Jeffrey Veen took a step back from the craftsmanship minutiae and shows where things are going. Starting in 1974, he oriented our direction with the advent of the video game and the hard drive, and took us through an understanding of where we have come from and what that means for our web creations.
- Tools for participation and scale of data: from 1974 to the future, the direction of the web.
- Every minute of the day, 24 hours a day 18 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube.
- If things make you (the designer) feel stupid, it's probably not your fault; it's the presentation.
- The presentation of data can alter the response from the audience, negating the default desensitization of statistics
- Assign different visual cues to each dimension of data.
- Remove everything that isn't telling the story
- Provide filters to enable clarity
Direction
- Designers will need to learn to operate without total control. Users will determine device and layout.
- Give tools to people to create their own stories with your information. Use the data itself as a mechanism for navigation (google analytics is an excellent example of this).
- 70% of google traffic originates outside of the United States
- Under 25 internet users, born into a web world assume their web information is public unless made private, over 25 assumes private unless made public.
- New ideas come from your heart, not your wallet.
I was surprised that the event was not so much about the future of the Web as it was the state of the designer. To that end, Veen's presentation really did a good job of answering that expectation while still keeping in the conference spirit that the future of the web is in the hands of the designers right now--today. Coming to the end of this two-day session, I'm convinced again that GIEN is a great direction for our community to develop tools; tools that will effectively and beautifully enhance our church and our world.
