Let me tell you a story
A presentation at Frontend Conference Zurich 2013 in in Zürich, Switzerland by Denys Mishunov
ef Let Me Tell You A Story ab Denys Mishunov @mishunov
PROJECT story outside world
g STORY 1 h Where people don't think about people… and things go bad
September 19th, 2011 Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
September 20th, 2011 Braintree, Essex
"Foresight Future Identities (2013)" Government Office for Science, London
"Foresight Future Identities (2013)" 100 academics 20 published evidence papers
INDIVIDUALITY
Devices connected to internet 20 10 15 billions 7 billions 0 2011 2015
Social networks users 2007 17% 2013 60%
“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.” Meg Jay, clinical psychologist
g STORY 2 h Where people start thinking about people
g 2.1 h Where people think about people and… get benefit
2005
Open Source CMS
g 2.2 h Where people think about people and… enjoy doing so
March 2012 Nottingham, England
Linda S andvik c t u S e r a l C e ff li
Code Club
Code Club “…a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 9-11.”
Code Club worldwide “…a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 9-11.”
Skills, employment and education A critical issue for the future will be to ensure that individuals have the knowledge, understanding, and technological literacy to enable them to take control of their own online identities, and to be aware of their online presence and how it could be used by others.
“Code Club is and always will be free! It’s one of our core beliefs and we aim to keep it this way. Code Clubs should be totally volunteer-led, so please don’t charge for your clubs!” Code Club website
g STORY 3 h Where people think about people and… technology helps them
1991 Computer Lab of the University of Cambridge
“It started back in the dark days of 1991, when the World Wide Web was little more than a glint in CERN's eye…” Quentin Stafford- Fraser
Trojan Room coffee pot
September 2004 KB Hilltop Stables, Charlotte, Iowa
September 2004 KB Hilltop Stables, Charlotte, Iowa
“The Internet is my hero. We hear so many bad news stories about the Internet and about Web cams but this has such a happy ending.” Bev Holzrichter
“Don’t be afraid to get an unlikely, even exoticsounding, potential problem checked out. No one will laugh at you. Google is definitely your friend.” Doug Henning
“Need a paramedic on corner of John Wesley Dobbs and Jackson St. Woman on the ground unconscious. Pls ReTweet.” Kwanza Hall
“Diagnosed with Leukemia in Sept ‘11. Recovering and reevaluating life.” Amit Gupta
m EPILOGUE m
9450 children born during 45 minutes
Next time you develop something, think of a story that your product might be involved into. Think about people involved in this story. And maybe you will want to make your product a bit better. And your product’s story will have happy ending. Me a.k.a Denys Mishunov
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Presented at Frontend Conference Zurich 2013
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