Yes, yes, I promised I’d focus less on AI after a flurry of posts late last year. But honestly, I can’t–I think it is that significant. As we put together the program for Code in June, and Summit later this year, submission after submission across dev, product, design, content is focussed on the impact of AI […]
The term ‘disruption‘ has become so overused as to be essentially meaningless. But it comes originally (in the sense we use it) from Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma*, who gave considerable though to the nature of technological innovation and its impact on businesses and industries. In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen describes “disruptive innovation [as creating] a […]
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Ezra Klein, the early blogger turned New York Times pundit and podcaster recently described the time we are living in now as ‘exponential time‘. He’s particularly referring to the experience in particular of the early weeks and months of Covid, […]
Today we’re also announcing the first half dozen of what will be nearly 30 speakers in total, experts who’ll help ensure you and your team are at the top of your game. Now double the content with two big tracks!The always popular front end development focussed Code returns with not one but two tracks. Front of […]
The launch of the iPhone was in some ways the high water mark of the Web. Apple’s long rumoured phone was launched as 3 devices in one “a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an Internet communications device”. There were no native apps, the way Apple expected developers to build apps for […]
Off the back of a truly fantastic return to in-person events with Web Directions Summit late last year, we’re well into planning even more for 2023! And here’s your chance to be involved as a speaker across several events and the whole front end landscape. The Return of Code On June 8th and 9th Code […]
Late last year, in the first part of this wrap up of technology in 2022, I looked at the fall of Twitter and rise of Mastodon? This week, to round out 2022 and kick off 2023, let’s focus on a second significant transformation taking place now that it feels will resonate for some time to […]
A dictum of Lenin’s we’ve all probably seen too many times the last few years “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” seems particularly apt for technology in late 2022 for two unrelated reasons, that will likely reverberate for a long time to come. To round out 2022, today […]
In my teens I read the classics of science fiction copiously–Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, Le Guin. Among the many tropes (space travel, galactic empires, to a lesser extent time travel) common to those stories was what we now term Artificial Intelligence–though while that term initially applied quite narrowly (more for less things that might pass the […]
We’ve just announced the full schedule for Code Leaders ’22, and if you’re an engineering leader or manager (experienced or aspiring) then we’d love you to consider attending
Right from the very beginning, Web Directions conferences have featured any sessions on accessibility. And we’ve even started a whole online conference, AAA, focussed on the topic. So, of course, accessibility features significantly on the Web Directions Summit program, and not just on the developer focussed tracks–after all, accessibility isn’t simply an engineering challenge to […]
The last conference we ran, in early November 2019, is now 1083 days ago. That’s a long time by any measure. When we started planning to return to in-person events, we decided that we wouldn’t do that by half measures. We wanted to make this event Thebes it could possibly be. And a big big […]
Last night we held our first in-person event in 1070 days. The elements did not conspire to make it any easier for us–absolutely torrential rain (in the city of Sydney itself nearly 10cm over a 24 hour period) with flooding stopping some trains on the rail network (stranding two of our speakers)–but nevertheless a healthy […]
🤩 It has been 3 years since the last time I spoke in front of 1000+ live audiences in person at Adobe MAX in 2019. I am excited to be back in my hometown Sydney Australia as the opening keynote speaker for Web Directions Summit, a beloved conference by the Australian Web Community. Since this was also the first […]
ID24 2022 This is my script for my recent presentation at ID24, the long running accessibility and inclusive design focussed conference. I spoke on some of the lessons we’ve learned over the last 3 years or so developing our online conferences, and how these might also help make our in-person conferences more accessible and inclusive […]
Thanks for an amazing few days Web Directions. So many great themes of empathy, inclusion, collaboration, business impact through design, and keeping our future deeply human.
Laura van Doore Head of Product Design, Fathom
