minnewebcon
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7th annual MinneWebCon.
- "Two days of grassroots knowledge sharing for people who create, work with and love the web"
- Yes, great conversations about the web are going on in your state.
Design, User Experience, Development...
University of minnesota
McNamara Alumni Center
Beautiful architecture
Lots of food!
keynote takeaway
"Spock-like things in a Kirk-like world"
- Speaker Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor
- how the rational world of tech melds with messy world of humanity
- creates our present and shape our future
- We sell socio-technical systems, not technology
- Technology that works with our current humanity
SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM?
- Technologies succeed or don't succeed based on how
they fit into our lives. - We are ready for the technologies that succeed.
phones
- Phone > cel phones > computers
- laid the foundation for smart phones.
light
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1802, Humphrey Davy created the first electric light.
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Our knowledge of materials needed to develop as did your electrical infrastructure. We weren't using a lot...
- The "commercially practical" lightbulb was created by Edison in 1879.
how does this relate to web design
We've reached a pont where we are creating tools to make web design and dev easier
Frameworks
- Come out of doing the same thing over and over again. Eventually you want to create a tool to do it for you.
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Session on Angular.js - a framework to create single page applications that runs in the browser
- Some frameworks such as this have steep learning curve, but pay off with long-term productivity
single page application
More TOOLS TO MAKE THINGS EASIER
Content Management Systems
- Come out of doing the same thing over and over again. Eventually you want to create a tool to do it for you.
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Session on Component based design from the folks at Drupalize.me.
- Creating themes and patterns by analyzing the page in terms of recurring components and not content.
component pattern
the conference
Silos connecting with each other
Conversations about design, technology, and user experience
silos connect across disciplines
Writing Content That Works Across Devices
Front End Development for Back End Developers
Programmers Can UX, Too
Collaborative Design for Everyone
PHP for Web Designers
Front End Development for Back End Developers
Programmers Can UX, Too
Collaborative Design for Everyone
PHP for Web Designers
minnewebcon
siloed experiences
Component Based Web Design (CMS)
Back to basics user experienceThe ADA and Websites
API Frameworks - Angular.js - Javascript
Language extenders - CSS , LESS and SASS
HTML5 Games with Canvas
HTML5 Mobile App Development
technology take-aways
Line between design and developer getting fuzzy
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CSS Precompilers asked to access the terminal
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Programming fundamentals being used - variables, classes
- Philosophies - OOCSS, Mobile First
- Extension Languages - SASS, LESS
- Take time to learn frameworks - save time
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Frameworks - Angular.js,
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CMS - Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla etc...
minnewebcon
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