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Video Ristretto: CSS Variables – Michael Mifsud

Michael Mifsud is a Performance Engineer at 99designs, a core contributor to LibSass, and the Node-Sass project lead. He started the MelbCSS Meetup and is an organizer of CSSConf AU. All of which amply qualifies him to tell us how CSS Variables won’t kill off Sass, but can lighten your workload. Which is exactly what […]

Respond 17 Scroll Excerpt: Mina Markham

This week’s extract from the Scroll magazine published with our Respond 17 conference focuses on keynote speaker Mina Markham. During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Mina spent most of her time building and refining Pantsuit, the design system that powered many of the applications hosted on hillaryclinton.com. In her Respond 17 talk, Styling Hillary: A […]

Direction 16: Art Directing Web Design – Andy Clarke

Following on from our Video of the Week on Friday, a couple of people have asked whether we published a Wrap magazine summary of Andy Clarke‘s keynote presentation at Direction 16. We sure did! In fact, we plan to continue publishing summaries of all of our future conference presentations in the digital-only Wrap magazine. They […]

Video of the Week: Art directing web design – Andy Clarke

Several recent Videos of the Week focused on new capabilities in style and layout control, and how they open up opportunities for designers to extend their creative vision on the web. Examples include talks by Stephanie Rewis, Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons. Well, this week is no different. At Direction 16, Andy Clarke’s inspiring keynote […]

CSS, HTML, SVG at Respond

Respond started life as a “pop-up” single-day conference in Sydney, addressing the specific challenges associated with web design in the age of multi screens. Initially, the focus was very practical and revolved a lot around CSS – and specific responsive patterns – to do with images, navigation on small screens, accessibility on mobile devices, and so […]

Respond 17 Scroll Excerpt: Rachel Nabors

If you went to one of our conferences in 2016, you will have seen Scroll. Some might think it unusual for a web / digital conference organiser to publish a print magazine. We think it fits. The thing is, we don’t see it as a binary option, either/or. This year, we’re publishing one Scroll magazine […]

Video Ristretto: Advanced CSS Image Techniques – Jessica Claire Edwards

This week’s Video Ristretto has the full title of Farewell Photoshop: Advanced CSS Image Techniques, which sums up presenter Jessica Claire Edwards’ contention at Respond 16 that it’s possible to do with CSS what could previously be achieved only with a sophisticated image editing program. Whether that means you can get rid of Photoshop altogether […]

A Word About Workshops

You might have noticed a (significant) uptick in content from us in recent months – video, interviews, profiles, articles. Hopefully you’ve noticed Scroll and Wrap, our pre and post event publications. All of which are essentially due to Ricky Onsman. Ricky has been coming to our events, pretty much every one, since we started. Last […]

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