News from An Event Apart
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SVG Filters: The Crash Course with Sara Soueidan
Sara Soueidan’s first-ever AEA appearance was a tip-filled crash course on SVG filters: why they’re awesome, how they work, and how to use them to create a dazzling range of inspiring and powerful special effects.
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Same Bat-Time! Same Bat-Channel! by Mike Essl – An Event Apart video
What connects Batman, Wonder Woman, Thomas Edison, Madonna, Bazooka Joe, and Alfred E. Neuman? Is it type? Is it graphic design? Who is Peter Cooper? Find out in this special inspirational presentation by Mike Essl, Dean of The Cooper Union School of Art.
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Meeting Expectations: A Few Words with Kevin M. Hoffman
From designing meetings to the US Digital Service, Kevin M. Hoffman knows what makes a good team. We spent a few minutes talking about his favorite work tools and making .gov work better.
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“Maintaining Design Systems” by Brad Frost – An Event Apart video
In this 60-minute presentation from An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Brad Frost shares strategies and methods to ensure that your design system stands the test of time. You’ll learn how to keep your system and the products it serves in sync, and you'll understand how to maintain and evolve your design system to give your users get the best possible experience.
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Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Boston 2019
An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart Boston 2019.
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“Why Design Systems Fail” by Una Kravets
In this 60-minute presentation from An Event Apart Orlando 2018, Una Kravets explores what makes design systems successful, analyzes real examples of success and failure, and shows how to make sure your design system has the building blocks it needs to grow into a successful product.
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The Survey for Web & UX Professionals
Attention, front-enders and UX-ers. Listen up, designers and coders, writers and strategists. The wait is over: it’s time to take this year’s Survey for Web and UX Professionals—brought to you, as always, by An Event Apart and A List Apart.
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Taking the Long View: A Few Words With Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton is an accessibility expert living and hiking in the Pacific Northwest. We took a few minutes to talk with her about Gatsby, favorite tools, and CSS.
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“Tech Humanism: Data, Meaning, and Human Experience” by Kate O’Neill
In this 60-minute presentation, “Tech Humanist” Kate O’Neill presents the case for why the future of humanity is in creating more meaningful, dimensional, and integrated experiences, and shows how emerging technologies like chatbots, wearables, IoT devices, and more can be included in this kind of human-centric design.
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Talking Type and Tools with Jason Pamental
Jason Pamental is a typography expert and consultant based near Providence, RI, where he thinks deeply about web typography and takes his dogs Tristan and Tillie for long walks. We managed to catch up with him and the pups to ask a few questions.
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“Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed” by Jen Simmons
We’re standing at the threshold of an entirely new era in digital design—one in which, rather than hacking layouts together, we can actually describe layouts directly. The benefits will touch everything from prototyping to custom art direction to responsive design.
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The Animated Future: A Few Words with Sarah Drasner
Sarah Drasner is a core member of the Vue team, Lead of Emerging Markets with the Cloud Advocates team at Microsoft, and an inveterate pusher of the boundaries of the web with experiments and techniques, as well as her articles at popular site CSS-Tricks. We chatted with her for a few minutes between projects.
