks
pplkpr
Withings Activité
Mailchimp’s Six Monkeys project
SyFy Sync’s Sharknado experience and the similar Netflix Hue hack
Mega Stomp Battle

Designing for Pre-Attention

Wikipedia: pre-attentive processing
Smart Watches, Wearables, and That Nasty Data Rash by Josh Clark

The Human Element

How smart does your bed have to be, before you are afraid to go to sleep at night? by Rich Gold
Wikipedia: Mechanical Turk automaton chess player
[#IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans]oreilly by Tim O’Reilly

Services and resources

The challenge for web designers in 2015 (or how to cheat at the future) by Richard Pope. A great collection of emerging browser APIs.
IFTTT
Zapier

Also, you can totally get your very own magic-wand remote at The Wand Company.