FITC Toronto 2016
Talks
(Re)aligning The Way 400,000 People Think
Companies are beginning to understand that great design incites an emotional connection. This doesn’t occur at the enterprise level, but in the hearts of each individual user. Changing a 100+… Read more…
Adam Cutler
IBM Design
21st Century Crystal Ball
Sometimes if you’re lucky, you get asked to do a really big project. If the project is a good stretch or you need to pay the bills, then of course… Read more…
Sophi Kravitz
Hackaday
3D Printing Pop-Up Studio
MakeLab is bringing its fleet of 3D Printers to The Hub for drop-in designing. Join the MakeLab team for a crash course on 3D Printing where you’ll design an object… Read more…
5000 First Impressions
The hard partying life of interactive installations
For a decade Jared worked on and then directed the official SXSW Interactive opening party. As The Verge put it “… first it… Read more…
Jared Ficklin
argodesign
A Motion Designer and Developer Walk into a Bar
Our worlds are converging. Designers and coders are seamlessly blending their talents to unlock a new level of production value and interactivity in their work. With this great power comes… Read more…
A New Era for Animators
Animation is powerful and is not going anywhere as long as humans have eyeballs. What does change is technology. And as a creative we want to worry less about technology… Read more…
Paul Trani
Adobe
Accepting The True Meaninglessness of Everything We Do
David will be speaking candidly about creating art – both in general and as it relates to the new wave of 3D. About what motivates us and how that changes over… Read more…
David OReilly
davidoreilly.com
Accumulations
For the past decade, Nicholas Felton has methodically captured and shared his life in a series of projects collectively known as the Feltron Annual Reports. These reports apply data visualization… Read more…
Nicholas Felton
Feltron.com
Always Beginning
Hear how Dixon’s adventuring and stubborn naivety has brought new vigor to her category melding practice. She’ll share how monumental change has amplified her love of exploratory making, leading her… Read more…
Keetra Dean Dixon
Keetra Dean Dixon
Animation Prototyping; Using After Effects to Push the Web Forward
Web animation has dominated conversations for the last few years. Front-end developers and interaction designers are hungry to provide more value than just arranging boxes and text on screen. Users… Read more…
Ron Edelen
Myjive
Beauty Works – Aesthetics, Objectivity and Design
As design has been getting more attention, so has the idea that beauty is a natural outcome of good design. Somehow, it seems beauty can even serve as a benchmark… Read more…
Mark Rigley
Shopify
Beyond The Line
Most people who work in advertising are familiar with the terms “above” and “below the line.” But with technology invading every area of our culture, the digital realm exists outside that… Read more…
Kim Alpert
kimalpert.com
Beyond the Waterfall: Rethinking How We Work
Designer passes comp to developer. Developer develops. Project done. Unfortunately, this traditional ‘waterfall’ approach is riddled with missed opportunities. Given the complexity of our web projects today, collaborative workflows can… Read more…
Maya Bruck
Etsy
Bringing a Passion Project to Life
After years of successful services work, Relish Interactive set out to create their first piece of original content. A digital first franchise, The Incredible Tales of Weirdwood Manor is an… Read more…
Paul Pattison
Relish
Bringing the Future to Life
There are no facts about the future, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start designing it. By combining foresight and strategic innovation — through the creation of immersive experiences that… Read more…
Trevor Haldenby
The Mission Business Inc.
