News from An Event Apart

November 07, 2018

Brandon Gregory considers how to design accessibly for cognitive differences like anxiety disorders, inattention, and depression.

November 06, 2018

You’ve been grinding for weeks. You’ve done your due diligence and tested designs with users and colleagues. You’ve spoken to the client, they’re convinced you’re amazing. Everything looks great in every browser, on every popular device. You think you’re done. But you’re not done, you’re just getting started.

October 30, 2018

The best way to understand digital user experience is to measure the time and effort required to complete top tasks. That’s why the most successful digital brands, from Amazon to Google, are relentless in their focus on saving their customers time. To succeed as these companies do, we must discard our organization-centric model of production, and accurately measure task completion and time-on-task.

October 26, 2018

Semantic markup has always mattered, but with voice interfaces rapidly becoming the norm, it now matters more than ever. Aaron Gustafson shows us how simple HTML tags can have a huge impact with voice interfaces.

October 23, 2018

Meaningful redesigns start with research. From competitive surveys to making sense of analytics, and from stakeholder interviews to customer research, every fact we uncover is another step in the direction of a design that solves real problems. In this hour-long presentation captured live at An Event Apart Denver, An Event Apart co-founder Jeffrey Zeldman shows how, the more you learn about your product’s business strategy and its customer’s needs and desires, the better your designs will work.

October 16, 2018

While many of us seek out the newest and shiniest tools, methods, and processes to build more successful products and services, we often overlook one of the oldest, leanest, most effective tools out there: the structurally sound story. In the moment, we humans experience everything as if it were a story. The better the story, the more likely we are to want to use a product, continue to use it, pay to use it, and recommend it to others.

October 09, 2018

We constantly stress-test our work by subjecting it to a wide variety of devices, by simulating different connection speeds, and by testing it under extreme server load scenarios. But have you ever stress-tested your work for unexamined assumptions, emotional minefields, or usability in situations of extreme distraction?

October 06, 2018

An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart Orlando 2018.

October 02, 2018

When CSS Grid Layout shipped into multiple browsers in the Spring of 2017 it heralded the dawn of a new way to do layout on the web. In this video, captured live at An Event Apart Denver: Special Edition, Rachel Andrew looks at what went right or wrong in these first few months, and offers help to those struggling to transition away from legacy methods.

September 25, 2018

Level Access’s Derek Featherstone shows how to take your work to a new level by integrating accessibility and inclusion into your existing design and development process. You'll walk away with real-world examples of making accessibility live in your automation tools, style guides, pattern libraries, and design systems, ready to create a more accessible and inclusive web.

September 18, 2018

Clients, stakeholders, and users all want “obvious,” easy-to-use designs that help them achieve their goals. But making obvious interfaces isn't as obvious as it seems, especially when many stakeholders and users are involved. In this presentation captured live at An Event Apart, Google Product Director Luke Wroblewski takes you behind the scenes to explore the thinking, processes, and iterations that go into an “obvious” design change.

September 11, 2018

Even if you aren’t the most persuasive speaker or the most powerful person in your organization, you can get your stakeholders to set aside personal agendas in favor of shared standards and strategy. Kristina Halvorson shows how in this 60-minute presentation caught live at An Event Apart Denver 2017.