Long

Soledad Penadés’ talk at CSSConf.Asia 2016 raised an important point on what is web’s natural direction and which principles “cut along the grain”. Continuing from there, a high speed lightning talk where I speak on “time”.

As web designers and developers do we care care about many aspects, but does that include time? We do try to make our sites performant and load fast. That’s the “short” side of time. How about the “long” side? Do we strive to make our work live long?

Transcript

1. “…cutting along the grain”
2. We’re designers & developers
3. We care
4. Aesthetics
5. Usability
6. Accessibility
7. Experience
8. …
9. Time?
10. Speed
11. Fast!
12. “Short”
13. “Long”
14. Forward compatible
15. The first website (1989)
16. The first website (1989) ~27 years
17. ~100 days
18. ~100 days Average lifespan of a webpage
19. :(
20. Time Jeremy Keith — Full Frontal 2013
21. “Long”
22. “Long” is the grain of the web
23. Think long