Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018
2018-05-07..2018-05-09
Düsseldorf, Germany
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as the organisers put it
beyond tellerrand is an affordable event about web design, development, creativity, design and much more.
who it's for
web designers, front-end developers, accessibility specialists, creative coders, interaction designers, creative technologists, installation artists
topics
W3C Web Annotation standard; ARIA-driven accessibility patterns; WebVTT plus TTS captions pipeline; CSS Grid and Susy systems; Processing-driven generative art; laser cutting and 3D printing; found-object interactive installations; robotic characters with deep learning; data-driven live visualizations; design-for-non-designers workflows
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Tinker Story | Dina Amin | 45m |
Takes everyday junk apart on Instagram, shows the exact mechanisms and stop‑motion workflow used to animate them, and proves the project funds itself through… | ||
| Web Annotation: The Web’s Conversation Layer | Lyza Danger Gardner | 39m |
A concrete protocol and data model now exist: the W3C Web Annotation standard defines a model, a vocabulary and a protocol, serialized as JSON‑LD or embedded… | ||
| From World War 1 to Fast & Furious Live | Kate Dawkins | 36m |
Kate has designed and directed content projected onto a floor of ice, the ceiling of the London Design Museum, the bridge of the USS intrepid in NY and put… | ||
| In the Brink of Consciousness | Jan De Coster | 44m |
Projects present concrete builds and outcomes: Yummie is made in four weeks from pots pans and store parts and moves into a family home; a promotional flame… | ||
| Broad Band – What History’s Female Internet Pioneers can Teach us about Tomorrow | Claire L. Evans | 40m |
Claims that women built foundational Internet work gets specific evidence: human computers at Harvard catalog 10,000 stars and Annie Jump Cannon classifies… | ||
| Hidden in plain view: Bleeding edge accessibility so good you never noticed | Karl Groves | 55m |
Showcases concrete wins: an easy access keypad that makes public kiosks self-voicing with an SDK and physical reach zones; a working audio‑description pattern… | ||
| The Importance of Failing Successfully | Wesley Grubbs | 37m |
Pitch Interactive describes 23+ years of practice and shows exact artifacts: a 4x5 array of 55‑inch HD TVs with 36 touch points, a shelved California reservoir… | ||
| No Effing Failure | Vic Lee | 44m |
Begins drawing with pens and Macromedia FreeHand then teaches self screen printing, makes limited-edition prints, rides a hand-drawn Brompton into a… | ||
| The Dangers of Being a Web Developer | Jens Oliver Meiert | 43m |
Claims that practice beats blind automation: one project is maintained 38‑language site by hand to force learning, and small contributions like fixing typos… | ||
| How to Build an Atomic Bomb | Mike Monteiro | 55m |
Claim: major social platforms are literal bombs — built tools (Twitter, Facebook) that monetize abuse and amplify harm while enriching owners. Evidence… | ||
| Design for Non-Designers | Tracy Osborn | 38m |
Shows practical shortcuts: use line things up with simple grids (CSS grid or frameworks like food strap), pick palettes from color mine IO or Google's material… | ||
| Don't Use My Grid System (or any others) | Miriam E Suzanne | 48m |
Built a grid system called Susy meta grid-system in Sass but stopped using it five years ago, then prototypes a CSS-only version; shows working examples with… | ||
| Generative Spaces | Jared Tarbell | 01h 02m |
Generative programs run in Processing and drive a laser cutter to turn pixel rules into physical cubes and cardboard spheres that sometimes fall apart; a 2×2… | ||
| Warm-Up Talk: ARIA Serious? | Eric Eggert | 18m |
Claim: ARIA fixes gaps but breaks more sites when misused, and there are five practical rules to follow. Concrete failures include role=button on headings… | ||
| Warm-Up Talk: Reanimating the Web | Rob Bateman | 20m |
An open-source runtime resurrects SWF content by combining WebGL and TypeScript for accelerated rendering, adds on-the-fly tessellation to turn vector art into… | ||
| Warm-Up Talk: Perceptions of Pair Programming | Amber Wilson | 23m |
Argues that pair programming produces concrete outcomes: faster competency, more robust code, fewer knowledge islands and shared ownership. Describes using… | ||
| Warm-Up Talk: Browser APIs – the unknown Super Heroes | Rowdy Rabouw | 23m |
Live demos show concrete behavior: the Battery Status API returns level, charging state and events (demo glitches with "infinite seconds" when unplugged); the… | ||
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