Thoughts

Navigating Team Friction | Lara Hogan
April 3 @ 11:30am An Event Apart Seattle 2018 Lara started as a developer, then a few years later became a manager, and then she managed all of development at Etsy, and then was a VP at Kickstarter… it’s been a journey. Now she helps project and engineering teams get...

Performance As User Experience | Aaron Gustafson
April 3 @ 10:15am An Event Apart Seattle 2018 Ultimately what he’s talking about today is design. In most cases we want to help someone solve a task, so we work to reduce friction between the user accomplishing a task. We want to enable someone to do what they need to...

The Way of the Web | Jeremy Keith
April 2 @ 9am An Event Apart Seattle 2018 Jeremy is going to talk about the present and the future… and he’s going to start with the future. Plan 9 From Outer Space, one of the worst movies ever made… a science fiction film sort of about the future. 2001: a space...

Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed | Jen Simmons
April 2 @ 4:30pm An Event Apart Seattle 2018 Writing this talk was REALLY HARD for her… like, really? She’s gonna stand up there are say that EVERYTHING we know has changed? But she really does believe we are at a inflection point with graphic design and web layout…...

Fit For Purpose: Making Sense of the New CSS | Eric Meyer
April 2 @ 3:15pm An Event Apart Seattle 2018 Feature Queries @supports ( ) { } You can tell the browser - hey… I have a question - do you support this feature? @supports (display: grid) { /* Grid stuff goes here in case it is supported */ } If you haven’t used...

Graduating to Grid | Rachel Andrew
April 2, 2018 @ 2pm An Event Apart Seattle March 2017 the implementation of CSS grid happened very quickly across browsers. She’s been teaching about this emerging spec for years but when it shipped, she (or anyone else) had never shipped a grid website. For people,...

Scenario-Driven Design Systems | Yesenia Perez-Cruz
April 2, 2018 @ 11:30am An Event Apart Seattle @yeseniaa In the past few years we’ve seen a big change in the way people build on the web. We’ve had to build for a bigger range of devices and react rapidly to the fast change of technology. So we’ve adopted modular,...

Digital Marketing Strategies for the Busy “Web Master” | Sarah Parmenter
April 2 @ 10:15am An Event Apart Seattle 2018 She recently had an unexpected panic attack when asked for her job title, and she went through several like Art Director, UI/UX Designer, then settled on Designer… but honestly ‘Web Master’ fits what we do now a lot more...

Beyond Engagement: the Content Performance Quotient | Jeffrey Zeldman
An Event Apart, Seattle April 2, 2018 @ 9am I went to college at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. David Frost came to speak to them, and as he flew from city to city he forgot where he was… so when he arrived he seemed a little bit tipsy, and came up to the...

WooCommerce View Cart & Checkout Buttons Go To Website Home Page
I had the weirdest thing happen today and COULD NOT FIND AN ARTICLE ANYWHERE ONLINE about fixing it (which has literally never happened to me before when using WordPress or WooCommerce to build out a site). It seems like every question I ever have, someone else has...