Notes from my week.
Continue reading Weeknotes 09.12–09.18Tag: accessibility
Weeknotes 07.11–07.17
Notes from my week.
Continue reading Weeknotes 07.11–07.17Weeknotes 03.15–03.20
Notes from my week.
Continue reading Weeknotes 03.15–03.20An Event Apart: “Why Design Systems Fail”
Una Kravets speaking at An Event Apart Orlando 2018 on October 9, 2018
Design systems are hot right now, and for good reason. They promote a modular approach to building a product, promote organizational unity, and ensure stability via reusable code snippets and utility styles. They make prototyping a breeze, and provide a common language for both designers and developers. But sometimes design systems are underutilized within organizations. Why is that, when they’re so darn useful? In an engaging hour, Una will draw on years of experience to explore what makes design systems successful, analyze real examples of success and failure, and show how to make sure your design system has the building blocks it needs to grow into a successful product.
An Event Apart: “Inclusive UX: Techniques for Everyone”
Derek Featherstone speaking at An Event Apart Seattle 2018 on April 4, 2018.
You and your teams are doing the things that need to be done to create inclusive designs. You’ve been using meaningful, semantic markup from the get-go. You stopped using light grey on slightly darker grey text years ago. Designing and building your apps and sites in an accessible way is just how you work now—you have to try really hard to make things that don’t work with a keyboard. So, what’s next for you? How can you make sure that you’re delivering on the promise of the web by delivering an inclusive design that can be easily used by people with disabilities? In this talk, Derek will tackle the tougher problems through design approaches and practical development techniques that you need to create accessible, modern web sites.
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An Event Apart: “Extreme Design”
Derek Featherstone speaking at An Event Apart Orlando 2016 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World on October 4, 2016.
An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition 2014
My notes from An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition 2014 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World.
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