Video from An Event Apart
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“Scenario-Driven Design Systems” by Yesenia Perez-Cruz—An Event Apart video
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.
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“Beyond Engagement: the Content Performance Quotient” by Jeffrey Zeldman—An Event Apart video
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.
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“The Joy of Optimizing Images” by Una Kravets – An Event Apart video
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.
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“Evaluating Technology” by Jeremy Keith – An Event Apart video
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.
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“Digital Marketing Strategies for the Busy ‘Web Master’” by Sarah Parmenter – An Event Apart video
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.
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“10 Things You Can and Should Do with SVG” by Chris Coyier – An Event Apart video
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.
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“Performance as User Experience” by Aaron Gustafson—An Event Apart video
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.
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“Choose Your Animation Adventure” by Val Head—An Event Apart video
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?
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“Prototyping: The Scientific Method of Business” by Daniel Burka—An Event Apart Denver 2017
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.
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“The Last Ten Percent” by Cassie McDaniel – An Event Apart video
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.
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“Measuring the Customer Experience” by Gerry McGovern – An Event Apart video
The best way to understand digital user experience is to measure the time and effort required to complete top tasks. That’s why the most successful digital brands, from Amazon to Google, are relentless in their focus on saving their customers time. To succeed as these companies do, we must discard our organization-centric model of production, and accurately measure task completion and time-on-task.
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“From Research to Redesign” by Jeffrey Zeldman—An Event Apart video
Meaningful redesigns start with research. From competitive surveys to making sense of analytics, and from stakeholder interviews to customer research, every fact we uncover is another step in the direction of a design that solves real problems. In this hour-long presentation captured live at An Event Apart Denver, An Event Apart co-founder Jeffrey Zeldman shows how, the more you learn about your product’s business strategy and its customer’s needs and desires, the better your designs will work.