Thoughts 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

July 29, 2019 - Day 1, Session 5 Rachel who has written mountains of books has been working in the web almost as long as he has, is a member of the CSS working group, and is a member of the W3C working group, and flies more than any other human he knows. - EM She is...