Small, free, speaking events in Brighton, UK.
There are no people in skillswap’s collective.
We’ve got pretty good at helping people find their way through today’s digital world. Information architecture, taking cues from physical architecture, has built a toolkit of wayfinding aids including menus, breadcrumbs, signage. But things are about to get a lot more interesting.
Talk given by Cennydd Bowles.
This talk will focus on the capital’s nascent wayfinding system, looking at the strategic rationale for a unified tool to support walking in the capital and an update on the development of the system so far.
This is a joint talk by Patricia Brown and Kasper de Graaf.
Jenni Lloyd asks why it actually is that children go to school.
Recorded in Brighton at Skillswap on Speed on Wednesday 29th October 2009.
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Simon Willison on the history of the UK and US airship programmes. With laughs. Seriously.
Recorded in Brighton at Skillswap on Speed on Wednesday 29th October 2009.
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Cathy Jones exploring the concept of tempo within user-experience design.
Recorded in Brighton at Skillswap on Speed on Wednesday 29th October 2009.
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Clearleft’s Cennydd Bowles on why a little personality in technology would go a long way. Recorded in Brighton at Skillswap on Speed on Wednesday 29th October 2009.
A follow-up blog post here: http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2008/why-is-technology-so-dull/.
Whatever we design - products, services, environments, systems - we have an opportunity to influence user behaviour. Bringing together ideas from different disciplines, ‘Design with Intent’ aims to give designers a way of addressing areas where influencing behaviour would provide benefits for users and for society in general - particularly, reducing the environmental impacts of product use. Slides available here: http://bit.ly/Vyn44
Browser support for the typographical aspects of CSS is gradually increasing. Things are on the up.
Richard will be trouncing the myth of web-safe fonts, demonstrating how to go beyond bold, detailing the technicalities of font embedding and exploring the commercial and ethical minefield therein.
The introduction of font embedding in particular is a long-awaited step in the right direction. However it brings with it a host of complications; technical, ethical and aesthetic.
This session will explain all.
Web typography is a toddler in the big bad world of competing displays, browsers and operating systems. Jon takes it by the hand, and discusses the science that comes before the art.
It’ll be a celebration with lots of opportunity for questions and discourse. From exploring how fonts are rendered, to a quick refresher on typesetting and with a little history thrown in for good measure, it’s time to get your glyph on!
With every passing day, we entrust more and more of our personal information to the Internet. And as each week passes, we see more and more online services launching new APIs, opening up the information silos and letting our data flow freely. But some data should not be freely available, merely portable. To do this securely requires that users prove their identity and authority. Typically this is done via username and passwords, or sometimes OpenID. Often, though, users want to appoint computer agents to access and work with their data on their behalf. These agents may not be entirely trusted, and should not be given the user’s logon credentials.
Enter OAuth: an open standard for simple, secure, delegated authorization. With OAuth, a user can give a social network just enough access to their address book to connect them with their friends, or can allow a photo shop access to just the few photos they want printed onto canvases.On the Web of Data, OAuth puts the user back in control.
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