In the second decade of the second millennium, many of us are approaching the web wrong. We have trouble defining goals, addressing needs, and defining scope. We use phrases like “Mobile First,” or “Content First.” We forget where we came from, and lack vision on where we’re going by bogging ourselves down in processes or allowing programmers to do front end UI. Everything about our environment is transitional – everything except one core component: us. People create websites, people consume websites, and there comes a point where strategy needs to yield to technological requirements and open itself to what our users want and need. I’m talking about “People First.”

1. "the web is human"
michael fienen
@fienen
senior interactive developer - aquent
#ahumanweb - http://bit.ly/ahumanweb

2. hi, i'm michael
http://about.me/michaelfienen

3. sharing is caring

4. psychology

5. reciprocation

8. marketing

10. user interface

13. communication

15. people

16. like us

17. noise?

18. everything else

19. intrinsic

20. strategy

21. mobile first

22. mobile first

23. content first?

25. user first

27. technology

28. silos

29. specialties

30. technology is hard

32. medicine

36. networks

37. immune system

38. flux

39. mobile

41. platforms

42. responsive design

43. jquery mobile

44. rat race

46. agile

47. why?

48. responsiveness

49. design

50. art

53. needs

54. goals

58. sophisticated user

59. evolution

60. "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A
lot of times, people don't know what they want until you
show it to them." - Steve Jobs (1998)

61. how did i live without...

65. six degrees
1997

66. friendster
2002

67. myspace
2003

68. facebook
2004

69. twitter
2006

71. 2013?

72. connections

74. search

75. content

76. noise

84. online dating

85. 593 million visits
in October 2011

86. 1 in 10 singles

87. 1 in 3 online
(for better or worse...)

89. parks

91. user-centered
design

92. thank you!
@fienen - #ahumanweb http://bit.
ly/ahumanweb