News from An Event Apart

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.

January 08, 2019

Images are by far the greatest bottleneck to performance on the web. What’s a web designer or developer to do? In this engaging talk recorded live at An Event Apart Denver 2017, Una Kravets surveys new image formats and dives deeply into image rendering and performance optimization techniques, demonstrating practical approaches to making your web projects noticeably faster.

December 18, 2018

We work with technology every day. And every day it seems there's more and more technology to understand: graphic design tools, build tools, frameworks and libraries, not to mention new HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features landing in browsers. In which technologies should we invest our time in? Jeremy Keith helps us learn to evaluate tools and technologies in a way that best benefits the people who use the websites we design and develop. Look at some of the hottest new web technologies like service workers and web components. And dig beneath the hype to find out whether they’ll really change life on the web for the better.

December 11, 2018

Thanks to dwindling attention spans and the pace at which online content refreshes, reaching through the screens of our customers to hold their attention is becoming increasingly difficult. In this 60-minute presentation, Sarah Parmenter discusses the idea of quarterly website design reviews with a “design once use everywhere” mantra, and digs into the ever-changing world of Instagram algorithms, Facebook marketing, and topical social media takeaways for immediate implementation.

December 08, 2018

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

December 04, 2018

You’re already aware of SVG. You already know it’s a vector image format. But how does that affect your daily life as a front-end developer and designer? In this fun, compelling, and information-packed live presentation recorded at An Event Apart Denver 2017, Chris Coyier counts down 10 things you could (and should!) be doing with SVG.

November 27, 2018

Design is problem solving. Each and every day, we are tasked with finding ways to reduce the friction our users experience on the Web. That means streamlining flows, reducing cognitive load, and writing more appropriate copy, but user experience goes far beyond the interface. Our users’ experiences begin with their first request to our servers.

November 20, 2018

Animation has come a long way on the modern web and now we have a long list of choices for how to make something move on screen: CSS, JavaScript, SVG, the Web Animation API. With so many options, how can you be sure which is the best choice for your project?

November 13, 2018

For years, designers and developers have adapted prototyping and research to answer the most pressing questions that businesses face. Daniel Burka shows how you can level up your effectiveness by answering the right questions, working at the right level of fidelity, involving a diverse group of experts, and researching at the right speed.

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.