Recent Talks
The thesis: Domain experts on the design team can be empowered to collaborate with the developers in creating prototypes. The application layer of the prototype software can be made code-free and replaced by a graphical language.
This is a self-paced slide show with some screen videos showing actual use of the wiring tool in developing the menu browser and the shopping cart parts of a simple restaurant order-entry application.
Given: MuCon London, November 7, 2017
The thesis: By focusing on hands-on simplicity we arrive at a flow-model design language that provides a continuous path from behavior description to running prototype.
This is a self-paced slide show with screen videos.
Given: DDD Europe, Amsterdam, February 2, 2017
The thesis: We learn from what's known about childhood development and derive a set of design principles for understanding and building applications.
This is a video made from my original slides, including screen videos, with voice-over added later. Apologies for the high audio level.
Given: BuildStuff 2015, Vilnius and Kiev, November 2015
The thesis: I examine the information about the F-35 fighter plane program publicly available at the time. The subject is complexity and technological overreach.
This is a pdf made from my original slides, complete with graphics.
Given: Reser 2013 workshop, Baltimore, October 9, 2013
The thesis: Here is a conceptual application model with a wiring-diagram use-case part that can be created by a non-programmer. All the other coded parts of the application are attached to components of the wiring diagram by self-explanatory APIs. This model should be useful for prototyping.
This is a self-paced slide show with some screen videos showing actual use of the wiring tool.
Given: Craft Conference, Budapest, May 11, 2018
The thesis: The pieces are now in place for a major new appendage to emerge from the economy: a sub-economy of ordinary people building applications.
Four questions are asked, and answers are proposed:
1. How Can a Consumer-built Application Economy be Enabled?
2. What Application Model Supports this Application Economy?
3. How Can a Multisided Platform be the Foundation of this Economy?
4. How Can the Economy be Jump-started?
Given: AIT Workshops, Anguilla, February 3-5, 2019
The thesis: This is the culmination of the evolution of several previous talks. It presents the "Two-faced Program Model" as the basis for engaging business people from the client organization in the construction of working prototypes.
It is a self-paced slide show with screen videos showing actual use of the wiring tool. There is no audio.
Given: GOTO Berlin, Berlin, October 31 to November 2, 2018