Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Orlando 2018

An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart Orlando 2018.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Beyond Engagement: the Content Performance Quotient
No More FAQs: Create Purposeful Information for a More Effective User Experience by Lisa Wright
The King vs. Pawn Game of UI Design by Erik Kennedy
Why Performance Matters by Jeremy Wagner
Marlboro Man (Wikipedia)
@DesignCPQ on Twitter
Performance: Showing Versus Telling by Laura Hogan
Planning for Performance by Scott Jehl
We need design that is faster and design that is slower.
Art Direction and the Web by Stephen Hay
Large Type: One Web Designer Puts Content First in a Big Way by Anthony Wing Kosner
Authoritative, Readable, Branded: Report From Poynter Design Challenge, Part 2
To Save Real News
The Big Web Show № 171: Art Directing the News – with ProPublica Design Director David Sleight
Top Task Management: Making it Easier to Prioritize by Gerry McGovern—An Event Apart video
Organizing Mobile by Luke Wroblewski
Redesigning in Public Again
The Year in Design

Sarah Parmenter

Rachel Andrew

Eric Meyer

CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3
Picture credit: Innerbelt Bridge by Erik Drost, used under the terms of CC BY 2.0; minor straightening and color enhancement applied
CSS:TDG4e Table of Contents
CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1
Speaker pages:
An Event Apart San Francisco 2018 store page (note: page will expire December 2018)
CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
How We Adopted CSS Grid at Scale

Jen Simmons

Una Kravets

Design Systems

Resources

Tooling

Dan Mall

Kristina Halvorson

Jason Pamental

Fonts In Use

Roslindale by DJR
FF Meta by Monotype
Avenir Next by Monotype (it's an earlier beta, but open to download)
Cera Pro by Typemates (variable font is a beta, but you should ask them about it and tell 'em I sent ya)
Amstelvar by Type Network
Bello Write by Underware

Trent Walton

Aarron Walter

Josh Clark

More on this topic from Josh

Context

Benedict Evans: Ways to think about machine learning
MIT Technology Review: Machine Learning: The New Proving Ground for Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business Review: In the AI age, “being smart” will mean something completely different
Kranzberg’s laws (PDF)

Example applications

Slack topic search: A new way to discover and connect with just the right teammates
The Washington Post’s robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year
Automated Journalism – AI Applications at New York Times, Reuters, and Other Media Giants
Google Forms: No Machine Learning in your product? Start here
Post-It Plus app captures Post-Its in digital form
CycleGAN transforms photos of apples into oranges, horses into zebras

Robot designers: AI for design and code

Machine learning APIs and data sets

Customize or construct your own model

Lobe (user-friendly visual interface)
Google Cloud AutoML
Microsoft Custom Vision

Open-source data sets

Designing for speech interfaces

Awni Hannun: Speech recognition is not solved
Benedict Evans: Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
Cooper: Talking to machines is primitive and frustrating, but it's gonna be huge

Mental models and opaque logic

MIT Technology Review: The dark secret at the heart of AI
Ralph Ammer: Make me think! The design of complexity

Surveillance capitalism

Vicki Boykis: What should you think about when using Facebook?
Digital Content Next: Google data collection research
Gizmodo: Facebook is giving advertisers access to your shadow contact information

Designing to counter misinformation, error and bias

Manner and language as cues for confidence and interaction

Wikipedia: Paralanguage
Amazon: Alexa speechcons
Google: Google Duplex
Jeremy Keith: Google duplicitous

Machine ethics

The Juvet Agenda
Book by Cennydd Bowles: Future Ethics
Mike Loukides: The ethics of artificial intelligence
Genevieve Bell: From human-computer interactions to human-computer relationships
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation

Jeffrey Zeldman

Beyond Engagement: the Content Performance Quotient
No More FAQs: Create Purposeful Information for a More Effective User Experience by Lisa Wright
The King vs. Pawn Game of UI Design by Erik Kennedy
Why Performance Matters by Jeremy Wagner
Marlboro Man (Wikipedia)
@DesignCPQ on Twitter
Performance: Showing Versus Telling by Laura Hogan
Planning for Performance by Scott Jehl
We need design that is faster and design that is slower.
Art Direction and the Web by Stephen Hay
Large Type: One Web Designer Puts Content First in a Big Way by Anthony Wing Kosner
Authoritative, Readable, Branded: Report From Poynter Design Challenge, Part 2
To Save Real News
The Big Web Show № 171: Art Directing the News – with ProPublica Design Director David Sleight
Top Task Management: Making it Easier to Prioritize by Gerry McGovern—An Event Apart video
Organizing Mobile by Luke Wroblewski
Redesigning in Public Again
The Year in Design

Sarah Parmenter

Rachel Andrew

Eric Meyer

CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3
Picture credit: Innerbelt Bridge by Erik Drost, used under the terms of CC BY 2.0; minor straightening and color enhancement applied
CSS:TDG4e Table of Contents
CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1
Speaker pages:
An Event Apart San Francisco 2018 store page (note: page will expire December 2018)
CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
How We Adopted CSS Grid at Scale

Jen Simmons

Una Kravets

Design Systems

Resources

Tooling

Dan Mall

Kristina Halvorson

Jason Pamental

Fonts In Use

Roslindale by DJR
FF Meta by Monotype
Avenir Next by Monotype (it's an earlier beta, but open to download)
Cera Pro by Typemates (variable font is a beta, but you should ask them about it and tell 'em I sent ya)
Amstelvar by Type Network
Bello Write by Underware

Trent Walton

Aarron Walter

Josh Clark

More on this topic from Josh

Context

Benedict Evans: Ways to think about machine learning
MIT Technology Review: Machine Learning: The New Proving Ground for Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business Review: In the AI age, “being smart” will mean something completely different
Kranzberg’s laws (PDF)

Example applications

Slack topic search: A new way to discover and connect with just the right teammates
The Washington Post’s robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year
Automated Journalism – AI Applications at New York Times, Reuters, and Other Media Giants
Google Forms: No Machine Learning in your product? Start here
Post-It Plus app captures Post-Its in digital form
CycleGAN transforms photos of apples into oranges, horses into zebras

Robot designers: AI for design and code

Machine learning APIs and data sets

Customize or construct your own model

Lobe (user-friendly visual interface)
Google Cloud AutoML
Microsoft Custom Vision

Open-source data sets

Designing for speech interfaces

Awni Hannun: Speech recognition is not solved
Benedict Evans: Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
Cooper: Talking to machines is primitive and frustrating, but it's gonna be huge

Mental models and opaque logic

MIT Technology Review: The dark secret at the heart of AI
Ralph Ammer: Make me think! The design of complexity

Surveillance capitalism

Vicki Boykis: What should you think about when using Facebook?
Digital Content Next: Google data collection research
Gizmodo: Facebook is giving advertisers access to your shadow contact information

Designing to counter misinformation, error and bias

Manner and language as cues for confidence and interaction

Wikipedia: Paralanguage
Amazon: Alexa speechcons
Google: Google Duplex
Jeremy Keith: Google duplicitous

Machine ethics

The Juvet Agenda
Book by Cennydd Bowles: Future Ethics
Mike Loukides: The ethics of artificial intelligence
Genevieve Bell: From human-computer interactions to human-computer relationships
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation