An Event Apart 2008: Back to Beantown

March 19, 2008

An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, is pleased to announce the detailed schedule for An Event Apart Boston 2008. Join us June 23rd & 24th at the Boston Marriott Copley Place for two jam-packed 9.5-hour-long days of learning and inspiration. You’ll hear about the very latest best practices in web design, standards adoption, user experience, front-end coding, and development strategies from…

• Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing With Web Standards, on the current state of web standards and understanding the very nature of web design itself
• Eric Meyer, author of CSS: The Definitive Guide, on the lessons we can draw from popular CSS frameworks and ways to use CSS to make your development and debugging easier
• Kimberly Blessing, Web Development Platform Team Lead at PayPal, on defining and spreading standards in the enterprise
• Doug Bowman, Visual Design Lead at Google, on design principles that scale up beyond your wildest dreams
• Andy Budd, author of CSS Mastery, on the nine keys to a perfect user experience
• Christopher Fahey, Founding Partner at Behavior, on the relationship between form, function, and style
• Peter-Paul Koch, author of ppk on JavaScript, on best practices in unobtrusive and maintainable scripting
• Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Web Standards Creativity, on bridging the gap between high-end design (and designers) and standards-compliant coding
• Jason Santa Maria, Designer at Happy Cog, on telling and evolving stories with great design
• Jared Spool, Founder of User Interface Engineering, on which of the five types of navigation page works best in which circumstances
• Jeff Veen, Design Manager at Google, on cutting through the Web 2.0 hype to find the design lessons embedded within
• Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design Best Practices, on the ways good design can smoothly guide users through web applications

Last year’s Boston show was a sold-out smash success, and seats are already going fast for this year’s. Don’t get left out!