Communicating with GIFs

These the slides of a lighting talk I gave at NSSpain 2014.

Unfortunately, PDFs cannot contain GIFs, so this presentation is actually pretty bland. ;)

You can download the Deckset source with included GIFS here: http://cl.ly/3l2l1U0S2m2O

Transcript

1. Communicating with GIFs ⚡️talk #NSSpain14
2. BONO ESTENTE
4. Why use GIFs?
6. Why use GIFs? 4 it’s like emoji, but more expressive
8. Why use GIFs? 4 a picture says a thousand words 4 beats typing 4 humour!
10. Why use GIFs? 4 you can use the actual gif image 4 iMessage 4 mail 4 warning: gifs tend to be big
11. Why use GIFs? 4 You can use just a text link 4 You can use them everywhere "connected" 4 it's text -> fast 4 works great in social media 4 EXCEPT FACEBOOK
13. Why use GIFs? 4 Also great in work related communication 4 chatrooms (Stack, Hipchat, ...) 4 lovely in commit messages 4 works great for PRs
16. Why use GIFs? 4 Gifs of cats. Nuff said.
21. No really, they're great for all sorts of stuff
29. How to use GIFS? 4 it has to convey more info than just text 4 you have to be able to reply fast 4 not all answers are good as a gif 4 know when to use gifs 4 Watch out for gifstorms 4 except on friday
31. Manage your urls 4 use original URL: 4 fast for you (no extra work) 4 fast for viewer (may be cached) 4 linkrot!
34. Manage your urls 4 Upload image to "managed" storage: 4 dropbox 4 cloudapp 4 S3 4 your-own-domain.io
36. Size matters 4 Keep on eye on the size of the gif 4 some can be quite large 4 no need for “quality” 4 plain text gifs 4 If you use gifs a lot (in the same group/ context), you can fallback to plain text 4 Just use the name of the gif
37. *justin gif*
39. Tools 4 Make your life easier 4 Use the correct tool for you 4 easy to find, easy to copy
41. Tools - Mac 4 Alfred 4 Boom 4 Gifwit 4 GIFs
42. Alfred 4 Add gifs as clipboard snippets 4 Use the 's' shortcut to find snippets 4 http://alfredapp.com 4 Needs Powerpack!
43. Boom 4 Snippets from the commandline 4 Great if you're a Terminal person 4 http://github.com/ holman/boom
44. Gifwit 4 App store app ($2.99) 4 http://gifwit.com 4 url + keywords 4 preview!
45. GIFs 4 Open source app by @orta 4 repository of gifs 4 WIP but definitely useable ;)
46. Tools - iOS 4 iOS text shortcuts 4 Popkey
47. Tools - iOS text shortcuts 4 tedious to manage 4 no spaces in shortcuts 4 better than nothing
49. Tools - PopKey 4 Gif keyboard for iOS8 4 http://popkey.co 4 "Coming soon"
51. Sources 4 Reddit 4 http://reddit.com/r/gifs 4 http://reddit.com/r/michaelbaygifs 4 "Specialized" sites 4 http://replygif.net 4 http://reactiongifs.com 4 http://giphy.com
52. Sources 4 ALL THE Tumblr BLOGS 4 Google Image Search 4 Search tools - Type - Animated
53. Make your own! 4 gifme 4 https://github.com/holman/gifme So easy: gifme ~/Desktop/*.jpg You now have a handsome animation at ~/Desktop/animated.gif
55. Thanks! @inferis ~ http://inferis.org