News from An Event Apart

April 02, 2019

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.

March 26, 2019

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.

March 19, 2019

If 2017 was the year of new CSS capabilities, 2018 was the year of trying to figure out what to do with them all. What’s ready for production, and what’s useful in the shop? In this hour-long talk, Eric Meyer turns his experienced eye for CSS on the new technologies that emerged in 2018 and explores different ways of using and thinking about them.

March 12, 2019

Scott Jehl has been a part of the Filament Group for the past 12 years as a web design and developer. We pulled him away from the beach long enough to get a few words about his favorite tools and how to keep performance from becoming an internal struggle.

March 07, 2019

Another year, another An Event Apart playlist! 2019 offers a winsome and energetic blend of the popular and the obscure, the bouncy and the boomy, with something for nearly every listening taste.

March 05, 2019

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.

March 03, 2019

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

February 26, 2019

Sara Soueidan is a freelance front-end developer and trainer based in Lebanon. She specializes in creating modern front-end foundations with focus on semantics, modern CSS, SVG, responsive design and accessibility. We asked her about her latest work, her favorite tools, and the hidden power of SVG filters.

February 19, 2019

Design systems are essential to building, maintaining, scaling, and evolving our sites and products, but creating a unified system that scales to serve a variety of content and use cases can be challenging. See how to approach a design system via a user-centered lens, and learn how being scenario-driven helps you create a scalable design system that responds flexibly to specific contexts.

February 19, 2019

Designers want to create fully branded experiences, which often results in customized highlighting colors or pixel-perfect typography. While these design touches can enhance the experience for some, they can render the experience inaccessible for others. Designer Eric Bailey makes a case for leaving key accessibility features to the browser to ensure the most accessible experience possible.

February 05, 2019

Our products are tasked with providing ever-higher levels of “engagement,” but should they be? In this 60-minute talk filmed live at An Event Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman introduces a new measure of design success: the content performance quotient.

January 29, 2019

A legendary industrial designer. An award-winning documentary filmmaker. And today’s leading UX and front-end visionaries. What do they have in common? They’re all part of An Event Apart 2019. Read on to learn how.