Points Brighton - Networking & Speaker Event

I attended ‘Points’ this week, a web developer and design event held at the Media Centre.

Speakers included Paul Davis an avid developer/designer up for young developer of the year award. He spoke about useful Wordpress requests /code and why you should try not to use plug-ins. The later part of the speech was about LESS, I’ve heard of LESS before and been recommended it but never really understood the benefits - perhaps I’ll give it a go and see if it can help me write quicker (and better) code. 

The next talk was really interesting - about the golden ratio/rule (I just wrote down it’s apparently represented in maths like phi = 1.618…mad) - Interesting things that use the Golden Ratio are the twitter layout and the apple logo. The talk was by Alex Sexton who’s studied Geology and spent a large amount of time looking and shells and nature - he now applies mathematic rules (and logic) to design and the web. He also covered the Fibonacci Scale which proved interesting, he applied the rule to type sizing.

Kris Noble spoke about Frameworks and how and when to use them. Considering I use jQuery and MooTools it was definitely useful, also made me realise I could never be a developer - I also learnt a few new tricks 

Anthony Killen was the last speaker, he designs out of passion rather than for his day job which is quite inspiring. He spoke about the importance of local meetups within the design community etc and to be honest, I think it is really important - especially at this stage (university) because you can get so much more than just a degree: gain useful tips and knowledge from real people not just the internet.

There was also a lovely raffle - not really done many raffles before but half the proceeds went to charity and the rest to the speakers  all the proceeds went to charity so I thought it’d be a good and proper thing to do - I only went and won a prize! A years hosting which is absolutely brilliant!

Thanks to Mike Street who organised the event and to all the speakers. You can find them here kris, mike, alex, anthony 

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