AEA Resources: Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart San Diego 2015
An in-progress compendium of links, resources, and information from the speakers at An Event Apart San Diego.
Community
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Speaker Links and Resources
Tim Brown
Introduction
@nicewebtype Typekit: Source Sans Typekit: Adelle Marcin Wichary: Death to Typewriters
Performance
Dan Mall on performance budgets “Performance is the new validation.” — Jeremy Keith @ 33:36 Nathan Ford: Adventures in Dynamic Subsetting Font Family Reunion compatibility tables Typekit blog: Custom language subsetting options 8 Faces issue #8 Bram Stein on font loading at Webfontday @ 9:29 Spritz reading Luke Wroblewski: Switch between reading and listening Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy
Force
Method of Action: Kerntype, by Mark MacKay John Downer's Proportions and Hierarchies workshop Tobias Frere-Jones Typekit Practice: Selecting typefaces for body text, by Tim Brown Typekit Practice: Getting the most out of type specimens, by Aura Seltzer A Book Apart: On Web Typography, by Jason Santa Maria Typographica: Type Reviews Klim Type Foundry: Design Information The State of Web Type, by Bram Stein The Shape of Design, by Frank Chimero Flippant, by Nathan Ford Clay in a Potter's Hand, an essay by Jan Tschichold
Anchoring
Five Simple Steps: A Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces, by Tim Brown Fonts In Use Ethan Marcotte: Sizing the legible letter Chris Coyier: Font size idea Modular Scale calculator, by Scott Kellum and Tim Brown Molten Leading Inside Paragraphs, by Cyrus Highsmith Single-direction margin declarations, by Harry Roberts Deriving layout from your typeface, by Nathan Ford
Systems
Setting type with Sass maps, by Robin Rendle Susan Robertson: Creating a type style guide Typecast Progressive enhancement matrix Font events at Typekit Type rendering mix
Context
Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle Universal Typography demo, by Tim Brown
Brad Frost
Jason Grigsby
Responsive Images 101
Img Required
Srcset Display Density
Srcset Width Descriptors
Sizes
Picture Element
Type
CSS Images
Additional explanations and background
Built-in Browser Support for Responsive Images
Native Responsive Images
Don't use <picture> (most of the time)
When to use <picture> for resolution switching
How the Browser Pre-loader Makes Pages Load Faster
Who initiates image downloads?
Can I Use: Picture
Using WEBP/JPEG 2000/JPEG-XR/APNG Now With Picturefill and Modernizr
Can I Use: image-set
Sensible jumps in responsive image file sizes
Tools and resources
Drupal 8 Picture Module
WordPress RICG Responsive Images Plugin
Spreadsheet of image resizing services
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
The Muse of the Future Is Here by Robinson Meyer
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
Understanding Apple Watch with Jen Simmons and Josh Clark
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
Amazon Dash Button
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 by Tim O'Reilly
Of Nerve and Imagination by Josh Clark
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
Too Many Screens
Study: average daily smartphone use is over 3 hours
Study: attention drops if smartphone simply visible nearby
Way Out animated film
Understanding Apple Watch with Jen Simmons and Josh Clark
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
Amazon Dash Button
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 by Tim O'Reilly
Of Nerve and Imagination by Josh Clark
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
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 by Tim O'Reilly
Of Nerve and Imagination by Josh Clark
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
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.
IBM After Dark
People FirstDan Mall
OmmWriter nvALT The Magical, Short-Form Creative Brief, by Jared Spool Interface Inventory, by Brad Frost Radio Free Europe: An open redesign, by Dan Mall WebPagetest Fast Enough, by Tim Kadlec HTTP Archive Visual Inventory, by Dan Mall Reading Is Fundamental open redesign Visual Design Explorations, by Paul Lloyd Inventing on Principle, by Bret Victor Creative Cloud Libraries, by Dan Mall Pattern Lab Michael Jackson's Beat It a capellaJen Simmons
The Web Ahead Demo for this talk Code for this talk The Original Pizzahut.com Space Jam Microsoft's 1994 homepage BBC News Politics 97 The September Issue Can I Use Adobe's CSS Shapes Gallery at CodePen CSS Shapes Extension for Chrome Tutorial on how to use the CSS Shapes Extension by Razvan Caliman (who created it) The Web Ahead 81: Changing the Shapes with Sara Soueidan Vote for Shapes - Microsoft Vote for Shapes - Mozilla Opera Mini Multicolumn layout in the wild: Tim Berner's Lee article "Judy Blume Knows All Your Secrets," NYTimes Magazine Cover Sheet example Jen's Experiment with Viewport Units CSS Trick's Complete Guide to Flexbox Flexbox running on Chrome Dev Site Rachael Andrew on CSS Grid Mark Boulton on The Web Ahead Nathan Ford's article on layout Gridset Karen McGrane's Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content Bill Cunningham New YorkKevin M. Hoffman
Play Nintendo
Understanding
Context by Andrew Hinton
Accelerate! by John
Kotter
Livia Labate
on the Marriott Responsive Redesign, Responsive Design Podcast
Ryan Shafer on
the MTV Responsive Redesign, Responsive Design Podcast (launches on
April 6, 2015)
The
Future is Podular by Dave Gray
Boardthing
Humble
Inquiry by Edgar Schien
Meetings: The
Canary in the Culture Coal Mine by Kevin M. Hoffman
The Value Proposition Design Canvases
and Companion
New
DOT Rules Make Flying Easier for Passengers with Disabilities