Designer vs. Developer!

Designers and developers often have poor relationships, due to bad process. Their interactions are apathetic at best and antagonistic at worst. Designers iterate over rounds of unrealistic comps, leaving a stupidly short runway for developers to actually build the product. Developers recoil from the design process and expect designers to figure everything out so they only have to build things once.

In this session, designer Dan Mall and developer Brad frost will duke it out on stage once and for all. Can they identify a better process that prioritizes collaboration and conversation? Is designing in the browser really possible? Is higher quality products in a faster pace the holy grail? Can they finally say goodbye to a traditional, waterfall, handoff process? You’ve gotta attend to find out!

Building Accessible Websites

Designing For Kids Is Not A Game

The children of today are growing up in a different paradigm than their parents, who might even remember what the world was like before the Internet!

This impacts the way they perceive and interact with the world around them, especially with digital products.

In this talk, Trine will explain how kids develop and learn, and how to design digital products that help them grow rather than dumb them down.

I Built <frankenstein-monster>:
3 Stories Of Migration

A lot of people consider complete re-write to be the best solution for project migration. Even though this may give better results int the end when compared to gradual migration, most projects cannot afford this move due to limited work-force, budget or other reasons.

But what if we could migrate our applications bit by bit without polluting global scope by messing up with CSS leaking and different JS bits yelling at each other? What if we could do this in an isolated manner as if we would have several sandboxes in our applications where we are allowed to do anything we want?

This talk will tell 3 entertaining stories (spiced with quite a few code examples) of application migrations with different approaches, different architectural decisions, and different results. Join Denys to get an idea of how to approach framework-agnostic frontend migrations using micro-services architecture, web components, and a good sense of humor.

Front-end

Front-end, React

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JavaScript

Demystifying Vim, Live!

Often labelled ugly, unintuitive, or even a bit awkward and confusing… hey, meet Harry!

Vim can feel a little intimidating at first, and it’s made all the more stressful when you probably found your way there by accident and can’t easily find your way back out. In this talk, Harry will try to shed some light on many of Vim’s quirks and nuances, introduce you to basic text navigation, manipulation, and editing, and begin to look at editing text at the speed of thought. Download the demo files and you can code along!

And even if he doesn’t manage to convert you completely, hopefully you’ll at least feel comfortable and safe should you wander into Vim by accident again.

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Move Fast & Don’t Break Things

Performance is a high priority for any site of scale today, but it can be easier to make a site fast than to keep it that way. As a site's features and design evolves, its performance is often threatened for a number of reasons, making it hard to ensure fast, resilient access to services.

In this session, Scott will draw from real-world examples where business goals and other priorities have conflicted with page performance, and share some strategies and practices that have helped major sites overcome those challenges to defend their speed without compromises.

Dynamic CSS