Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart San Francisco 2016
An in-progress compendium of links, resources, and information from the speakers at An Event Apart San Francisco.
Community
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Attendee Write-ups
An Event Apart: Our Favourite Quotes by Scalable Path Sketchnotes by Van Shea Sedita Sketchnotes (on video!) by Carrie Salazar
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
Krystal Higgins
Guided interaction
New users matter too: Guided interaction Using Scaffolded Instruction To Optimize Learning How I got my mom to play plants vs. Zombies Hopscotch: A framework for user-guided tutorials Appcues: A platform for user-guided tutorials Coaching cadence worksheet
Free samples
New users matter too: Free samples Janrain: Customers who leave a website because of or lie on signup forms Phillip Kunz's reciprocity experiment with Christmas cards Sweetening the Till: The Use of Candy to Increase Restaurant Tipping The $300 Million Button Evaluating onboarding experiences
Personal focus
New users matter too: Personal focus Herbert Simon, scientist and psychologist and his work with attention CMU Eberly Center Principles of Teaching How a bot named Dolores Landingham transformed 18F's onboarding
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 Using Feature Queries in CSS Round specification Firefox Nightly
Rachel Andrew
Code Collection of examples used Boring CSS Glish CSS The Noodle Incident Box Lessons Fractal Using Feature Queries in CSS CSS Grid Specification Flexbox Specification Box Alignment Specification CSS Shapes Specification Can I Use Being Where the People Are - a post about vendor prefixes Grid by Example
Jeremy Keith
Links
Design Principles The Extensible Web Manifesto Developer FallaciesService Workers
My First Service Worker Making A Service Worker: A Case Study by Lyza Danger Garnder The Service Worker Lifecycle by Ire Aderinokun An Offline Experience With Service Workers by Brandon Rozek Offline Content With Service Workers by Mike RiethmullerWeb Components
Web Components Responsible Web Components Extensible Web Components Uncomfortably Excited by Alex Russell My Lightning Talk On Web Components by Soledad Penadés Practical Questions Around Web Components by Ian Feather Web Components And Progressive Enhancement by Adam OnishiProgressive Web Apps
Home Screen Regressive Web Apps The Progressive Web App Dev Summit The Imitation Game Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul by Alex Russell The Building Blocks of Progressive Web Apps by Ada Rose Edwards Progressive Web Apps: The Long Game by Remy Sharp What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App? by Alex RussellPeople
Rosalind Franklin, 1920–1958 Margaret Hamilton, 1936– Tim Berners-Lee, 1955– Grace Hopper, 1906–1992 Hedy Lamarr, 1914–2000 Ada Lovelace, 1815–1852 James Burke, 1936– Kevin Kelly, 1952–Papers
Reports and Working Notes on DNA by Rosalind Franklin I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read HTML Design Principles edited by Anne van Kesteren and Maciej Stachowiak Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage by L. F. Menabrea with notes upon the memoir by the translator Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor VingePresentations
The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin @ the CBC Massey Lectures, 1989 The Triumph Of Technology by Lord Sir Alec Broers @ the BBC Reith Lectures, 2005 How Technology Evolves by Kevin Kelly @ TED, 2005 When Ideas Have Sex by Matt Ridley @ TED, 2010 How I Built A Toaster—From Scratch by Thomas Thwaites @ TED, 2010 Admiral Shovel and the Toilet Roll by James Burke @ dConstruct, 2012 Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area by Dan Williams @ dConstruct, 2013 Hypertext As An Agent Of Change by Mandy Brown @ dConstruct 2014 The Humane Representation Of Thought by Bret Victor @ the UIST and SPLASH conferences, 2014 Our Comrade The Electron by Maciej Cegłowski @ Webstock, 2014 Step Off This Hurtling Machine by Alex Feyerke @ JSConf.au, 2014 The Moral Economy of Tech by Maciej Cegłowski @ the Sociecty For The Advancement Of Socio-Economics, 2016Books
The Real World Of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World by Steven Johnson 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu by Kenji Kawakami The Toaster Project (Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch) by Thomas Thwaites Connections by James BurkeVal Head
The UI Animation Newsletter Designing Interface Animation Researching Design Systems Integrating animation into the UX workflow Design Doesn't Scale Pixar storyboards
Jason Grigsby
Hololens Gestures Leap Motion Oculus Rift tour Microsoft Research Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction 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 Pointing the Way Forward Compass.js Warby Parker Gyroscope Example Lightsaber Escape Gyroscope Example Generic Sensor API Draft requestAutocomplete Autofill: What web devs should know, but don't Payment Request API Web Cam Toy HTML Media Capture and getUserMedia Web Speech API Demonstration Web Speech API Translation Demonstration Web Bluetooth Physical Web One amazing video that shows the potential of the physical web Open Device Labs Four Truths About Input ALA: Adapting to Input
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
Gerry McGovern
Top Tasks explained (A List Apart) Customer Carewords Top Tasks Services Gerry McGovern's website Transform: A Rebel's Guide for Digital Transformation (Gerry's latest book)