There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog
I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.
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Creativity cannot be computed
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Beyond Tellerrand.
My IndieWeb Journey
The slides from a lovely talk by Ana with an important message:
By having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets. That’s right. Whether you participate in the IndieWeb community or not: by having your own personal website you are as indie web as it gets.
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) - YouTube
Wow! Grace Hopper has always been a hero to me, but I had no idea she was such a fantastic presenter. She’s completely engaging, with the timing and deadpan delivery of a stand-up comedian at times.
The web we want: A beginner’s guide to the IndieWeb · Paul Robert Lloyd
This is a terrific presentation from Paul. He gives a history lesson and then focuses on what makes the indie web such a powerful idea (hint: it’s not about specific technologies).
You should go to conferences - localghost
Obviously I’m biased, but I very much agree with Sophie.
The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture - St Bride Foundation
Oh, this looks like an excellent event (in London and online):
Adventures in Episodic Type Design
With David Jonathan Ross
Thursday 17th October 2024
Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma) - YouTube
Everyone’s raving about this great talk by Marcin, and rightly so!
With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd
Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.
As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
A very thought-provoking presentation from Maggie on how software development might be democratised.
The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good - YouTube
I wasn’t able to tune into this live (“tune in?” what century is this?) but I’ve enjoyed catching up with the great talks like:
- Hints & Suggestions (First, Do No Harm) by Miriam Suzanne
- Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own by Henry Desroches
- Come to the light side: HTML Web Components by Chris Ferdinandi
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
Great stuff from Maggie—reminds of the storyforming workshop I did with Ellen years ago.
Mind you, I disagree with Maggie about giving a talk’s outline at the beginning—that’s like showing the trailer of the movie you’re about to watch.
Patternsday 2024 – Photos by Marc Thiele
Lovely photos by Marc from Patterns Day!
Patterns Day Patterns | Trys Mudford
Trys threads the themes of Patterns Day together:
Jeremy did a top job of combining big picture and nitty-gritty talks into the packed schedule.
Breadcrumbs, buttons and buy-in: Patterns Day 3 | hidde.blog
A nice write-up of Patterns Day from Hidde.
Return to UX London – Smithery
I’m very excited that John is speaking at this year’s UX London!
Responsive typography and its role in design systems | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
Okay, if you weren’t already excited for Patterns Day, get a load of what Rich is going to be talking about!
You’ve got your ticket, right?
Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023 - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.
Let’s reinvent the wheel ⚒ Nerd
Vasilis gives the gist of his excellent talk at the border:none event that just wrapped up in Nuremberg. The rant at the end chimed very much with my feelings on this topic:
I showed a little interaction experiment that one of my students made, with incredible attention to detail. Absolutely brilliant in so many ways. You would expect that all design agencies would be fighting to get someone like that into their design team. But to my amazement she now works as a react native developer.
I have more of these very talented, very creative designers who know how to code, who really understand how the web works, who can actually design things for the web, with the web as a medium, who understand the invisible details, who know about the UX of HTML, who know what’s possible with modern HTML and CSS. Yet when they start working they have to choose: you either join our design team and are forced to use a tool that doesn’t get it, or you join the development team and are forced to use a ridiculous framework and make crap.
ARIA, the good parts
The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Paris Web—a great overview of using and misusing ARIA.