Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Seattle 2016

An in-progress compendium of links, resources, and information from the speakers at An Event Apart Seattle.

Community

An Event Apart Facebook An Event Apart Google+ @aneventapart Twitter feed An Event Apart Seattle Eventifier Feed: follow along live, in words and pictures Twitter Search: #aeasea (AEA Seattle hashtag) A Groove Apart: Ten Years of AEA in Playlist Form AEA Seattle photos by J-J de Roover AEA Seattle photos by Zeldman

Speaker Links and Resources

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)

Jeremy Keith

Books

The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage, 01998

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner, 01996
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, 01999
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, 01979

References

On Distributed Communications by Paul Baran, 01964

Transmission Control Protocol by Jon Postel, 01980
WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project by Tim Berners-Lee, 01990
The Rise of the Stupid Network by David S. Isenberg, 01997
Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture by Vint Cerf, et al, 02007
There is a Horse in the Apple Store by Frank Chimero, 02010

Resources

Submarine Cable Map by Telegeography

Everyone Has JavaScript, Right? by Stuart Langridge
Government Service Design Manual
Introduction to Service Worker by Matt Gaunt
The Offline Cookbook by Jake Archibald

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

Val Head

To Keep Up On Web Animation and Motion Design

The UI Animation Newsletter

To Read Up on Classic Animation Principles

The Illusions of Life Book The Animator's Survival Guide TED-Ed video - The art of timing and spacing

Helpful research, examples, tools and articles

UI Animation and UX: A Not-So-Secret Friendship Easings.net Cubic-bezier.com Google Web Fundamentals - Choosing the right easing Motion & Meaning Ep 4: Playing Director with Choreography IBM's Machines in Motion Meaningful Transitions

A Few Sources For Inspiration

Art of The Title capptivate.co All The Right Moves Use Your Interface

Cameron Moll

Kevin Spacey speaking at Edinburgh TV Festival ‘Ish' by Brad Frost The fastest-growing mobile phone markets barely use apps Google: The New Multi-Screen World Study Mail to Self iOS extension No one's forgotten how to pinch and zoom Switching Between Devices Normal for 40% of U.S. Web Users [Facebook Study] Web Apps & Web Views

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

Lara Hogan

Designing for Performance (the book)

HTML format (free to read!) Buy print & ebook formats

Studies

Google, Amazon case studies HTTP Archive's "Interesting Stats" average breakdown of assets Reducing image sizes (blurring JPEG study) Semantics/repurposability clean up study Battery life consumption study Mobile-only internet usage Taming the Mobile Beast Seth Walker's A Public Commitment to Performance Brad Frost's Performance as Design

Tools and Techniques

WebPageTest ImageOptim ImageOptim CLI Wordpress plugin SVG scrubber and another one SmushIT FontSquirrel Font Generator Picturefill Tutorial on creating videos of web performance