Thoughts

Progressive Web Apps: Where Do I Begin? by Aaron Gustafson
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 3 @aarongustafsonnoti.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...

Leveling up Design Communication by Aarron Walter
July 31, 2019 | Day 3, Session 1 VP of Design Communication at InVision He has a lot of experience with teams and helping those teams talk to o Has anybody ever used a microscope? He remembers 8th grade biology class using a microscope. And what he remembers is it was...

What Has Changed And Where Is It Going by Dave Rupert
July 30, 2019 | Day 2 - Session 6 Dave Rupert is pretty much just the coolest. He’s from Austin, We are entering the 9th or 10th year of responsive web design and he thinks it’s a good time to step back and reflect on where we’ve been and where we are now. He’s been...

Data Basics by Laura Martini
She is a Senior Interactive Designer at Google and has a nutso-fabulous resume. Figuring out what to build and how to build it really well is a very important part of our jobs and data is a great way to do that. We’ve all been in situations where we don’t agree with...

What is Design Ops? by Kevin Hoffman
July 30, 2019 | Day 2 Session 4 A LOT goes into what a word means to us and the world. If I say Batman who do you think of? Could be lots of different people! The way we think about the environment is only as bold as we think about batman. We use it to refer to this...

SVG Filters – A Crash Course by Sara Soueidan
She’s a world renown freelance developer all the way from Lebanon. She won an O’Reilly Web Platform award among written books @sarasoueidan sarasoueidan.com Front-end developer specializing in html semantics, modern web design, modern CSS, accessibility, etc. She also...

Animation on the Bleeding Edge by Sarah Drasner
July 30, 2019 | Day 2 - Session 2 Head of developer experience at Netlify, is a core member of the Vue JS team and a staff writer at CSS Tricks. This is a special An Event Apart for me - a lot of people ask her if she’s self-taught. She doesn’t have a degree but she...

Making Motion Inclusive by Val Head
July 30, 2019 | Day 2 - Session 1 SVG animation talk She’s going to talk about 2 things we don’t think go together: Motion & Inclusive design It’s a misconception that inclusivity and accessibility come with a cost in terms of design or motion (how we want it to...

Designing Intrinsic Layouts by Jen Simmons
July 29, 2019 - Day 1, Session 6 @jensimmons and @rachelandrew are responsible in large part for the CSS grid support we have today - their teaching and analyzing and arguing is a large part of why we have what we have today in terms of CSS and grid on the web. Jen is...