Creating Beautiful CSS Animations
Animations on the web have a storied history and no consistent approach. Using CSS animations is still considered an experimental technology but much can be created already. In this talk,… Read more…
Rami Sayar
Microsoft
Creative Coding with React & SVG
Developers today are exploring creative code to build something expressive and engaging. Traditionally this has been done with frameworks such as Processing and Cinder, and on the web, both Canvas… Read more…
Varun Vachhar
rangle.io
Defying Definition: The Path to Eschewing Traditional Design Genres
David will show how one small design gesture in an animation can plant the seed for a much larger-scale physical experience. Through the personal and collective journeys he has taken, he’ll prove that design… Read more…
David Lehman
HUSH
Design to the Future
From mobile devices to augmented reality and the internet of things, tech is moving off the screen and into the world — but is the force benign for humans, or dangerous?… Read more…
Sarah Groff-Palermo
Dolby Audio Browser Showcase
The web stands as a ubiquitous, pervasive platform with unmatched access for digital entertainment. As HTML5 fills the gaps between the flat, 2-dimensional experiences of old to bring flowing animations… Read more…
DOM Features You Didn’t Know Existed
We get excited over new HTML5 APIs and new CSS features, but many developers aren’t aware of the diverse array of native DOM features that are available — many of them… Read more…
Louis Lazaris
SitePoint
Don’t Be an Asshole, and Other Things I’ve Learned
Doing good work without losing your soul is hard. It’s a lot about process, a lot about making hard decisions, and a lot about failing often and not doing those… Read more…
Jay Grandin
Giant Ant
DownTheRabbitHole.js – How to Stay Sane in an Insane Ecosystem
Today it feels like Javascript tools and libraries are popping like up mushrooms. And just like fungi, if you pick the wrong one, it could lead to some real suffering.… Read more…
Branden Hall
Automata Studios
Draw by Light
Draw by Night is (literally) bringing draw-in-the-dark experience to FITC. Drop by The Hub and leave your message to the universe with light – tell us your dark secrets, aspirations,… Read more…
Embedding Cognitive Innovation in Design
Graham Churchill, Business Leader, IBM Bluemix Digital Innovation Platform Learn the art of the possible with cognitive. Hear how Watson has gone beyond Jeopardy and is now being embedded into… Read more…
Emergent Narrative: What We Can Learn From Dungeons & Dragons
Interactive narrative hasn’t changed much in forty years – it’s still ruled by limited options and predestined outcomes. While digital RPG gameplay has become more sophisticated, the stories remain rather… Read more…
Stefan Grambart
grambart.ca
Everyday Transformative Powers
This is a talk for all of us who find “the world” too big to be the change we’d like to see, but who still feel driven to do something… Read more…
Chrys Wu
Defies Description
Feeling Films – The Future of Tactile Media
Haptic effects — or force-feedback — has been relegated mainly to console gaming world for the past twenty years. But with advances in the both mobile and VR, it won’t be long… Read more…
From Agency Drones To Design Studio Powerhouse
Nearly every designer after a few years of working for an agency, begins to think about starting his or her own studio. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a fancy… Read more…
From All Sides: An Honest Conversation About Women In Technology
Join our panelists in an open and engaging talk about experiences being a woman in their field. From coming up and early days, to current awkward moments we will examine,… Read more…
Future Arcades
Arcades were once an exciting meeting place for the public to see the latest innovations in game interaction. Detailed graphics, holograms, delightful combination of physical hydraulics and digital effects and… Read more…
Zander Brimijoin
Red Paper Heart
Gamify Your Life – My Epic Quest of Awesome
Wouldn’t it be great if your real life was as compelling as the video games that you play? Several years ago Eric created a Dungeons & Dragons-type experience system for his… Read more…
Eric Boyd
Sensebridge
How to Get the Public to Fund Your Daft Ideas
There is no overview.
Target Audience
Anybody
Five things audience members will learn
How to make a rap video
How to work on Christmas Day
How to make the Queen… Read more…
Mr Bingo
Mr Bingo
I Heard React Was Good
There is no doubt React is here to stay, it’s popularity is on the rise. But if you are new to JS or new to JS frameworks you might be… Read more…
Ryan Christiani
Shopify
Is Lean UX Agile’s Brain? How Lean UX Fixes Common Agile Challenges
Agile development methods are sweeping the software industry, but reconciling UX, Agile and stakeholder demands for certainty are a struggle for many companies.
Expanding on a (in)famous “Agile doesn’t have… Read more…
Nick Van Weerdenburg
Rangle.io
Just Make Stuff!
Tools help us create beautiful, usable experiences for devices. However, they can also get in the way of creativity; designers and developers sometimes spend more time thinking about process, software,… Read more…
Catt Small
Dropbox
Kickstarting Your Stupid Project
Thinking about crowdfunding your next project? Hear Holly’s blow-by-blow account of how she launched the first issue of Stupid Magazine via a successfully-funded Kickstarter campaign. She’ll share what worked, what… Read more…
Holly Knowlman
Stupid Magazine
Let the Games Begin! With Experiential IoT
Learn how experiential technology provides new ways for people to interact with the physical world and the unique experiences brands can now create.
