FITC Toronto 2016
2016-04-17..2016-04-19
Toronto, Canada
[FITC Toronto 2014, FITC Toronto 2015, FITC Toronto 2016, FITC Toronto 2017, FITC Toronto 2019]
who it's for
front end developers, React developers, UX designers, creative technologists, Angular developers, interaction designers, web designers, animators
topics
React component patterns; React with SVG; Angular 2 migration strategies; advanced DOM APIs; design prototyping workflows; cognitive design techniques; virtual reality storytelling; tactile media and haptics; javascript ecosystem tooling; lean UX for agile teams; diversity and inclusion in tech; creative driven business operations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| I Heard React Was Good | Ryan Christiani | 34m |
A candid run-through of why React is just a view layer and how it is actually used: a team replaces Jekyll flat notes with a modular chalk notes system built… | ||
| A New Era for Animators | Paul Trani | 37m |
Adobe replaces Flash Pro with Animate CC and claims it opens existing FLA files and publishes to SWF, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, SVG, OAM and 4K video; CC Libraries… | ||
| Real World Designing and Prototyping | Paul Trani | 45m |
Adobe releases Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview) and demonstrates a working Mac app that designs, prototypes and shares without switching tools: vector… | ||
| PageCloud Reimagines The Future of Website Creation | Craig Fitzpatrick | 37m |
PageCloud claims a browser WYSIWYG editor that eliminates hand-coding, launched publicly 2015 and now serving 15,000 paying customers in 90 countries. It… | ||
| Prolific Minded | Ash Thorp | 49m |
Ash will be discussing his goals as a creative person. How he dreams big and puts forth optimism, hard work, and focus to obtain his goals. He will break… | ||
| Talking VR Turkey | Denis Lirette, J. Lee Williams, Blair Renaud, Elli Raynai, Ana Serrano | 48m |
Shows how presence actually arises: seeing tracked hands and legs in paper DVR and accurate body-to-vision mapping, a shooting method that forces viewer motion… | ||
| Creative Coding with React & SVG | Varun Vachhar | 36m |
Claims that React & SVG let DOM composability meet Canvas/WebGL level control and shows exactly how: path strings are built from path data as JS arrays… | ||
| Migrating to Angular 2 | Rob McDiarmid | 44m |
Demonstrates a hands‑on incremental migration from Angular 1 to Angular 2 by refactoring a small image‑sharing app, replacing $watch with declarative bindings… | ||
| Embedding Cognitive Innovation in Design | Graham Churchill, Anton McConville, Sabaa Quao, Tanya Collier MacDonald, Yulia Vasilyeva, Rick Goldberg | 48m |
Panel reports concrete results: Watson and Bluemix power experiments across retail, PR and media with 150 Bluemix services (dialog, personality insights, tone… | ||
| Accumulations | Nicholas Felton | 46m |
For the past decade, Nicholas Felton has methodically captured and shared his life in a series of projects collectively known as the Feltron Annual Reports… | ||
| DownTheRabbitHole.js – How to Stay Sane in an Insane Ecosystem | Branden Hall | 45m |
Evaluation focuses on concrete choices and results: the project targets ES6 transpiled with Babel, bundled with webpack, using React + Redux + lodash for… | ||
| The Ultimate Branding Tool Box | Johnny Cupcakes | 54m |
Built a bakery‑themed T‑shirt business that proves tactics beat buzz: a $130 pin press on eBay turns into “hundreds of thousands” in revenue, trade shows and… | ||
| DOM Features You Didn’t Know Existed | Louis Lazaris | 47m |
Shows concrete DOM methods and what they actually return and change: insertAdjacentHTML, getBoundingClientRect, dataset, scrollIntoView, contains, normalize… | ||
| From All Sides: An Honest Conversation About Women In Technology | Irene Pereyra, Stacey Mulcahy, Catt Small, Pearl Chen, Kim Alpert | 45m |
A four-person conversation catalogs concrete tactics and failures: mentoring at hackathons, running Ladies Learning Code classes, building onboarding for Intel… | ||
| Shit Will Hit the Fan | Daniel Scheibel, Adrià Navarro | 41m |
Shows concrete failure and fixes: a storefront machine with Arduinos, seven DC motors, three steppers, two power supplies and hidden sensors that fails… | ||
| Feeling Films – The Future of Tactile Media | Bob Heubel, Paige Raynes | 42m |
Claim: standard phone motors can add tactile tracks to video and ads and they already run on Android via an SDK and a tiny HAP file. Built demos include a live… | ||
| Is Lean UX Agile’s Brain? How Lean UX Fixes Common Agile | Nick Van Weerdenburg | 33m |
Argues that Lean UX fixes agile by changing what gets discussed and measured: it cuts 30–40% of scope by validating hypotheses with real users, restructures… | ||
| Programming Play | Stacey Mulcahy | 44m |
Argues that playful experiments beat burnout and shows exactly how: a stuffed cat hacked with a Teensy and Node.js to grab Instagram images and drop them into… | ||
| Making Work For Humans, Not Consumers | Ivan Cash | 45m |
Projects built are specific and measurable: a handwritten service that mobilizes 1,500 volunteers and 26,000 letters sent to 80 countries, a single‑serving… | ||
| The Unknown: Running A Creative-Driven Business | Wilson Brown | 39m |
We work at the intersection of art and commerce. In art and music — from the outset — the creator doesn’t know where he or she will end up. On the other hand… | ||
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