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Performance Is Accessibility
by Scott Jehl An Event Apart Online Together - Human Centered Design 1:30pm Central Performance is PART of Accessibility - it’s a subset. When you optimize performance, you optimize accessibility too. In that phrase you can think accessibility in 2 ways: Improving...
I Brake for Users: Content Strategy for Slower Experiences
by Margot Bloomstein An Event Apart Online Together - Human Centered Design 2020 11:15am Central How and why users should have slow experiences, not fast. "I’ve always been a fan of anticipation. It’s not that the journey is better than the destination, but she thinks...
Working Together in Diverse Teams
by Farai Madzima An Event Apart Online Together, Human Centered Design 2020 10am Central We Are The Tech Industry He loves hip hop. He was born in Zimbabwe and lived there for the first 18 years of his life. He loved hip hop so much he started talking like them. You...
Well Said: Giving Your Content a Voice
By Preston So When was the first conversation? What WAS that first conversation? Spoken language has left no trace on our planet. Unlike some of the evidence we have for early humans that indicate the kind of cultural mannerisms that really characterize the human...
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...
Prosper Living – April/May 2020
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