News from An Event Apart
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Designing for Trust: A Few Words with Margot Bloomstein
Content strategy veteran Margot Bloomstein on how trust deserves as much weight and empathy and empowerment in design and UX work.
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“Till Launch Do Us Part,” by Dan Mall – An Event Apart video
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.
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“Durable Design” by Jon Tan—An Event Apart video
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.
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“Building More Expressive Products” by Val Head – An Event Apart video
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.
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Making Motion Inclusive, by Val Head
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.
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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.
