Our Idea of the Week this week is another excerpt from Scroll: Code. Ben Buchanan, Interface Architect at ansarada, has been as ardent a supporter of Web Directions as they come, for as long as we’ve been around. He wrote this article for us, describing how his Code presentation came about, partly to encourage people […]
It’s only a few weeks until this year’s Code conference, so Monday Profile is going to start sharing some of the interviews with our presenters you’ll see in our Scroll: Code magazine. We’re going to start with Tim Kadlec, web technology advocate at Akamai, and someone who knows more about the intersection of performance & […]
As we get closer to Code, our Front End and JavaScript focussed conference, we’re digging up some of the best presentations from past conferences focussing on these topics. At Web Directions 2015, Eric Elliott talked about what he calls “the two pillars of JavaScript”: Prototypal Object Orientation and Functional programming. A fantastic overview of these […]
Jen Simmons hosts the very popular The Web Ahead podcast, is on the W3C CSS Working Group, works as a design advocate at Mozilla, and has 20 years working on sites for the likes of CERN, the W3C and Google. Her current focus is layout for the Web, in particular new layout capabilities in CSS, […]
tl;dr; today we launched “The Wrap”, an in-depth, session by session wrap-up of our Respond conference, the next best thing to being there. Get your (free) copy now. The details I hope that long time attendees and others following along here at Web Directions have noticed quite a few changes here lately (don’t worry, a […]
Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, a writer for the esteemed New Yorker magazine, and author of “The Checklist Manifesto“. The book has started something of a revolution in medicine, by introducing an idea pioneered by pilots, the use of checklists to prepare for operations and other medical procedures. It’s an idea that has broad […]
For Scroll: Respond, we asked several presenters if they’d like to write an article based on or somehow related to their conference presentation. We’re going to do the same with Scroll: Code, to be distributed at our Code conference (you’re going, right?), and for the next few weeks, we’re going to post a few of […]
This week’s Monday profile is Rachel Ilan Simpson: UX Designer on the Chrome team. If you’ve seen our Scroll magazine, you’ll have noticed we included interviews with all of our Respond keynote speakers – except Rachel. We did do an interview with Rachel, but for logistical reasons we weren’t able to include it in Scroll. […]
To close our Code conference in 2015, Cassandra Perch challenged our audience with something very different. To stop the sometimes fanatical adherence we have to specific tools, languages, and approaches, and open our minds. To work harder to address the lack of diversity and inclusiveness that can affect our industry, and overall, make the world […]
I really enjoyed these conversations we did with speakers at Respond a few weeks back, and I’m equally enjoying returning to them, editing them a little, and listening to what these wise, intelligent and generous contributors to our field have to say. If you’ve missed them to date, take a bit of time to listen […]
Asynchronous programming in JavaScript has until relatively recently been a simple matter, using callback functions that get triggered once a process is completed. But as the things we build with Web technologies have become more and more sophisticated, it’s been obvious for some time this isn’t good enough anymore. A couple of weeks back we […]
Jessica delivered a very well-received presentation at Respond 16 on advanced CSS image techniques, rather precociously titled “Farewell, Photoshop”. A section of this talk focused on using Blend Modes in CSS, and Jess wrote us an article on that for Scroll Magazine. Since CSS blend modes were also mentioned in a couple of other presenters’ […]
This week’s Monday profile is Russ Weakley: front end developer, web designer and trainer, with particular expertise in CSS, UX and accessibility. Russ spoke at our Respond Front End Design conference, and this profile first appeared in Scroll magazine. You can follow Russ on Twitter, and find him at http://maxdesign.com.au/. Q Describe your family. A […]
Last week’s video of the week looked at the implications of HTTP2 for what we might loosely call “Web designers”. This week, we dive even deeper, with a more technical look at the implications for Front End engineers of HTTP2. And there’s literally no more knowledgeable person to speak on this than Mark Nottingham, the […]
As with Karen McGrane, Ethan Marcotte, and a number of other speakers at our recent Respond Conference whom we’ll feature in coming weeks, I had the privilege of sitting down and chatting with Sara Soueidan while she was here. We talked about how she became a speaker (great advice for anyone looking to start sharing […]
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Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
