Last week, David and Karsten of @VerseOneDev and @VerseOneDesign spent a day out at the "Bacon" conference at the Mermaid Conference & Events Centre in London.
Bacon is a two-day, two-track conference with thirty-two tasty sessions on topics including web development, machine learning, and the Internet of Things.
Karsten writes:
On the day, I think I was probably the only designer there. I think it's important that any good designer understands the wider technologies and technicalities that the development team works with and is therefore able communicate with and be briefed by a developer in the developer's terms, terminology, and language. This makes it easier for designers to understand the limitations in the relationship between design and functionality on the web.
The two speakers that really stood out for me on the day were Chris Haseman (@haseman), Lead Android Developer at www.tumblr.com, and Zach Holman (@holman), Lead Developer at GitHub. They were both confident speakers with fun personalities, who didn't dwell on technical details and focused on ideas and concepts instead.
I thought it would be worth sharing some of our learning. You can find the slides to their presentations below:
@haseman—Mobile Tools for Citizen Journalists [pdf] 7.8MB
@holman—Stories From a Music-Fueled Distributed Streaming Bender (alternate version of his presentation here)
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