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Pretty much every company out there already has a website. That means pretty much every customer you take on has been through a web design and development process already. That also means they’ll all bring their baggage from past experiences to your project. In this session, Ben will share how the flexibility we build into […]
In today’s mobile world, providing design deliverables within the browser creates a more productive experience for your clients and your team. And while this means a shift from Photoshop to Sublime, it isn’t just a code shift. The design process remains integral and informs every web-based deliverable. Using a real client case study, Lea will […]
Color is one of the first things we learn how to do in CSS — and yet many of us don’t ever go further than typing hex numbers handed to us by a designer. But getting colors to appear on a screen is just the beginning. Discover the secrets behind CSS color values, and how […]
Collaboration requires us to share our work; to communicate our ideas with one another and to collect other’s thoughts to know whether the designs we’re producing are meeting the objectives of the project. But often we wrestle with collecting feedback. We get comments that are less then helpful because they seem irrelevant or unclear. Or […]
Whether you call yourself a designer or a developer or a strategist or something else, the work we do is creative work. Many teams are now doing this work from multiple locations, spread out across cities, states and even countries. In this session we’ll look at the fundamental building blocks for creative work, and how […]
Lessons learned within top product teams from Twitter to The White House; from ideation to launch. Short stories on working within different product teams on launching “world class product”. Each story will be from a different company on a different stage of the build process from Mashable to Apple to Oracle to Twitter to The […]
With an aging population and possible legislation changes around the corner, it’s more important than ever that we build a more beautiful, accessible web for **all** our users. It’s a responsibility that goes beyond government agencies and 508 compliance. With a little education and creative thinking, accessibility is achievable without changing our tools, our budgets, […]
A good comprehensive intro to Element Queries. How to use them, where to use them and some pitfalls to look out for.
There are countless articles touting the superiority of native apps over web. “60fps”, full access to hardware, “jank free”, and so on. While these points are certainly valid, I think the hype has skewed the public perception of the potential power of web-based apps. Sure, we can’t do access everything from the browser, but we […]
Discover the benefits of using Sass, a CSS pre-processor, along with Compass to help streamline front-end development, collaborate with other developers, and overall to help you enjoy writing CSS. The workshop will be divided up into 4 sections: basic, intermediate, advanced and tools of the trade and other fun tricks. You’ll need to bring your […]
This talk will be an introduction to React, an ultra-fast, somewhat opinionated user-interface library from Facebook. React is a joy to use and boasts great performance on both desktop and mobile devices. More than just another library, React encourages developers to take approaches that make the resulting code simpler to understand, more predictable in behavior, […]
My early career started as a motion designer for ABC, Discovery Channel, FoxSports, AMC and the NFL Network. Fast forward 10 years and I am now carving out best practices for motion design as a driving force for UX. This talk will focus on achieving new interactive paradigms by dissecting large and small format touch […]