We’ll get our hands dirty with IoT… Read more…
Making Sausages: A Day in the Life of a Creative Technologist
Even the greatest of sausages, regardless of how well they are presented, are full of good parts and ugly parts. At the end of the day, all anyone remembers is… Read more…
Stephen Martell
DE-YAN STUDIO
Making Work For Humans, Not Consumers
Every brand wants to engage their audience, but far too many fail by overcomplicating the work. They aim for a viral video that feels “authentic” yet speak in a pre-calculated voice.… Read more…
Ivan Cash
Cash Studios
Migrating to Angular 2
AngularJS was originally created in 2009 as an end-to-end solution for web designers wanting to build simple web apps. Over the last 6 years it has evolved into a component based… Read more…
Rob McDiarmid
Wealthsimple
Mutating Mobile Gaming
Responsive design, content adaptation, automatically adjustable brightness and other techniques are meant to improve the end user experience. However, those techniques take in consideration device sensors input and not you… Read more…
Giorgio Natili
Akamai Technologies
Only You Can Prevent Skynet
A.I. is becoming both a business tool & a consumer product. It is a major design challenge & filled with intoxicating possibilities. Let’s play that futurism out and then discover how… Read more…
Jared Ficklin
argodesign
Open Sourcing the Secret Sauce
Hear and walk away with the best open source libraries and tools Jam3 has produced out of its collection of over 100 repositories. Learn how an award-winning agency has gone… Read more…
Out of the Box
Michael Muller is often referred to as “the most successful photographer you’ve never heard of”. Closing in on three decades of shooting, Michael’s body of work crosses over every aspect… Read more…
Michael Muller
MULLER PHOTO INC.
Overdrive
The landscape of design is never a smooth terrain.
James White of the Signalnoise Studio had a rough 2015. It was a year of change, peril, emotion and distraction which… Read more…
James White
Signalnoise
PageCloud Reimagines The Future of Website Creation
Sponsored by
The way we publish to the Web is broken. For years, we’ve relied on pre-built HTML templates inside content management systems as our only way to publish content… Read more…
Craig Fitzpatrick
PageCloud
Premium Audio on the Web
The web stands as a ubiquitous, pervasive platform with unmatched access for digital entertainment. As HTML5 fills the gaps between the flat, 2-dimensional experiences of old to bring flowing animations… Read more…
Titus Blair
Dolby Technologies
Programming Play
The dreaded moment: you feel stagnant, creatively uninspired, maybe even, dare I say it… burnt out? Whether it’s a result of long hours or boredom through familiarity, being blocked can… Read more…
Stacey Mulcahy
Microsoft Garage
Prolific Minded
Ash will be discussing his goals as a creative person. How he dreams big and puts forth optimism, hard work, and focus to obtain his goals. He will break down how he started to teach himself how… Read more…
Ash Thorp
Ashthorp.com
Real World Designing and Prototyping
We’ve all had the experience of having designed the perfect comp: stylish photos, perfectly sized names, and the right amount of copy only to have everything fall apart in the… Read more…
Paul Trani
Adobe
Shit Will Hit the Fan
Everyone can probably tell a story of a last-minute situation that jeopardizes an entire project and months of hard work. Building interactive installations means mixing and matching technologies, bridging physical… Read more…
Sketch Duet: An Experiment In Co-Creativity
What would two painters improvising look like? Improv Canvas is a real-time collaborative drawing tool that preserves the personal pen or brush stroke for a visual conversation. The project transforms… Read more…
Alon Chitayat
Google
Story-Driven Innovation
R&D (research and development) is not something that the entertainment industry is known for. But as narrative and code collide, new forms and functions of storytelling emerge. A culture of… Read more…
Lance Weiler
Talking VR Turkey
If it weren’t so important, and as some VIP once said — “the final platform” — VR could well be the topic most likely to elicit an eyeroll right now.… Read more…
The Collective Throwdown
Watch as these industry vets grill each other on their process, routine, stories of failure, inspirations and EVERYTHING in between. All truth. Read more…
The Door is Always Open
