Peter Wilson’s subject at Respond 16 was performance, which sits alongside security as a major factor designers and developers have to take into account on today’s web. You may have the most beautiful and useful website in the world, but if it takes too long to load, site visitors are unlikely to stick around to […]
At Respond 16, we were fortunate to bring to Australia Rachel Simpson, UX designer on the Google Chrome team, to present on finding a real balance between usability and security. Rachel’s keynote pointed out how poor some of our online security practices have been – and are still – and offered some pragmatic options available […]
Things that have crossed our desk recently, and we think are worth crossing yours, too. The Power of Experience Mapping Jared Spool I think Netflix is one of the most extraordinary companies in the world. From business strategy to devops, UI to front end development, these folks are as good as it gets. […]
Our Scroll magazine Scroll magazine contains considerably more than just profiles of the Respond 17 speakers. We look for different ways to add perspective, context and – ultimately – value to your conference experience. Sketchnotes are a terrific way of summarising conference presentations, using evocative illustrations to emphasise key points and capture some of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent browser support for CSS Grid Layout has attracted much attention for offering new web layout options, and this has also put the spotlight on another modern and complementary way to control layout: Flexbox. As it happens, the same Code 16 conference which saw Rachel Andrew explain CSS Grid to us also featured Stephanie Rewis, […]
Our best Respond 17 Early Bird deals end this Friday. Something that often gets overlooked is how Early Bird prices can add great value to the upper end of ticket prices. For example, a Classic Pass to Respond at regular prices costs $1,199. A Gold Pass bought before 31 March (this Friday), costs $1,299. For […]
Two days of Transform 17 starts in Canberra tomorrow with a sold out day of workshops followed by a full day of talks focused on the ongoing transformation of government services. As our last warmup, we have one more presentation from Transform 16 to get you in the mood. Monica Ritz from South Australia’s Office […]
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Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
