Back from the Future Insights Live in Las Vegas

I had a blast at Future Insights Live in Vegas this week where I led a 1-day workshop on Building a Modular Front-end Application and gave a talk about Optimizing for Change (by using modular architectures).

The event was a great mix of content and people, excellently curated and executed. Big props to Sarah Robinson and Ellie Robinson who produced the conference.

Happy to have gotten to hang out with a bunch of really great people, such as Jonathan Stark, Hiten Shah (founder of KissMetrics and CrazyEgg), and seeing some friends from previous conferences like Scott Jenson.

Biggest takeaways:

From Hiten’s talk: Measure things, test things. So you can discover what actually works instead of blindly publishing things.

The Physical Web stuff that Scott is working on at Google is really awesome and is still going strong: https://google.github.io/physical-web/

From Jonathan’s keynote:

2 billion smart phones on the planet now. 4 billion predicted by 2020 (80% of adults).
– @jonathanstark at #FILIVE
— Henrik Joreteg (@HenrikJoreteg) June 2, 2015