IPFS Camp 2024

Textile 2024 week 24 note

When you give a talk in front of a bunch of people you should probably have your facts straight. This is especially the case when you’re a designer giving a talk at a tech event, such as IPFS Camp in Brussels where I’ll be talking about Studio, which is something I’ve been working a lot on for the majority of the past year. The funny thing is as part of a design track, I just might be speaking to other designers who are also working on developer tools and the developer experience such as myself. This has then led me to reexamine just what I’ve been designing for and what the developer experience is for, meaning data and databases. So I had to go back and review just what those things mean and what they mean for interfaces and interactions. When you get lost in the weeds as it were with an application you’ve been working on for a while, you often lose track of the basics of what you’re doing, why data, why tables, why ownership, so having a talk as a forcing function to reexamine the first principles of your work is usually not a bad thing.