James Bridle – Waving at the Machines
James will discuss the architecture of datacenters, the subjectivity of Google Street View, and the pixelation of everything, in an attempt to calibrate our new position in the world.
Tag: innovation
Martin Tomitsch – Using the world as a canvas
The session will draw on research projects and visions of the future to sketch out the possibilities of this new design space, and how current web practices can be translated into a future where using the world as a canvas will change information visualisation and access all over again.
Luke Dearnley & Sebastian Chan – Culture + citizens + digital heritage
In a fireside chat, Seb and Luke from the Powerhouse Museum will talk candidly about some of the current challenges and future directions in this space — and how you might be able to help.
Rob Manson – Web standards based Augmented Reality
This presentation aims to document the AR standardisation efforts over the last few years as well as what’s possible right now and in the near future from a distinctly web-based perspective.
Scott Bryant & Simon Wright – Designing for change and disruption
Change is never a smooth process. How do know when disruption is useful and how do you cope with the feedback on it?
Mike Kuniavsky – Design [in|for|and] the age of ubiquitous computing
This talk will discuss where ubiquitous computing is today, some changes we can already see happening, and how we can begin to think about the implications of these technologies for design, for business and for the world at large.
Dmitry Baranovskiy – How to be a Web Sorcerer
Do you want to change the Web, not just build it? Do you want to know the secret spells? Do you want to know the source of all this unlimited power? Come and find out.
John Allsopp – The Dao of Web Design Revisited
So, ten years later, what does John now think about his thesis, and his suggestions for developers?
Anne Galloway – A 21st Century Bestiary
In this talk, Anne will discuss the role that animals have played in shaping the Web so far, how the Web is enabling new ways of interacting with animals, and what we might expect from a future of human-animal-computer interaction.
Hannah Donovan – Designing without the browser
After a decade of honing our newfangled browser-based skills, learn how to dust off and sharpen the tools of our roots.
Andrew Fisher – How the web is going physical
When it comes to the “Internet of Things”, web designers and developers are uniquely placed to create, connect and produce innovative new ways for these devices to be used.
Jeremy Ashkenas – A Cup of CoffeeScript
After a lost decade in the wilderness, JavaScript is starting to change and evolve. We’ll look at CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles into JavaScript, providing concise ways to to write many common JavaScript patterns.
Tom Coates – Opening keynote: A New Network
It’s time to recognise the scale of the project we have in front of us, the breadth of the material we have to work with, and the possibilities of design within it. All of human knowledge, creativity—even the planet itself—is our canvas.
Michael Mahemoff – HTML5 offline for fun and performance
In this session we’ll get hands-on with the application cache to make the app run when it’s not online. We’ll check out the techniques for client-side persistence: web storage and indexed database. Finally, we’ll look at the latest techniques for file access — reading and writing files on the user’s hard drive from a web app is being defined by web standards and implemented in today’s modern browsers.
Bruce Lawson – Native multimedia with HTML5
We’ll look at the pros and the cons of HTML5 multimedia and see how to write simple controls with JavaScript. Most excitingly, we’ll also look at how HTML5 builds in support for subtitles and captions for multimedia accessibility. And you might pick up a Turkish dancing tip on the way.
