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Code & Creativity is a social talk series created to connect us with each other and our larger community. Every other month, we’ll gather at the Camp House for a few hours to listen to one local and one visiting designer/developer as they share their passions, wisdom, and war stories. We'll ask questions, talk shop, and maybe even make some new friends. Of course no gathering would be complete without something yummy in your tummy, so snacks and a tasty beverage (coffee, soft drink, or beer) ...
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Across the country, designers, developers and creative people are working with others in their communities to make things work better. You may already be a civic hacker and not yet realize it. In Chattanooga, Code for America and Open Chattanooga have partnered with public agencies and community members to develop creative interventions for to impr…
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Getting feedback from clients, teams, and stakeholders can be terrifying. We’ve all had our designs berated during painful meetings that result in nothing actionable or useful. This presentation will provide tips and techniques for improving the conversations you have surrounding design with your teams, clients, and organizations.…
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From the Gigabit Community Fund to events like Maker Party to a buzzing Hive of technologists and educators, there are many moving pieces to Mozilla's growing work in Chattanooga. Learn how all these parts fit together around one big goal: helping Chattanoogans learn to build, create, and explore on the web. Find out what's coming next for Mozilla …
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Kevin Hoffman: Lessons Learned Working Apart: Thoughts on Distributed Collaboration and Remote Teams
I've spent most of my career as part of a team working in an office, making the web a little better each day. When starting my own company, however, one of my goals was to find ways to work with the people I looked up to… who had their own separate offices in different companies spread out all over the world. In order to get started, I had to think…
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Every decision we make affects the way real people experience our products. We've all heard the rallying cry for user-centered design, but even those of us who ascribe to that ideal often fall back on our own biases and instincts when it comes to making decisions about how people experience our content and our services. Sadly, this often means we m…
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Transforming a government website with 200 content authors, tens of thousands of pages, and close to 100 different content templates into a responsive design system is tricky business. In 2013, we led a project to update and future-proof one of Canada’s fastest-growing municipalities’ main communication channel: Surrey.ca. The responsive redesign a…
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There has been a lot of hype about Computer Science Education over the past year in both the local and national media. Is it warranted? Does everyone need to know how to code? (Disclaimer: Jill believes the answer to both is Yes!) In this talk she’ll explore some of the reasoning behind the push for CS Education, some creative ways CS Ed is being i…
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More information exists now than ever before. 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Facebook users upload 350 million photos every day, and over 10% of all photos ever taken were taken just last year. Along with the rise of all this information comes the amount of bullshit we're exposed to. We're all struggling to capture just a …
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Tools are an essential part of our discipline. They afford us the opportunity to execute our work in the ways that we intended. However, the landscape of what is available to carry out our work has changed rapidly over the last decade—from the applications we use to strategize and design, to the frameworks and methodologies we use to build and depl…
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John LeCarre famously said, “‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story; ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” We need very little introduction to the art of storytelling, but the craft of story is more nuanced and is a skill we can hone. Unless you’re already fully-engaged in storytelling in one form or another, it’s rare that we get t…
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In order to remain relevant in modern societies, libraries need an overhaul. In this talk, Nate Hill will explore the current predicament facing libraries and talk about what they need to do to remain relevant in our fast-paced digital world. He’ll highlight how the Chattanooga Public Library is setting the precedent for libraries nationwide with i…
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The best company voices reflect real people and real values. Kate will talk about finding your company’s voice and adapting your tone of voice based on the reader’s feelings. She’ll share the voice and tone guide her team created and explain how MailChimp’s content improved when they introduced accessible writing guidelines that work across departm…
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Lots of designers and developers talk a good game when it comes to designing great user experiences on the web. Sadly, few are aware of the effect poor performance can have on those experiences. In this talk, Daniel will look at a few best practices for increasing front-end user experience used by the Obama 2012 campaign and will bust a few common …
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Remember how cool it was when you first learned how to tween objects in Flash? That’s how Jenn feels about using CSS transitions with hovers. In this talk, she’ll take a look at how adding CSS-enhanced hover states to designs can take your work to the next level and examine how these translate to touch devices. CSS transitions are all the rage thes…
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Jason Griffey will talk about his current passion: the LibraryBox Project, an open source wifi file sharing device that recently had its v2.0 funded on Kickstarter to the tune of $33,000. He will discuss the genesis of the project, his ongoing goals for v2.0, and why receiving 1000% of his funding goals via Kickstarter keeps him up at night.…
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One of the biggest performance issues facing websites today is the sheer amount of JavaScript needed to power the page. The demand for more interactive and responsive applications has driven JavaScript usage through the roof, and it’s common for large sites to end up with more than 1 MB of JavaScript per page even after minification. But do we real…
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