Video from An Event Apart
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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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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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“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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“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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“Tech Humanism: Data, Meaning, and Human Experience” by Kate O’Neill
In this 60-minute presentation, “Tech Humanist” Kate O’Neill presents the case for why the future of humanity is in creating more meaningful, dimensional, and integrated experiences, and shows how emerging technologies like chatbots, wearables, IoT devices, and more can be included in this kind of human-centric design.
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“Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed” by Jen Simmons
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.
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“Fit For Purpose: Making Sense of the New CSS” by Eric Meyer
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.
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“Graduating to Grid” by Rachel Andrew
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.
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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.
