It seems that almost weekly concerns about the complexity of the ecosystem around JavaScript, build tools and frameworks bubble over. Certainly, the JavaScript and Front End development world is a lot more complex than even a few years ago. The latest round kicked off with Jose Aguinaga musing on “How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016“. Depending […]
When you’re thinking about the future of the Web, an obvious focus is young people. There’s a generation growing up now that takes the Web for granted as far as being a provider of information, games, education and social interaction. But are we doing enough to teach kids how to code? Should coding be embedded […]
Our 20 minute Video Ristretto this week again comes from WD15 and features Alastair Simpson and Nat Jones from Atlassian talking about the creative spaces they’ve designed that have scaled with the changing needs of their teams and what they’ve learned about the benefits of creating better environments through thoughtful design. It’s about a lot […]
Right from the start, one of the things we wanted to do with our Scroll Magazine was bring some attention to the great work being done by Australia’s web design and development agencies. Often, these small companies bring together dynamic teams that create great results for their clients and bring the best out of their […]
Hannah Donovan’s keynote from Web Directions 2015 focused on a yet another topic that is only getting increasing attention – how humans will balance their roles with machines when it comes to generating, managing and publishing web content. Hannah crash tackles this topic with her typically colourful, brash and uncompromising approach but also brings some […]
Our short video this week comes from WD15 and features Robert Tilt, Interactive Lead at Isobar Australia, on the evolution of Virtual Reality. That evolution is picking up pace lately, and it’s already clear VR will be big, a game-changer. But what about the content? In this talk, Rob shares the unique challenges and experiences […]
As we head toward Direction, we’ll be focusing on some of the sessions we’re looking forward to and providing some context for why we chose these particular sessions. First up, one of our core points of focus since the very beginning – where is the design of the Web headed? At various times in the […]
At our Code 2016 conference a couple of months ago, Progressive Web Apps received quite a bit of attention. Marcos Caceres talked about how they are enabled by Service Workers, Elise Chant showed us how to use Manifests to install them, and several presenters referred to PWA in their presentations. You might remember that PWAs […]
Last week’s Video of the Week of Maciej Cegłowski at Web Directions 2015 proved so popular, and we’re so excited that this bloke will be presenting again at Direction this year, we dug back into the archives to turn up another of his landmark talks, this time at Web Directions 2013. Yeah, that title gets […]
The Pacific region has long been considered in need of development. Countless projects from around the world have intervened over the decades and yet there’s been very little real change for the people. Could a human-centred design approach finally create the opportunities remote community dwellers desire? In 2015 Fjord and Good Return partnered up to […]
Most of you will know by now that we have been producing Scroll magazine to accompany our conferences, but not everyone might know we also produce a post-conference magazine called Wrap. The idea of Wrap is to summarise all the speaker presentations at a conference, complete with links to slides, websites, further reading and extra […]
At our Code 16 conference, Alicia Sedlock gave a very popular presentation on testing – not, you might think, the most rivetting subject but one made practical and accessible by Alicia. It probably didn’t hurt that Alicia featured a few snaps of her favourite companion, Mabel the hedgehog. Here’s the interview we conducted with Alicia […]
Performance was a big theme for our Web Directions conference in 2015, so it was appropriate that the closing keynote to our last conference in that format was delivered by Maciej Cegłowski, addressing the way our websites have grown in size to the point where performance and the user experience are seen to deteriorate. Performance […]
Communication is difficult. Whether it’s between humans or machines or a combination of the two, trying to translate meaningful information is a lossy process. Converting programming languages to use the new Unicode standard is hard, but once it’s in place, you get this marvellous feature-add: Emoji compatibility. No longer do we have to make faces […]
We’re counting down to Direction, our big end of year conference, the 10th anniversary of our very first event. For this year we’ve made some changes (while keeping to the essence of the event thousands of attendees over the last decade have found so engaging and valuable). We’d love you to join us, as we set […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
