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“Why Design Systems Fail” by Una Kravets
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.