Meta Refresh 2015
as the organisers put it
Meta Refresh: Conference on The Construction of User interface on the web, in Bangalore, India
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Deep Dive into CSS Blend Modes | Shwetank Dixit | 32m |
CSS now exposes roughly sixteen blend modes (fifteen non‑normal effects) and shows how they work at the algorithm level and inside stacking contexts, with… | ||
| DOM animations, almost native | Arun Subramaniam | 18m |
Goal is 60 FPS so each frame must finish in about 16 ms (aim for 10 ms to be safe). Use requestAnimationFrame not setInterval, avoid DOM trashing (read/write… | ||
| Taking on bigger players with better UX | Neehar Venugopal | 06m |
Describes a product that beats larger rivals by simplifying core flows: a booking/marketplace that uses SMS + Android phone fallback so low‑connectivity… | ||
| Design for Delight | Vivek Raghavan, Bhaskar Chatterjee | 42m |
Claim: a three‑pillar Design for Delight process—customer empathy, go broad then narrow, and rapid lean experiments—yields measurable product wins. Methods… | ||
| We don't hate the Web | Amar Nagaram | 46m |
Flipkart claims browsers block essential native features so they move core experiences into apps; they cite 18,796 Android devices as impossible to test and… | ||
| Mobile Web in an App World | Wishy Arora | 33m |
Cleartrip measures that 50% of traffic now comes from mobile devices and that the mobile web drives roughly 20% of mobile bookings, so the team treats the… | ||
| Real-time Communication on Mobile | Thomas Gorissen | 38m |
Claims WebRTC is a web standard (finalized April 1) that enables peer-to-peer audio/video/data with browser APIs; actual tooling shown includes Skylink JS and… | ||
| A framework for building data driven interactive front ends | Ritvvij Parrikh | 20m |
Claims a JSON-first system called Pi query JSON object that turns front-end select/filter logic into one API that serves ~70% of queries and scaled a cricket… | ||
| Look up Javascript on mobile | Dron Rathore | 40m |
Claim: heavy client templating and naive event handlers kill mobile performance so move HTML rendering server side with a render=true flag, avoid big client… | ||
| Now that we have an app, let's kill our mobile site! | Harish Sivaramakrishnan | 54m |
Company builds a dedicated mobile web site (75% of traffic) by scrapping a bulky responsive shell and shipping a hand‑rolled CSS framework plus shared… | ||
| games teach you UX | Jaison Justus | 09m |
Claim: games teach UX by demonstrating concrete patterns and tradeoffs — examples include a minimal HUD that hides ammo until combat, a map built as a… | ||
| Animation & Effects | Vikram Jit Singh | 07m |
Claim: SVGs replace PNG icons with resolution‑independent vectors that reduce file size and enable per‑element DOM access, CSS styling, animations and XML… | ||
| Making maps work on mobile | Sajjad Anwar | 15m |
Claims that client-side vector rendering replaces raster tiles, cutting data and enabling style changes on the device, with Mapbox tooling and open specs… | ||
| Why Design? | Hemanth Sharma | 07m |
A five‑minute condensation of a three‑hour deck claims design must solve problems not just express emotion and that one clear concept beats many guesses. It… | ||
| What's your web? | Souvik Das Gupta | 35m |
Claims that mobile web usage is surging but pages get heavier, with 72% mobile page views in India, average mobile speeds around 1.7 Mbps, and web pages… | ||
| Web vs Native | Thomas Gorissen | 07m |
Built an online grocery (RedMart) and observes that of people who add items on mobile 60% move to desktop to check out, so mobile often serves discovery while… | ||
| Dissecting the #SaveTheInternet campaign | Kiran Jonnalagadda | 12m |
Google Analytics shows the campaign site getting 1.9 million views in one week with about 680 concurrent users and messy location data; device and browser… | ||
| PykCharts.js | Ritvvij Parrikh | 05m |
Claims a practical, design-first chart library rather than another wrapper around vague examples: PykCharts.js is built on D3.js, open source, and implements a… | ||
| How I learned to stop worrying and loved the flux | Jaseem Abid | 46m |
A four‑person UI team at Ideadevice migrates a large YUI MVC app to React and Flux and actually ships a small users/teams app; Flux is used as a specification… | ||
| Components Approach to Building Web Apps | Vinci Rufus | 41m |
Claims that building apps as reusable components cuts front/backend friction and maintenance and shows how web components (custom elements + HTML Imports +… | ||
| UIs as Values | Shashi Gowda | 18m |
Claim: UIs are immutable values and can be generated and diffed on the server, not just described as a topic. Implementation: Canvas.jl builds UI functions… | ||
| nothing matches | ||