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An Event Apart Seattle was most excellent. This year, the AEA team are trying something different and making each event three days long. That’s a lot of mindblowing content! What always fascinates me at events like these is the way that some themes seem to emerge, without any prior collusion…

I recently had the opportunity to attend An Event Apart, a conference geared toward UX and graphic designers and front-end developers. The agenda is broad in scope, covering industry trends, content, accessibility, empathy, and even the social ramifications of the products we all create. I’ve been lucky enough to attend…

I gave a new talk at An Event Apart in Seattle yesterday morning. The talk was called Going Offline, which the eagle-eyed amongst you will recognise as the title of my most recent book, all about service workers. I was quite nervous about this talk. It’s very different from my…

It’s the afternoon of day two of An Event Apart in Seattle. The mighty green one, Luke Wroblewski, is here to deliver a talk called Mobile Planet: With 3.5 billion active smartphones on Earth, we’re now faced with the challenges and opportunities of designing planet-scale software. Through a data-informed, big-picture…

Scott Jehl is speaking at An Event Apart in Seattle — yay! His talk is called Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Performance is a high priority for any site of scale today, but it can be easier to make a site fast than to keep it that way. As…

Alright! It’s day two of An Event Apart in Seattle. The first speaker of the day is Chris Coyier. His talk is called How to Think Like a Front-End Developer. From the website: The job title “front-end developer” is very real: job boards around the world confirm that. But what…

The unstoppable engine of An Event Apart in Seattle rolls onward. The second talk of the second day is from the indominatable Una Kravets. Her talk is called From Ideation to Iteration: Design Thinking for Work and for Life. Here’s the description: Have you ever had a looming deadline and…

Alright, it’s time for the final talk of day one of An Event Apart in Seattle. The trifecta of CSS talks is going to finish with Jen Simmons talking about Designing Intrinsic Layouts. Here’s the description: Twenty-five years after the web began, we finally have a real toolkit for creating…

I’m at An Event Apart in Seattle, ready for three days of excellence. Setting the scene with the first talk of the event is the one and only Jeffrey Zeldman. His talk is called Slow Design for an Anxious World: Most web pages are too fast or too slow. Last…