{"type":"blog","id":"2013/2013-11-21-melbourne-geek-night-nov-2013","title":"Melbourne Geek night Nov 2013","url":"/blog/2013/2013-11-21-melbourne-geek-night-nov-2013","summary":"It seems as the year draws to an end, we&39;re having some of the best talks! Damn Christmas&hellip;","date":"2013-11-21","tags":["Melbourne","Web","Design","Devices"],"categories":["tech"],"body":"It seems as the year draws to an end, we&#39;re having some of the best talks! Damn Christmas&hellip;\n\n<strong>Web for TV, Sam Buckley</strong><br />Smart TV&#39;s don&#39;t do anything well. 33% of Australians have one only 5% browse the web on them, but a high amount for app type functionality.<br />Distance between viewer and device is an issue? Also interfaces are unattractive, lack of know how, not enough content, slow speed.<br />There&#39;s a lack of UX on TV(!) and the Internet is still a very text input reliant, with input devices still needing a lot of thought and work It&#39;s a lean back experience, with even more device sizing issues\n\n<em>Should we worry about it?</em><ul><li>TV media type in media queries not even supported by most TV&#39;s Feature queries are the future path, or dirty user agent sniffing</li><li>Still... Be prepared for it. Design for large screens, distance and vertical scrolling vs wide screen, especially with a remote. Bear in mind performance and use simple navigation</li><li>Look at <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/tv/android/docs/gtv_android_patterns\" target=\"_blank\">Google TV design documents</a> and <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/tv/device-considerations/designing-for-tv/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a> for more detail</li><li>Good examples apple TV, xbox 1, steam big picture</li><li>Prepare for new input devices -&nbsp; gesture, voice, biometrics</li></ul>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>A dose of CSS animations and transitions! Jayden Seric</strong><br />Are animations relevant in a business sense, are they still a bit tacky?\n\n<em>Tools to make creating animations an transitions really easy:</em><ul><li><a href=\"https://sass-lang.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sass</a></li><li><a href=\"https://bourbon.io/\" target=\"_blank\">Bourbon</a></li><li><a href=\"https://daneden.me/animate/\" target=\"_blank\">animate.css</a></li></ul>\n\nThe difference between animations and transitions (filling in vs keyframes)\n\nTwo other nuggets that came out of the talk and made me feel really old in Tech terms&hellip; Flash is now considered old?! and the phrase&nbsp;&quot;It&#39;s only a Google away&quot;.\n\n<strong>Where&#39;s my jet pack, Nic Hodges</strong><br />A fascinating talk that&#39;s a little hard to summarise, so I might just whack in a bunch of links and points for thought&hellip;\n\nThe future we didn&#39;t imagine From a cultural perspective.<ul><li>Innovation doesn&#39;t come in big leaps, but small steps. This is ok.</li><li>We&#39;re not leaning into the future - creating a focus for innovation (space race, the year 2000)</li><li>Not much vision beyond now, determinate optimism</li><li>Were losing positive inefficiencies things that happened due to efficient restructuring, universities as an example, what&#39;s the real benefit.</li><li>Be aware of disruption</li><li>We&#39;re returning to a peer to peer culture from small to large and back again. Mobility and multiplicity</li><li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson\" target=\"_blank\">Freeman dyson</a></li><li><a href=\"https://cir.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">circa</a></li><li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken\"  target=\"_blank\">Howard Aiken</a></li><li><a href=\"https://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/gutenberg_parenthesis.html\"  target=\"_blank\">Thomas pettitt</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.rushkoff.com/\"  target=\"_blank\">Douglas rushkoff</a></li></ul>","links":[],"fields":{}}