Christian Heilmann

All the small things at Awwwards Amsterdam

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 at 5:12 pm

Last week, I cut my holiday in the Bahamas short to go to the Awwwards conference in Amsterdam and deliver yet another fire and brimstone talk about performance and considering people outside of our sphere of influence.

me at awwwardsPhoto by Trine Falbe

The slides are on SlideShare:

All the small things… – Awwwards 2016 from Christian Heilmann

The screencast of the talk is on YouTube:

I want to thank the organisers for allowing me to vent a bit and I was surprised to get a lot of good feedback from the audience. Whilst the conference, understandably, is very focused on design and being on the bleeding edge, some of the points I made hit home with a lot of people.

Especially the mention of Project Oxford and its possible implementations in CMS got a lot of interest, and I’m planning to write a larger article for Smashing Magazine on this soon.

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