Top stories published by integral vision in 2014 medium. I stumbled across this great 46minute presentation by aral balkan. Aral balkan is a software developer working on social justice initiatives in the digital age. Balkan states is a group of 7 countries namely slovenia, croatia, bosniaherzegovina, serbia, montenegro, macedonia and albania. I introduced the problems of a growing producerconsumer digital divide the need for more public discourse in the politics of technology and how free software, codeclub, livecoding, algorithmic weaving and sonic bikes can indicate other relationships we can have with technology. Yes says aral balkan emphatically in this insightful, inspiring and often hysterically funny talk. Aral balkan keynote i, simulation posts navigation. Aral balkan launches open platform initiative creative bloq. A great talk by aral balkan where he illustrates how great design can make you feel like a superhero and poor or mediocre design choices lead to frustration. This gets even more complicated with software, where small tweaks on. We make better blocker, a privacy tool that blocks web trackers.
Aral balkan tells the audience that app development is all about the making of new everyday things. As you type a tweet, a cute birdy mascot starts to fill with color to indicate how many characters you have left of the 140 maximum figure 6. The twoperson team of laura kalbag and aral balkan originally developed software in brighton, united kingdom before moving to the southern city of malmo in sweden. Furthermore, since hardware design and software design are so. He also covers the attack surface of applicationlevel encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how webassembly and webcrypto help. Aral balkan is a designer and programmer who has been making things with computers for the past 35 years. Aral balkan free is a lie thinking digital 2014 on vimeo.
Keep updated on all the latest and greatest events that. What we have learned about bulgaria manteigas portugal 2. Prepare to listen to this piercing message to the traditional ott and cloud industries. Balkans talk, superheroes and villains in design at the thinking digital 20 conference.
Aral balkan is an experience designer working to change the world through better design. Aral balkan privacy, data, democracy video archive the. In addition to lecturing and writing on web design and development, jeffrey has been active with. Balkanization, division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities. Im a cyborg rights activist, designer, and developer at small technology foundation. Aral balkans presentation in the developer theater was titled letter to the ceo and addressed the shortcomings of the software development process. Aral would go so far as to say that he wants to create and experience designs that make us feel like superheroes when we interact with them. May 28, 2008 flashinto svn presentation slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Aral balkan is an internationally renowned expert on rich internet applications and the flash platform. In compliance with organic law 151999, of of december, on personal data protection, and the development of rules of procedure, approved by royal decree 17202007, of 21 of december, atlas of the future subscribers may be required to provide personal data, which will be included in a file owned by democratising the future society sl. The term balkanization is today invoked to explain the.
A balanced mixture of participants and speakers working in programming, design, marketing and business development. While you will certainly be attending conference in order to learn, a short work trip away from the office will reenergize you and allow you to work better when you return. Hes a visiting professor at ucl bartlett institute of innovation and public purpose and mayor of london design advocate. Aral balkans twitter iphone app feathers deftly combines usability and emotional design to create a pleasurable user experience. Aral balkan s presentation in the developer theater was titled letter to the ceo and addressed the shortcomings of the software development process. Aral highlights the importance of outsidein design and why we. Vimeo link to aral balkans a happy grain of sand keynote. Thats why the best designs are winning the most business. We also work on the indienet initiative to create a fairer and more equal internet. Ozgurkon is an online conference about free software and related topics such as hardware freedom, document freedom, internet freedom etc. The online event which takes place october 2426, 2008 will bring together over 100 of the worlds top web visionaries.
