Here are the slides from a Barcamp Omaha talk I presented on September 8, 2012 about avatars. It is complete with a misspelling of my own name. The fonts got a little gross and the animated gifs aren't animating. http://imgur.com/q2tqz

18. AVATARS ARE NEAT!

19. PERSON-
ALITY!

20. VISUAL!

21. UNIQUE!

22. (BUT NOT ALWAYS)

23. A PROBLEM

24. SOMETIMES...

25. LACK PERSONALITY :(

26. AREN’T VISUAL :(

27. NOT UNIQUE :(

28. WHY?

29. WHY?

30. WELL...

32. PEOPLE
DON’T
ADD A
PHOTO

33. DEFAULT

40. THERE’S
GOTTA
BE A
BETTER
WAY!

44. AWESOME!

45. WE STILL HAVE A PROBLEM.

46. NOT EVERYONE USES
GRAVATAR.

49. WE NEED...

51. AUTOMAGIC!

52. ENTER IDENTICON

54. UNIQUE ID TO
GENERATE AN ICON

55. UNIQUE ID TO
GENERATE AN ICON
(YOU KNOW. MATH.)

59. NOW WE ARE GETTNG
SOMEWHERE.

60. BUT IT DOESN’T SEEM
PERSONABLE.

61. CREATURE
S,
MONSTERS
,
ROBOTS,
OH MY!

62. WAVATARS!

64. MONSTER ID

66. ROBOHASH

67. ROBOHASH

71. CUTE
!

72. CUTE FUN!
!
UNIQUE!

73. “BUT IT WON’T WORK FOR MY WEBSITE...”

74. “...I NEED SOMETHING THAT FITS MY BRAND.”

75. STANDING
ON THE
SHOULDERS
OF
ROBOTS...

80. WHEN
FORM IS
FUNCTION.

87. MOTHER

88. FATHER

89. AUNT

90. UNCLE

91. GRANDMA

92. GRANDPA

93. COUSIN

94. FRIEND

95. STRANGER

96. THINKING
OUTSIDE
THE
SQUARE.

100. ALEX
JOHN HOBBS
JOHN HENRY
BECCA

102. TO

103. TO
FROM

106. FINAL
THOUGHTS

107. THANK YOU!