Tyler Sticka
Tyler is a partner and creative director at Cloud Four, where he helps vanquish complex responsive design challenges for clients like Walmart Labs while blogging about SVG and other web ephemera. He’s also a fan of side projects, co-founding Backabit (makers of iOS games Ramps, Lotsa Blocks and Spinner Galactic) and launching Colorpeek (and its accompanying Chrome extension) in his spare time.
SVG: So Very Good
Tuesday, 17th – 12:20
Icon fonts! CSS-only illustrations! High-resolution GIF animations! Today’s web designers still regularly and enthusiastically employ these techniques… yet they’re all a better fit for SVG, a powerful vector image format that’s already old enough to drive a car.
Join me for an impassioned and entertaining introduction to your new favorite image format: What it is, how it works, and why it’s so awesome.
Together we’ll cover:
- The trouble with high-resolution imagery
- The inventive hacks we’ve used to this point
- How some of our pre-SVG techniques hurt users
- SVG’s surprisingly long history
- How SVG works
- The possibilities of SVG beyond iconography
- What the future holds for SVG
- On the Web
- http://cloudfour.com/is/tyler/
- On Twitter
- @tylersticka
