Chris Campe of @BerlinLetters inadvertently became a protest sign influencer after painting some protest signs for herself to use.
She leant into it, and started doing workshops on how to draw effective protest signs.
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A couple of impression from day one at @btconf Düsseldorf 2024. Speakers today were Chris Campe, Adrienne Tacke, Oliver Schöndorfer, David de Léon, @maggie and Stefan Sagmeister.
Exhausted, but pretty happy with the results. See y'all tomorrow!
- Feedback is a gift, even if not so intended. It is sometimes uncomfortable, but that means it's useful.
- It is just information. Do with it what you want.
- Become a collector of feedback. Get as much information out of a session as you can.
- Not everyone has to to like your work, or like you.
- It's rarely about you. They may have stuff going on, or have a pissed-off thinking face.
- Assume some negative feedback.
- Feedback may sting, because we're human.
Thank you David de Léon.
Oliver Schöndorfer literally dancing on the stage at #BTConf to present some quick fixes for accessible typography has to be my favourite moment so far! 😁
Nope, I don't think I can do Oliver Schöndorfer's talk justice.
He artfully weaved between pro and con accessibility stances (and clearly came out on the correct side, of course) - while acknowledging the troubles people have trying to understand and implement accessible design.
There was so much more to this talk, I recommend you go watch the video once it's publicised!
Getting Factfulness (Hans Rosling, RIP) vibes from Stefan Sagmeister's closing talk today.
Negative stories get more traction, seem more true, sound more intelligent. They get shared more, they get more attention.
Taking the long view, life is better than it ever has been. We have great data from the last 200 years to prove it, and Stefan has made some wonderful art that represents it:
https://sagmeister.com/work/now-is-better/
The fight for progress is working. We need to keep on fighting.
In case anyone at #BTConf finds my little 
stickers and wonders what they are for - it's pure silly fun:
We are seeing some great posts being posted about the Beyond Tellerrand conference! #BTConf
You can see all the posts from the first day of the 2 day conference aggregated here:
https://fedidevs.com/beyondtellerrand24/?date=2024-05-13
Adrienne Tacke giving us some solid, useful advice on reviews and PRs #BTConf
(With thanks to native Mastodon detecting text in the picture! Needed lots of editing but a great help for ALT text!)
