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Keynotes

Each day at Web Directions begins and ends with a session that will get you thinking about the big picture. The inimitable Tom Coates will kick off the show with a new network, on Friday morning we’ll all wake up with Andy Clarke, plus there’s a closing keynote for each day still to be announced.

Ballpoint, Penn, or Bust

Andy Clarke, author, Hardboiled Web Design

Presenter: Andy Clarke

Animation on the web has traditionally been low-​​fidelity and shares much common ground with the work of early animators. Web animations have always been the domain of Flash because equivalents couldn’t easily be created using open standards. That is until now, with ever increasing support for CSS3 Animations. Learn about the latest CSS animation techniques and how to create effective, accessible fallbacks for all browsers, including those with limited capabilities.

A New Network

The Planet itself is our canvas

Presenter: Tom Coates

The work we’re collectively doing—opening up gradually all of human information and media, making it recombinable, helping people create and share their work—is a huge unspoken, sexy, world-​​redefining mission.

It’s a mission that many of us have become blasé about, almost unaware of. It’s a project so large that it’s hard to get a grasp on. And the next few years are going to get even more interesting as the network pervades physical objects and environments, sensing and manifesting information in the real world.

It’s time to recognise the scale of the project we have in front of us, the breadth of the material we have to work with, and the possibilities of design within it. All of human knowledge, creativity—even the planet itself—is our canvas.

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