While Una’s presentation was on optimizing raster images, Chris’s presentation is on the things that can be accomplished when we use SVG files – a specific form of vector images. (Neither speaker did a significant amount to explain the difference, and it’s a core concept in design, so if you’re new to the field or you need a refresher read up on the difference.) Continue reading “An Event Apart Seattle 2017: 10 Things You Can and Should Do with SVG by Chris Coyier”
An Event Apart Seattle 2017: The Joy of Optimizing by Una Kravets
Una’s presentation centered around raster graphics and how they can be better optimized. Though she doesn’t go into it in detail, the implications of poorly-optimized raster images are costly: they tend to be large files, costing our users money in data fees (if on a price-per-MB connection) and time (if on a slow connection) as well as storage and other less-concerning issues.
For the application-heavy work that I tend to do in my day job (my wheelhouse is enterprise web app information architecture) I’m better off with SVG vector images for most uses than raster — iconography is better suited to vector for a number of reasons.
But ooh boy do I have some work to do for my personal WordPress sites. Continue reading “An Event Apart Seattle 2017: The Joy of Optimizing by Una Kravets”
Now on The Interconnected: a review of ForgeConf
I attended ForgeConf, a one-day conference about making and designing for the web. Because I believe excellence should be celebrated, I wrote a review for for the conference on The Interconnected.
Tickets normally go on sale in January or February so keep an eye out if you’re in the Philadelphia area.