Web Directions Product Design & Management 2021 Australia's conference for Product professionals

On hiatus

a global, remote-only conference for Product professionals, covering product design and product management.

Product is on hiatus for now

Covid-19 has impacted and transformed much of our lives. In response, Web Directions has taken our events online. As part of this reassessment, we've thought deeply about what makes for great online conferences, and the focus and depth of our programs is a key part of that.

For our online conferences we're focussing on one part of our traditional audience, front end developers, and delivering 6 highly focussed in depth conferences for this audience across the year.

We hope to be able to return in-person with our annual Summit which will include product and design focussed tracks when feasible.

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Extraordinary speakers

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Our family of world leading front end developer conferences

Web Directions hover 2022

The conference CSS deserves

Online, globallyApril 2022

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Web Directions lazy load 2022

a conference on front end performance

Online, globallyMay 2022

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Web Directions global scope 2022

a conference all about JavaScript

Online, globallyJuly 2022

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Web Directions Code 2023

a conference on progressive web apps and web platform

Online, globallyearly 2023

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Web Directions aaa 2023

accessibility engineering for front end developers

Online, globallyearly 2023

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Web Directions Safe 2023

privacy, security, identity for front end developers

Online, globallyearly 2023

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Web Directions remixed 2023

The best of 2022, remixed, and free!

Online, globally 2023

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Praise for past Web Directions events

Phil Whitehouse
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.

Phil Whitehouse,
Innovation Lead DigitasLBi

Ethan Marcotte
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!

Ethan Marcotte,
inventor "responsive Web design"

Dave Greiner
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite

Dave Greiner,
founder Campaign Monitor

About Us

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 20 years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

vignettes from our events, social, speakers and more. Includes Hannah Donovan skylarking.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.

His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.

His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

Code of Conduct

For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.

As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.

If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.