Day 1
- October 31st
Registration
Grab an excellent barista coffee, while you register for two big days of amazing speakers, and more.
Welcome
Designing smart things: Balancing ethics and choice
Gretchen Anderson, Product Design Consultant
Morning Break
Fuel your morning with an excellent coffee, and morning tea we've specially chosen to pick-you-up.
Getting up to speed with Web Performance in 2019
Patrick Meenan, Software Engineer Facebook
Humans vs Design at Scale
Inayaili de León, Senior Designer Microsoft
2-speed approach for building right software products right
Andrew Gregovic, Senior Software Development Manager Paypal
HTTP2: The reckoning
Peter Wilson, Senior Engineer Nine Publishing
Maturing Design Culture in an Organisation
Aaron Tan, User Experience Design Lead
The 4 stages of outcome-driven teams
Sten Pittet, Co-founder & CEO Tability
Random
Lachlan Hunt, Senior Developer Atlassian
Operationalising Research - How Research Ops can help
Benson Low & Brigette Metzler, UX Research Manager, Senior User Researcher REA Group, Australian Government
Getting Your Team to Think like a Product Manager
Jenny Chu, Product Manager Atlassian
Lunch
We've always got something special lined up for lunch. But you'll have to come to find out.
Accessibility: Small Steps for a larger Audience
Sara Soueidan, Front End Developer
Designing for Trust
Katja Forbes, Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand Designit
Turning insights into product
Cheryl Gledhill, Head of Product BlueChilli
Adapting a component library for better adoption
Tim Holt, Front end developer ABC
Design for Security
Serena Chen, Product Designer
The Pragmatic Product Professional
Laura Van Doore, Head of Product Design Fathom
Intl we meet again
Gilmore Davidson, Senior Developer InnoWell
Rock Star Research
Kevin Wilkins, CX Practice Lead Tquila ANZ
OKRs, the good, the bad and the ugly
Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer, ANZ SEEK
Things you can do with CSS that used to need JS
Rhiana Heath, Front end Ruby on Rails Developer Blake eLearning
Story-based design
Shane Morris, User Experience Designer and Coach Automatic Studio
Minimising bias to create a well rounded product
Anna Lee Anda, UX Researcher Zendesk
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
New Money
Mark Pesce, futurist, author, entrepreneur and innovator futurist, author, entrepreneur and innovator
Happy Hour (and a half)
Share a drink, a bite, and a chat with your peers, close by the venue at the Shelbourne Hotel, Sussex St.
Speaker Dinner
Gold ticket holders join our speakers for fine food and conversation five minutes walk away.
Day 2
- November 1st
Reboot
Get your heart started for another day of amazingness, with coffee of course
Welcome back
Responsive (Clothing) Design
Nina Walia, Experience Design Lead Google Hardware
Morning Break
Grab a coffee (or tea, or juice…) speak to a speaker in the speaker lounge, see what's on the demo stage, join a meetup, there's lots to do!
Intuitive APIs and Developer Education
Bear Douglas, Director, Developer Relations Slack
Customizability in Design Systems
Sarah Federman, Sr Frontend Developer Atlassian
A content-first approach to product onboarding
Jonathon Colman, UX content design lead Intercom
GraphQL and The Web: Thinking beyond the technology
Ben Teese, Software Developer Shine Solutions
Design systems are a service: how to keep your customers happy
Alexandra Skougarevskaya, Design Manager Atlassian
Don't go changin': The importance of onboarding your users through change
Alison Cooke & Lauren Max, Senior Experience Designer, Experience Design Lead NAB, SportsBet
SOLID JavaScript
Steve Morris, Senior Consultant, Developer ThoughtWorks
Design Systems QA
Various
Storytelling for influence. A how-to guide to influential storytelling
Omar Andrade, Agile coach Boral
Lunch
Like everything else we do, expect the best conference food you'll have anywhere, and plenty of it.
Fun with Sensors and Browser APIs for the web!
Mandy Kerr, Front End Developer & Development Manager Seven West Media (WA)
Bringing Design, Product and Data Scientist together to design intelligent product
Larissa Azevedo, Vice President of Product & Design Hipages
Igniting growth in product teams
Peter Ikladious, Director, Growth IBM
Machine learning in the browser
Ryan Seddon, Front-end Architect Zendesk
Principles of Conversation-led UI
Amy Cleary, Senior Practitioner Symplicit
Growth through long term relationships
Nick Gower Co-founder Mentally Friendly
My voice is my passport. Verify me?
Ben Dechrai, Technical Evangelist Auth0
Creativity and user needs: pushing beyond the obvious solution
Sheree Hannah, Freelance Product Design Lead
The Tree of Up
Anson Parker, Head of Product Up Banking
Strike a pose - Gesture recognition in JavaScript with Machine Learning & Arduino.
Charlie Gerard, Front-end developer Atlassian
Designing the modern call center
Oliver Maruda, Innovation Lead Arq Group
Done is just the beginning
Christian Baker, VP Design & User Experience Local Measure
Afternoon Break
Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
Metaphors we believe by: the pantheon of 2019
Aaron Z Lewis, Cyber Designer
Farewell
Masterclass: How to be Clear: The Elements of Content Design with Jonathon Colman
On October 30, the day before Summit, spend a day with Jonathon Colman, content strategist extraordinaire.
Designing content is hard because writing for people is hard. And writing for mobile apps and experiences is even harder still. How do you find the right voice, develop effective principles and standards, and agree with people on what you mean when you say what you say?
This workshop gives you the tools and experiences you need to make content design easier, faster, better, and more manageable in your organization. You’ll leave with the knowledge and frameworks you need to scale your content design across all of your interactive products, websites, and other experiences as your organization grows.
What you’ll learn
Content doesn’t mean “write the words” any more than design means “make it pretty.” When you design content, you‘re creating an experience with words. That’s why this workshop covers:
- A complete, end-to-end process for approaching content design for websites and apps
- A process for discovering your organization’s core values—and use them to guide all of your content
- A model for designing content from high-level principles to standards all the way down to individual terms
- A way to conduct—and get the most out of—the design critique process so that you can iterate on your work and build strong teams
Who it’s for
This workshop is best for the people who make content happen in your organization: writers, designers, product managers, information architects, and marketers.
When and Where?
The workshop will take place from 9am to 5pm (registration from 8:30am)
The workshop will be held at the Adina Town Hall, 511 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Register now
Register for the workshop for just $695, or register for the workshop plus our Summit the following days and save $100s.
Register NowOur venue
Web Directions Summit 2019 returns to our longtime home, the International Convention Centre in Darling Harbour.
Getting there:
There are numerous public transport options, and parking available on site.
Accommodation:
If you're coming from out of town, there are many hotel and serviced apartment style accomodation options in Darling Harbour, and otherwise close by.
Praise for past Web Directions events
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.
Phil Whitehouse,
Innovation Lead DigitasLBi
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte,
inventor "responsive Web design"
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite
Dave Greiner,
founder Campaign Monitor
About Us
Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 20 years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.
We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.
We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.
John Allsopp
John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.
His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.
His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".
Code of Conduct
For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.
As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.
If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.