Event 8 talks 6 experts 9 topics 7h 51m
An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design and development for two days of inspiration and enlightenment, plus an optional “A Day Apart” third day focused on a single, essential topic. Each conference session builds on the one before it; each topic is essential to the practice of modern web design and development.
More often than not, the mobile experience for a web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Learn the three reasons web applications should be designed for mobile first: mobile is exploding; mobile forces you t...
Jared M. Spool discusses the surprisingly unintuitive logic behind the creation of "intuitive" websites. When a web page works, your users know exactly what to do. Everything makes sense, and they accomplish their goal, pleased with your site. ...
For years, we’ve been telling designers: the web is not print. You can’t have pixel-perfect layouts. You can’t determine how your site will look in every browser, on every platform, on every device. We taught designers to cede control, think in sy...
When the institutions we’ve appointed to judge our best work don’t understand the nature or value of that work, then our clients, bosses, and coworkers won’t understand it either. And their lack of understanding can put crippling limits on your pr...
When most people think of Responsive Design, they think of fluid grids and adapting the layout of components in a site or application. But design goes far beyond layout. How far? Derek Featherstone starts by combining content, context, and beha...
The rules of design engagement are changing. You may no longer be in control of the user’s visual experience. Learn the number one job of every web designer, how to persuade clients and bosses not to subject users to dark patterns, why the days of...
Designing for multichannel content delivery (mobile, anyone?) means an entirely new set of considerations and challenges for web professionals everywhere. Unfortunately for content creators, it’s nearly impossible to predict whether their writi...
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