ALL THESE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME

Sally Jenkinson, (R)evolution, 25.09.2015 @sjenkinson | sally@recordssoundthesame.com

the web, the future, and us

sally@recordssoundthesame.com | @sjenkinson

Digital solutions architect & consultant Records Sound the Same Ltd

Sally Jenkinson

DEVELOPER DEVELOPER, MANAGER

DEVELOPER, MANAGER, ARCHITECT

MANAGER, ARCHITECT, SALES, CONSULTANT 😒

DESIGNER!

DISCOVERY

REQUIREMENTS

SOLUTIONS RECOMMENDATION & ARCHITECTURE

TECHNICAL STRATEGY

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS

CONSULTANCY

THE INTERNET OF 2021

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WHAT CHALLENGES DOES THE FUTURE BRING?

2015.dconstruct.org

I worked on a project for SSEaaaaaaaa, , looking at digital solution architect , so

that we could do some digital and something for the next 5 to 10 years.

What we plan now may not be relevant in the future

Our project

Our users

Our business

Technology

Wildcards

Our project

Keeping up vs getting ahead

Technical debt

‘Digital transformation’

The needs of tomorrow vsthe realities of today

The wrong decisions, or adopting too soon

Keeping up as individuals

THE FUTURE IS HARD!

THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST

teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop

“Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would of course be awesome (someone please do this), the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment. !

This is where things get tricky.

TELLING STORIES

a work kit useful for parceling ideas into their

atomic elements

Make It So

“We’ve seen repeatedly that if an interface works for an audience, there’s something there that will work for users. !

Finding what that thing is and using it for inspiration in our own work is part of how we can use these speculative interfaces.

nesta.org.uk• Imagining Technology

• Better Made Up - The Mutual Influence of Science Fiction and Innovation

• Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: A modest defence of futurology

• Quantitative Analysis of Technology Futures

morning.computer/2015/05/the-future-is-a-confidence-trick

USING FUTURE THINKING

Better consider our users’ changing needs.

Identify opportunities.

Aid prioritisation.

Define what the product is and what it will be.

More robust decisions - understand limitations and benefits of choices.

React quickly/better to change by embracing evolution.

Make more exciting things!

THE FUTURE & OUR WORK

User interfaces & interactions

Feature-based components & integrations

Core digital platform components

Core back-end systems

User interfaces & interactions

Feature-based components & integrations

Core digital platform components

Core back-end systems

Submit

doStuff()

User interfaces & interactions

Feature-based components & integrations

Core digital platform components

Core back-end systems

User interfaces & interactions

Feature-based components & integrations

Core digital platform components

Core back-end systems

User interfaces & interactions

Feature-based components & integrations

Core digital platform components

Core back-end systems

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE FUTURE

Discovery & planning

Content first Separate content from display Small to large Prioritisation Backlog &

roadmap

Problems now & of the future

Usage patterns, interactions, behaviour

Embrace wider trends

Learn from the past

Don’t be bound by form

Create a set of high level principles for the future

gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5

Example principles

Discovery & planning

Content first Separate content from display Small to large Prioritisation Backlog &

roadmap

gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5

Problems now & of the future

Usage patterns, interactions, behaviour

Embrace wider trends

Learn from the past

Don’t be bound by form

Create a set of high level principles for the future

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam

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- Frederik Pohl

Doing

Embrace web standards, semantics, open formats

Responsive design & progressive enhancement

Create incrementally, release often

Track & manage change Think atomically

Allocate time to improve the past and the future

Stories and design thinking (workshops)

Lifespan of project components

Separation, modularity, loosely-coupled architectures and services

gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5

Embrace automation Document decisions Prototype & test

Evolving

Share your experiences

Specs & upcoming technologies Use your data

Better digital preservation Play more

gist.github.com/greywillfade/366394a1bef07afe27f5

Watch more sci-fi!

CUP OF TEA?

@sjenkinson | sally@recordssoundthesame.com | recordssoundthesame.com

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