An Event Apart is a web conference produced by my web Gods, the rock stars of web design. This is who I listen to. This is who I learn from. This is who is shaping the future of the web.
An Event Apart is taking place in Atlanta and I always feel sadness when I can’t attend. Well, I could attend for a $1400 price tag. Maybe next year.
The best thing I can do is listen on Twitter #aeaatl. Thank you to all the people willing to tweet from the conference so those of us on the outside can catch a glimpse of what we should be paying attention to right now. This is my new reading list.
Following along on Twitter, these are the big pointers I learned from #aeaatl:
LINKS
- http://www.flickr.com/groups/aeaatlanta13/pool/
- http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/getting-started-ress
- http://www.modern.ie/en-us
- http://alistapart.com/article/holygrail
- http://positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/
- http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1683
- http://css-tricks.com/viewport-sized-typography/
Read up on Flexbox:
- http://caniuse.com/flexbox
- http://css-tricks.com/old-flexbox-and-new-flexbox/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Using_CSS_flexible_boxes
- http://css-tricks.com/using-flexbox/
Good performance is good design.
I move stuff around on a page until it looks right.
agh! iLl1 0o
All desktop designs have to be touch-friendly now (44px vertical rythm):
- http://globalmoxie.com/blog/desktop-touch-design.shtml
- Content at top, controls at the bottom; Nav at the bottom of mobile.
- Thumb Zone.
- Screen size is a lousy way to detect touch friendly.
- “As screens got larger, people saw it as permission for adding more crap
DAY TWO
The best collection of aggregated data about this specific conference:
http://eventifier.co/event/aea13/videos
Various links, reading, images out of Twitter:
- http://adactio.com/journal/tags/aeaatl/
- http://spirit.adactio.com/
- http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1689
- http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1688
- http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1687
- http://www.betabrand.com/ (from Aarron Walters, I just might want to buy something)
- http://styletil.es/
- http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/tech-predictions-for-2013-its-all-about-mobile/?ref=technology
- http://aarronwalter.com/speaker/realme/
- http://voiceandtone.com/