Los Angeles-based Gary Baseman explores the “beauty of the bittersweetness of life” through painting, performance, film and fashion. Current projects include a collaboration with COACH ready-to-wear for the Spring 2015… Read more…
Gary Baseman
garybaseman.com
The Essential Space Between Working and Not Working
This talk will explore workstyle and lifestyle design, and how we can optimize the space in between to allow us to explore new verticals and dive into the unknown. We… Read more…
Steve Tam
Snips
The Power of Play in Experimental Design
The current design landscape is in flux, a confluence of disciplines, practices, and open collaborations. A response to the never-ending push for something unique, this scenario forces us into never-before-tried… Read more…
Claudia Chagüi De León
Fake Love
The Rise Of Experiential Design – What You Need To Succeed
“Why does Experiential Design matter?” Within his talk, Jason answers this question by delving into the current state of affairs within the creative industry, discussing its newest and most exciting… Read more…
Jason White
Leviathan
The Signalnoise Podcast
James White of the Signalnoise Studio is trying something a little different… he’s decided to record an episode of the Signalnoise Podcast in front of a live studio audience; just… Read more…
James White
Signalnoise
The Ultimate Branding Tool Box
If you were a product what box would you come in? If you were a business what uniform would your staff wear? In a world where millionaires are made on… Read more…
Johnny Cupcakes
Johnny Cupcakes
The Unknown: Running A Creative-Driven Business
We work at the intersection of art and commerce. In art and music — from the outset — the creator doesn’t know where he or she will end up. On the other hand, commercial… Read more…
Wilson Brown
Antfood
Things I Learned Building My First App
Through ups and downs, lessons and rewards, I successfully launched my first app last year. It took far more planning than I had anticipated with lots of steps that I… Read more…
Haris Mahmood
Shopify
Things Imperfect
Brendan will prove that any object, anything that is designed or made, can and should be imbued with the capacity to be loved. To him, that means creating objects with almost… Read more…
Brendan Dawes
brendandawes.com
Titles or GTFO: 100 Years of Title Design in Film, TV, and Beyond
Title sequence design is an art form at the nexus of filmmaking, graphic design, and marketing. In this talk, Lola Landekic and Will Perkins of Art of the Title will… Read more…
Toronto Virtual Reality Revolution
2016 is the year that virtual reality hits the consumer market with at least five major VR platforms coming from heavyweights such as Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung and Valve. Take… Read more…
TouchDesigner as a Playground
Greg Hermanovic and Markus Heckmann will give an inside look at new tools, prototypes, features and concepts in TouchDesigner as they come freshly baked from the oven at Derivative. Read more…
Unhooked: Using Human-Centered Product Design to Deconstruct Nasty Habits
The most engaging digital products encourage habits within their users, habits that hook us into coming back over and over again. Liam used the design principles of habit-forming products to analyze,… Read more…
Liam Oscar Thurston
Loblaw Digital
Web Developers, Please Meet… the Physical World!
If you are a web developer, you already have most of the necessary knowledge to get started in physical computing. This talk will show you how easy it is to… Read more…
Jean-Philippe Côté
TangibleJS
When Clients Bare it All
By sharing client interaction and vulnerability, be privy to a tattooers questions, doubts, and candid commentary on the artistic process.
Topics include: vulnerability, design process and implementation, client translation, technology in an… Read more…
David Allen
Allen Tattoo
Workshop – Physical Computing for Web Developers
Note: This workshop is on SATURDAY April 16, from 10am to 5pm, and requires a separate ticket purchase.
In this workshop, web developers will discover how they can leverage their existing… Read more…
Jean-Philippe Côté
TangibleJS
Workshop – Rapid Prototyping with Sketch + Invision
Note: This workshop is on SATURDAY April 16, from 10am to 5pm, and requires a separate ticket purchase.
This workshop will get you to dive into UX prototyping using a combination of… Read more…
Dakoda Reid
Opera
Your Job Title Sounds Made Up
(Gurus, Ninjas and Other Actual Real Fake Titles)
If you think that a job title like ‘Social Interaction Strategist’ sounds completely made up, that’s okay – it was. In fact, it… Read more…
Helen Androlia
Juniper Park \ TBWA
