Tyler Sticka is a creative director, designer, writer and artist from Portland, Oregon. He helps organizations realize expressive, delightful and performant responsive experiences. He co-owns Cloud Four, a web design and development consultancy.
Everyone loves animated GIFs, right? Not if you have finite bandwidth, a shaky network connection or motion sensitivity! But fear not: Thanks to newly supported media formats, shiny new web standards and the magic of web components, there’s never been a better time for web designers and front-end developers to level up our GIF game!
We’ll discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the animated GIF, its history and place in today’s culture, accessibility and performance considerations, and ways of improving the experience with features available in every modern browser.
| The Best Video Game Console You Probably Never Owned | Ignite Portland 13 | November 2016 |
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| SVG: So Very Good | CascadiaFest | August 2016 |
| Side Projects That Ship | Refresh Portland | June 2014 |
| Side Projects That Ship | WebVisions Portland 2014 | May 2014 |
| GO! How two guys made an iPhone game (and lived to tell the tale) | WebVisions 2011 | May 2011 |
| Graphic Storytelling in New Media | Web Visions 2009 | May 2009 |
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