These were all brilliant speakers!
Thank you again to @alexolder.com and @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for another wonderful, organic, homemade, wholesome conference.
@joshtumath.ukThank you Geri!! So lovely to see you!!!!
Josh Tumath
@joshtumath.uk
Dev in the BBC Design System team. CSSWG member. Here for CSS nerdery, design systems and Intrinsic Web Design. Also Christian and 日本語学習者. he/him
@joshtumath.uk@joshtumath.uk
@joshtumath.ukThe @webdevconf.com somehow finished early so we had an extra bonus talk from @lurkmoophy.bsky.social
The intro alone took about 10 mins as Luke told us the various things that they have tried to do. 😂 But that was sort of the point.
They talked about the effect of doing too many things at once.
@joshtumath.ukI forgot to tag @webdevconf.com but there you go!
@joshtumath.ukSometimes to do it, you have to delete the stuff that people don't want or need. Always learn from your users and see what they're doing. I love how in the early days of Granola, they were going into cafes and just showing people the product.
@joshtumath.ukOur last talk was by @paavandesign.com who talked about how to make our designs make us feel calmer.
Even just a notifications settings page on your OS can feel quite intense. So how do we do 'calm design'? A feeling that it's handled and you can just relax?
@joshtumath.ukNow those in early careers are learning that they can have instant answers rather than slowing over time bumping into issues and retaining that knowledge. This is known as never-skilling in one scientific paper, observed by people working in medicine.
@joshtumath.ukWe learn from short term memory, practice and then things stick in our long term memory. But with LLM use, that is affecting your learning. And it's even affecting how you receive feedback. And the less experienced you are, the more they're going to impact your learning.
@joshtumath.ukThe next talk was by @jesslynnrose.bsky.social and @rivea0.bsky.social as a dynamic duo. Talking about how the AI hype that is everywhere right now. And how that is affecting our skills.
It felt like necessary therapy for all of us!
@joshtumath.ukWe need to practice non-judgment. Which brings psychological safety and you can catch issues early because people feel comfortable talking about them. Otherwise we bring our own interpretation which distorts what we are listening to.
@joshtumath.ukSo how do we become better listeners? Because we do it, we build trust and influence.
So we can create space to talk, mirror back to show understanding and hold back your opinions. @webdevconf.com
@joshtumath.ukWe've had @amyhupe.bsky.social who has worked for us at the BBC!! We loved it when she was with us.
She was talking about whether we have a listening deficit in the UK. How well are we listening to one another? And how is it affecting us?
@joshtumath.ukYou can help the user by doing things like telling them what you're doing to do with the information you give. And you can do usability testing to really understand users' thoughts. See how you can avoid forcing people to lie to get around your questions.
@joshtumath.ukWe've had a lovely lightning talk from @cjforms.bsky.social about when we lie on forms.
And often it's because we need to muddle through the form and we're not given valid options. Or we want to protect our privacy.
@joshtumath.ukCreativity is not the same as art, design and aesthetics. But it contributes to all of them. Hidde gave us an incredible overview of how art affects us and inspires us... Or doesn't! What it does to an audience is what it's all about.
@joshtumath.ukI'm the next talk, @hidde.blog told us about how Ada Lovelace was the original dev rel. Dreaming up ways to use Charles Babbage's machines with algorithms.
The history of computer science is so interesting. But that doesn't mean it can replace creativity. @webdevconf.com
@joshtumath.ukWe had Duncan Petrie talking about some incredible and creative ways of using requestAnimationFrame which involved Fabergé eggs and a springy chicken crossing the road and very well animated spiders! @webdevconf.com
@joshtumath.ukHooray! I'm here at Bristol for @webdevconf.com! Looks like I'm speaking first tomorrow. Very excited!
If you're here, come say hi!! I'd love to meet you.
@bkardell.comReposted by @joshtumath.ukI like that @keithamus.social keeps trying to carry old things across the finish line. It's such a shame that so many thing fizzle after so much work and good ideas. The web needs more (paid) people doing this.
@joshtumath.ukSee you very soon!!!