News from An Event Apart

August 25, 2019

An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.

August 13, 2019

They say hindsight is 20/20, but at An Event Apart, we’ll be bringing you foresight in 2020—just as we have every year since 2005—hand in glove with the immediate takeaways AEA is famous for. And we’ll be doing it all with 17 industry-leading speakers over three brilliant days of design, code and content.

August 07, 2019

Variable fonts include EVERY width, weight, slant, and other permutation of a typeface, all in a single file not much bigger than a regular font file. In this hour-long presentation captured live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Jason Pamental delves into the ins and outs of variable fonts, showing you not just how far the new capabilities can take us, but how to make use of them right away.

July 28, 2019

An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart DC 2019.

July 23, 2019

UI is language. Interaction is conversation. Content is the fuel that powers our designs. So what happens when the writer’s not in the room, or is missing from your project team altogether? In this dynamic presentation captured live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Kristina Halvorson shares language principles and content design tools anyone can put to work.

July 22, 2019

Designer Laura Martini shares her thoughts on Post-It notes and extracting useful insights from a flood of data.

July 18, 2019

InVision’s VP of Design Education on keeping notes sorted, his design podcast, and helping designers learn how to bring more awareness of their work to more of their organizations.

July 16, 2019

Content strategy veteran Margot Bloomstein on how trust deserves as much weight and empathy and empowerment in design and UX work.

July 09, 2019

In this 60-minute presentation captured live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Dan Mall shares a new design process that’s more inclusive, more collaborative, more productive, and even more fun. You’ll learn to sketch together to be more efficient and effective as a team; to decide in the browser more often; and even to write JSON for your developer. Discover new ways of shipping products at higher quality in record time.

June 25, 2019

Where should web design go next? In a passionate 60-minute presentation captured live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, designer Jon Tan makes a radical argument for recidivism in our design thinking: a return to durable, aesthetic, and inclusive web design.

June 11, 2019

In a dynamic 60-minute presentation recorded live at An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Val Head (Design Advocate, Adobe) shows how to harness the design details from different media to build overarching themes—themes that persist across all screen sizes and user and interface contexts, creating a bigger emotional impact and connection with your audience.

June 10, 2019

At AEA Boston, Val Head showed us how to build animated interactions with inclusivity in mind. Val shared how to apply web accessibility guidelines to modern web animation, when and how to implement reduced motion, and approaches to building up animated interactions for a solid standards base.