Aug 07, 2012 aral balkans twitter iphone app feathers deftly combines usability and emotional design to create a pleasurable user experience. This site isnt perfect and thats ok 8 jul, 2012 at lunchtime. Jun 18, 2012 but aral balkan, the conferences keynote speakers, on the plane back from oslo, wrote an analysisapology for his cursory role in the wording of the production. During the firsthalf of our panel, we will be joined for short presentations by representatives from free software foundation europe and the. Its the end of the indie as we know it indierem medium. A website comprises content as well as the presentation of that content. Aral balkan, user experience designer aral balkan is an experience designer working to change the world by bringing design thinking to open source to create a new category of technology. Aral balkan and laura kalbag moved here from brighton in 2015. The term also is used to refer to ethnic conflict within multiethnic states. Vimeo link to aral balkans a happy grain of sand keynote aral goes on to talk about how we as developers should create emotional connections with our users his song example, and design experiences that make our users happy. Aral balkan is an experience designer and developer working to improve the world through design that empowers, amuses, and delights. Proximity implies relation, out of sight out of mind aral balkan. Karina myers ux interaction designer frontend developer. In his classification, there are three kinds of software see picture top right, as follows.
Super computing and technology ideas that come from sweden. Describing themselves as building ethical technology that respects human rights, indie is developer of the webprivacy app better that runs on macos and ios. Speechbased user interfaces represent one of the next major disruptions in computing and the alexa voice service avs provides you with an opportunity to take advantage of this new form of interaction. Sep 04, 2014 a difficulty with teaching kids programming in my codeclub where they become lost in the screen. It was coined at the end of world war i to describe the ethnic and political fragmentation that followed the breakup of the ottoman empire, particularly in the balkans.
Great design is a symptom of a designlead organization structure and development process aral balkan and this is why apple wont need steve, because the focus on user experience is now embedded in the organization structure. Presentation two at the big m is on user experience. Its a challenge for any of us really but for children particularly to disengage and think differently e. Ozgurkon is an online conference about free software and related topics such as hardware freedom. Sep 26, 20 aral balkan, user experience designer aral balkan is an experience designer working to change the world by bringing design thinking to open source to create a new category of technology. If the coffee didnt wake everyone up on thursday morning then aral balkan sure did. I was asked by some german friends if i knew something about flash and accessibility for a german podcast, and i said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago i remembered however the dynamic flash duo aral balkan and niqui merret from barcamp and other social occassions and offered to take on questions in german, interview them and talk in a podcast about the results. The slides editor is available right in your browser.
I like ux talks because they use great examples in everyday life that do not work. Its not features that differentiate products now, its the experience. The bulgarian climate is temperate, with cold winters andthe bulgarian climate is temperate, with cold winters and humid mediterranean summers, that is warm and dry. So this is going to be a followup of theos presentation to give details of the city of londons smart city panopticon efforts. Partial transcript from aral balkans keynote at drupalcon. The twoperson team of laura kalbag and aral balkan originally developed software in brighton, united kingdom before moving to the. C and mature development environments like xcode, visual studio, and eclipse. A difficulty with teaching kids programming in my codeclub where they become lost in the screen. I first came across him a few years back as a champion of open source flash. Codename prometheus was inspired by the fallout related to recent surveillance programs such as prism and shortfalls in current open products.
Heres a presentation i gave at the end of last year at a creative skills cornwall meeting at falmouth university. Aral balkan gave a powerful presentation digital feudalism and how to avoid it a tale of indie data at a recent conference covering not only this danger we all face but also why open source software design needs to step up to the plate if it is to contribute to the prevention of the take over of our lives by the small number of large. But aral balkan, the conferences keynote speakers, on the plane back from oslo, wrote an analysisapology for his cursory role in the wording of the production. This proved too challenging but the project since has produced several apps and online tools that respect users with high standards of usability and design. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Drop me a line for public speaking or media inquiries. They are critical of most commonly available ad blocking software, suggesting its principles are still based around what aral terms surveillance capitalism.
Presentation for bulgaria free download as powerpoint presentation. Partial transcript from aral balkans keynote at drupalcon prague, september 26, 20 transcriptaralbalkandigitalfeudalismdrupalcon. You have commodity hardware, commodity software, and free access to more information at your fingertips than has ever been available. Ozgurkon 2020s main theme is covid19 pandemic and freedom struggles.
Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. Aral balkan is an experience designer and developer working to improve the world. Slides is a place for creating, presenting and sharing presentations. Flashinto svn presentation slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. He coordinates open source flash and provides consulting and training services through his brightonbased company, ariaware. Join the platform over 40 million developers call home for hosting code, managing projects, and building their best software. Over the last 10 years, balkan services has gained invaluable experience in the integration of different software systems, the number of successfully integrated projects being over 100 at present. Competing products, aral balkan argues, have feature parity today. Aral didnt hold back and gave us a reality check of the world around us, and the impact of surveillance and capitalism on our privacy. Aral balkan, one of the people behind the indie phone, has proposed a simpler classification which will appeal to many people. Presentation for bulgaria bulgaria balkans free 30. The indie project by designer an activist aral balkan originally aimed to produce a fully independent phone and ecosystem with complete user control and data privacy. Its extremely important to move responsibility very low in the organization. Aral balkan on building the peoples internet p2p foundation.
He argues that free is a lie and that we via our personal data are all being quietly farmed for profit by the superpowers of the web. Design is all about solving problems and great design does that by making our interactions pleasant. Failure is the industrys standard, the waterfall method is the industrys standard, so waterfall failure. In 2014, aral returned to thinking digital to deliver a blistering talk about the state of the internet today. With such a name, he could even be the armenian guest player of galatasaray, and then i could say. Indie is aral balkan and laura kalbag, two european designers who build things. These days, hes organizing the update conference as part of the brighton digital festival and makes iphone apps such as his critically acclaimed feathers.
Chris peters former microsoft program manager chris peters describes the product mindset as applied to software development in the this excerpt from a 1991 presentation. Human rights, democracy, social justice, and ethical design. I just bought a watch and im going to wear it 9 jul, 2012 at suppertime. Unlike traditional presentation software, like powerpoint, theres no need to download anything. Fueled by the extreme shortsightedness and greed of venture capital and startups, the utopic vision of a decentralised and democratic commons has morphed into the dystopic autocracy of silicon valley panopticons that we call surveillance capitalism. As you probably know, user experience design is the discipline concerned with all aspects of the design of interactive products. Aral would go so far as to say that he wants to create and experience designs that make us. Video screenshots of aral balkan and presentation slides. Is our online future worth sacrificing our privacy and security. Experience designer aral balkan has revealed plans to create an open platform that competes on user experience in the consumer space. Jul 08, 2008 singularity web conference organizer, aral balkan, recently announced influxis, a leading adobe flash media server 3 hosting specialist, will be one of three major sponsors for the first largescale online web conference in the world. Listen to aral balkan, cyborg rights activist, designer and developer, outline the problem with surveillance capitalism and explain how.
Our experts are familiar with systems architecture and all the hidden risks behind each projects implementation. How to use encryption for defense in depth in native and browser apps isaac potocznyjones discusses the pros and cons of applicationlevel and endtoend encryption. In the age of experience, great design is your business plan zapier. Presentation for bulgaria bulgaria balkans free 30day. Listen to aral balkan, cyborg rights activist, designer and developer, outline the problem with surveillance capitalism and explain how we can. The online event which takes place october 2426, 2008 will bring together over 100 of the worlds top web. An extended cut of a recent interview on cyborg rights, surveillance capitalism, and ethical design on italian national television channel rai 1. Aral goes on to talk about how we as developers should create emotional connections with our users his song example, and design experiences that make our users happy. These states are situated in southeast europe and the name of this region comes from the balkan mountains which stretch through this area.
265 155 1536 87 908 1348 326 616 297 42 610 961 1273 524 954 1094 145 1286 887 446 1137 867 901 65 877 451 1492 1535 806 1258 256 1405 1395 24 8 795 835 1351 296 1303 1446 749 392 1261 526 1130 1471 896