News from An Event Apart
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“Making Motion Inclusive” by Val Head—An Event Apart video
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It’s a common misconception that things like inclusive design and accessibility only come at the cost of design details like motion, but that’s just not the case. Whether it’s microinteractions, animated illustrations, or larger animated experiences, a little care and consideration can go a long way towards getting the best of both worlds
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“Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World” by Margot Bloomstein—An Event Apart video
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Who can we trust—and how do our users invest their trust? As our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
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“Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart video
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What do CSS features like CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes mean for our design medium? How might we better leverage the art of graphic design? How will we create something practical, usable, and realistically doable?
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An Event Apart Boston and Minneapolis Schedules Announced
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Ready to sharpen your skills and deepen your insights into the work you love? The full, detailed agendas for our Boston (June 29-July 1) and Minneapolis (August 17-19) shows are now available.
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“Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS” by Rachel Andrew—An Event Apart video
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Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. We can use our new powers to build the same designs faster, or we can start to ask ourselves what we might do if we were solving these problems afresh.
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“Generation Style” by Eric Meyer—An Event Apart video
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What good is CSS generated content, really? What can we do with it? What are its limitations? And how far can we push content generation in a new landscape full of flexible boxes, grids, and more?
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“Designing for Personalities” by Sarah Parmenter—An Event Apart video
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Just as our designs today must accommodate differences of gender, cultural background, and other factors, it’s time to create apps, websites, and internal processes that account for still another strand of human diversity: our very different personality types.
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Carbon Offsets and Captioning
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As our 2020 event schedules take shape, we have two new initiatives to tell you about that will affect every show this year.
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“Slow Design for an Anxious World” by Jeffrey Zeldman – An Event Apart video
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Jeffrey Zeldman shows us how to create designs that deliberately slow down our visitors, helping them understand more of what our organization is communicating, and make better decisions as a result.
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Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event San Francisco 2019
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An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart San Francisco 2019.
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Join us in 2020 and save big; our holiday gift to you!
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It’s the holiday season, so we’ve decided to have a little celebration. From Friday, December 13 through the last day of 2019, you’ll be able to use a special discount code that will take $200 off any two- or three-day pass to any of our 2020 events.
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Articles, Links, and Tools From An Event Apart Denver 2019
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An in-progress compendium of articles, links, tools, and other resources shared by our speakers at An Event Apart Denver 2019.