Making things simple - con.devdk 2015

A talk about making things simple. Includes my unscientifical depiction of The Developer Curve and The Designer Curve.

Transcript

1. Making things simple. A talk by Kasper Tidemann for con.devdk 2015.
2. This is me – developer, designer, company builder, your new friend.
3. Today is a good day. And tomorrow is even better.
4. Let’s talk code. Begin the beguine.
5. The Developer Curve – the development of a developer. complexity start during end
6. Guns blazing! Where everything is possible by downloading +40 plugins for WordPress!
8. Second System Syndrome. Huge frameworks, flexibility, extendability, dynamicity – and webservicify all the things!
10. KISS. Getting somewhat back to basics at the end of the curve. end
11. Mithril, Go, and Riak. Such simple technologies they leave you with no choices.
12. m.route(document.body, '/', { '/': hello }); var hello = { view: function() { return m('p', 'Hey there!'); } };
13. Go, Go!
14. Riak Control telling you everything is a-ok.
15. That’s how I sleep well at night. Stable, simple, stable again.
16. Let’s talk design. About why it’s so hard to design right.
17. – I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. The famous quote by Blaise Pascal.
18. The Designer Curve. complexity start end
19. Outook in 2003.
20. Mailbox in 2015.
21. Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
22. Microsoft Dynamics AX in 2006.
24. – But I’m not a designer! What developers tend to say.
25. YES YOU ARE
26. Design and code is the same. Great design and great code, anyway.
27. Remove! Remove all the things!
28. The future is simple. And it’s now.
29. Thank you! <3