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Front Trends 2016 in Warsaw: Day 3

Summarizing the third day presentations of the Front Trends 2016 conference in Warsaw, including the Nyan cat, pixel bonding, modern(izer) tools, CSS engineering principles, Origami, offline pages, real programmers and Trojan CVs.. A speakers list can also be found on 2016.front-trends.com/speakers/.

Photograph of a slide with Nyan Cat
If an interface is more human, it allow us to be more human.
—Tammie Lister

Opening by Staś Małolepszy

Trigger a bit of interest, be available to help. And many cool things will happen.

Exploring the Universal Library by Szymon Kalinski

Szymon showed some work he had done. It looked really cool, but honestly I don't know what he wanted to tell us ;-)

Pixel Bonding by Tammie Lister

People long for connection with others. By creating emotional UX and positive experience, you create trust and users will come back.

As a user, you recognize if an interface (the people behind it) care for you, or simply don't care. For example, friends don't let friends make mistakes.

Even little UI eastereggs can be incredibly delightful. But don't get creepy. Nobody likes stalker interfaces.

If an interface is more human, it allow us to be more human.

Modern Websites for the Modern Web by Patrick Kettner

Use of tools inside the new version of the Modernizr website and downloader: Service workers, clipboard.js, download binary blobs of service-worker-generated files, decent markup, custom Modernizr versions via npm install,

Make cool stuff. Don't be afraid to use new shiny things.

CSS for Software Engineers for CSS Developers by Harry Roberts

Harry applies software engineering principles to CSS development: DRY, Single Source of Truth, Single Responsibility, Seperation of Concerns(!), Immutability, Open/Closed Principle,

Good and funny talk with lots of code examples. One of the conference highlights!

There are 6,442,450,944 possible combinations of s sandwich at Subways. And all taste the same.

Can't you make it more like Bootstrap? by Alice Bartlett

Subtitle: "Considerations for building front end systems". Alice leads a team whose aim is to unify and DRY frontend work at the Financial Times (project "Origami".

On the different FT branded websites, there are a lot of things which have been implemented differently, even on atomic scale (4 implementations of a close button which looks the same, 3 different Twitter icons).

First step was to use components to keep HTML, CSS, JS for one thing in one place (this seems to be a hot topic this year).

The websites also have different tooling, which should be unified so all websites (implemented in different languages) can use the same components.

You can move the JS to bower packages, for example. But for (customizable) HTML templates or CSS ths is more complicated. So they implemented a build service that "everyone" can use to request Origamis CSS, JS and HTML. People liked using it, but the documentation was not good. -> I wish it was more like bootstrap.

And: they created a documentation styleguide(!), whcih includes a communication plan for new releases, incident reports, ...

Documentation is not complicated. It is just hard.

Building an Offline Page for The Guardian Oliver Joseph Ash

The Guardian's Native app caches articles offline, to provide content even if the user (or the servers) are offline. The website is not available offline. Oliver built a prototype for an offline page in less than a day! And provided a detailes step-by-step walkthrough on how it works.

The Myth of the "Real JavaScript Programmer" by Brenna O'Brian

Great talk about what seems to be expected from "good programmers" today, and what really is.

We don't need to know everything, finding a niche is cool. This is not a test. Real developers use resources wisely. Code has not to be perfect or even correct on the first try (or at all). Learn from mistakes. Show your work, not only your finished and polishes products. Encourage each other. We don't have to code all the day and everyday. Being a developer does not have to kill your hobbies (or parentship).

My biggest professional development was admitting what I don't know. — Jessica Rose

Don't hate the player, hate the game by Tim Holman

please be less ridiculous

Creativity is the best motivator. Projects are a journey, be fluid. — Tim Holman