Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart DC 2016
An in-progress compendium of links, resources, and information from the speakers at An Event Apart DC.
Community
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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
Sarah Parmenter
May Day, May Day (zeldman.com) A Fireside Chat with Jen Simmons & Jeffrey Zeldman Facebook Audience Insights Building a Visual Language: Behind the scenes of our new design system (Airbnb) The Way We Build: How rethinking the Airbnb app changed the way we approach design Voice & Tone: Success Message Vox Syria's war: a 5-minute history Serial Frank Body OO#2 – frank Body Scrub interview Frank Body (frank_bod) on Instagram Frank Body on Pinterest Victoria (inthefrow) on Instagram Gary Vaynerchuk (garyvee) on Instagram marie forleo: B-School studio.zeldman Luke Wroblewski (lukew) on Twitter
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
Val Head
To Keep Up On Web Animation and Motion Design
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
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 Round specification Firefox Nightly
Kevin M. Hoffman
When planning meetings early in a larger process, think about agenda content that manages assumptions. For example, if working with personas, Indi Young has a great approach.
Drawings with simple diagrams with short phrases eliminate ambiguity and surface critical decisions. Learn from the master, David Sibbett.
Afraid to draw in meetings? Learn the visual alphabet, and more, from Sunni Brown.
Storytelling is a powerful way to structure a presentation. Learn more about good story structure from Donna Lichaw in her new book.
Is a Lean Coffee an amazing new drink? Nope. But it's a great way to run a meeting without preparing an agenda in advance.
Ever wonder why people are afraid of ideas that feel “too creative” in meetings, even though they want you to come up with “game changers?” It's probably the creativity bias.
Meetings at the end of a process can be really tough and filled with blame. That's why ETSY makes them “blameless.”
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
Karen McGrane
Responsive versus adaptive is not a thing Beyond Responsive Design: How to Optimize Your Website for Mobile Users Moving Beyond the Responsive Web to the Adaptive Web Beyond Responsive and Adaptive: Introducing “Adjustive” Web Design 2014 State of the Union for Mobile Web Performance 9 basic principles of responsive web design Liquidapsive Modern Design Tools: Adaptive Layouts Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Which Is Best for Publishers? Mixing Responsive Design and Mobile Templates Responsive Web Design Podcast: Codepen A Mobile Responsive Landing Page Is Crushing Your Conversion Rate Responsive Web Design Podcast: NPR Responsive design is failing mobile UX The State Of Mobile Apps For Retailers 2014 Mobile Behavior Report Netflix, you don't know diddly about context! Analyzing The Value Of Responsive Web Design Can Be Messy Embrace Responsive+ Web Design