Thoughts
Inclusive Design: Thinking and Doing
By Derek Featherstone Introductions to people who have helped Derek learn about accessibility and inclusive design: Ashlee, Blake, Erica, and Dan These 4people are peers - they’ve worked in our industry. They’ve all helped Derek as he’s learned more about inclusive...
Now You See It: Understanding Display
By Rachel Andrew CSS1 became a recommendation in Dec 1996. In Aug of that year, IE3 shipped which was the first browser to have CSS support at all. The CSS1 specification is tiny but it contains the fundamentals of the language we use today. The CSS1 spec assumes a...
Remembrance of Tags Past
By Eric Meyer The web was first conceived around 1989. That’s a little bit over 30 years ago now. It’s long enough that we’ve largely forgotten a lot of things about the web, what it can do, and how it’s SUPPOSED to work. He’s had 3 web-related jobs: He was Webmaster...
The Mythology of Design Systems
by Mina Markham MYTH #1: Designers “own” the design system Mina describes herself as an engineer who designs. She had a conversation with a designer where she asked to contribute to a design system and she ended up being dismissed. The conversation of design systems...
Tools For Small Businesses Going Remote
Tools For Small Businesses Going Remote We transitioned our company to work remotely back in June of 2019, and we’ve been loving it ever since. We are total geeks and love finding tech tools that help us work better together as a remote team, and we thought in this...
How to change the size of blog image in the Divi blog module
Ok, so we've been pulling our gorgeous silky (cuz it's kinda greasy) hair out over here trying to get the Divi blog module to stop cropping one of our client's beautiful food images. Despite there being plenty of articles out there on WordPress media sizes, image...
The Customer-Obsessed Professional by Gerry McGovern
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 5 (The Grand Finale!) Note: Gerry did not disappoint. He’s funny as shit and his accent is delightful and his screenshots had hidden little nuggets in them that made the entire room burst out in laughter. Thank you from the bottom of my...
Inclusive, by Design by Derek Featherstone
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 4 Chief Experience Officer at Level Access We failed when we built this thing that was incredibly accessible. We were contracted by an organization to build them a custom accessible video player. Part of the reason they got that job was...
Progressive Web Apps: Where Do I Begin? by Aaron Gustafson
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 3 @aarongustafson noti.st/AaronGustafson Some of us may be wondering what the heck is a PWA? Progressive Web App What the heck is that? There are a lot of very smart people out there that question what exactly this is and what it means?...
Making Research County by Cyd Harrell
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 2 Research is sometimes a bit of a neglected flower in a lot of companies. So how many of us believe that user research is valuable? 10 years ago it was not that many hands. How many of your teams actually do user research on a regular...
