Heydon Pickering
Heydon is a utilitarian designer and inclusive design consultant from Norwich in the UK. He invented the lobotomized owl selector, does some subversive things with fonts and drew a picture of a 'crocoduck' for the W3C HTML5 specification. He works with The Paciello Group and Smashing Magazine.
Talk: Writing Less Damned Code
Concatenating, minifying, compressing, caching: all serviceable ways to improve the performance of web interfaces. But none are as effective as not coding something in the first place. Code that don't exist is infinitely performant and extremely easy to maintain and document. This talk will identify some examples of front-end code that are either not needed at all, make the interface worse just by being there, or can be replaced by something much, much simpler. Say hello to unprogressive non-enhancement.
