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Machine learning is suddenly everywhere, and designers have an urgent role to play in crafting this emerging generation of AI interfaces. Learn to use machine learning as design material in your everyday work, and unearth the design principles for doing it responsibly. - What this talk is about - Designers have an urgent role to play in crafting the emerging…

The beast is alive! How do you feel about ASCII-alike CSS Grid layout with polyfluid sizing and ch unit? Do you feel itchy when it comes to building responsive HTML email layouts? What about the brave new world of dynamic static site generators and JAM stack? Have you ever tried to work around nested CSS Custom Properties, untamed 3rd-party scripts, shady se…

The VoiceFirst revolution is taking hold, but voice experiences are still very limited and one dimensional. In the next 2-5 years, voice technology will becomes more robust to really support context and personalization, and be able to create empowering and frictionless multidimensional experiences like never before. In this talk, Karen will build on her 20+ …

I'd love tell other front-end developers about the topic that blew my mind last year. First of all, current state of design tooling is fascinating (how and why Photoshop was replaced by Sketch, UXPin, Framer etc.). Secondly, I'd like to show how perfectly these tools fit into the current front-end trend of building everything using components (react/vuejs/we…

Once you have grasped the basics of CSS Grid, you quickly discover how it enables many existing design patterns in a streamlined, elegant way. However, we shouldn’t see Grid in isolation. Understanding how other parts of CSS work together with Grid is key, in order to get the most out of our new abilities. In this talk Rachel will be concentrating on a coupl…

You probably heard about serverless, and many things about its autoscaling and price. But no one told you one of the most important things, serverless is backend thing, but it gives superpowers to the frontend developers. Why? Because it put the deployment in hands of frontend developers, without all the complexity of backend systems. You can deploy simple A…

Voice is the world's most intuitive interface. Raffaela will share how to apply UX principles to the platform without interface to build delightful voice experiences. She will share 5 actionable tips for your first voice design project and provide a humorous take on ethical concerns in voice experience design.

In big companies, everybody - including the management board - claims that they work for the good of the customer. And nobody knows what it actually means. As a designer with several years of experience in a big tech enterprise, I want to share with you my thoughts on UX professionals’ role in shaping the awareness of the customer point of view.

Build reactive applications - Think in streams (Observables) - Use RxJS for streaming props - Components (in both React and Vue) become only stateless components - Better composition with stateless components - Easier to test and maintain

For most of the web, poor network connectivity destroys the user experience. We can do better. In this session we'll take an online-only site and turn it into a fully network-resilient, offline-first installable progressive web app, and this won't involve rebuilding from scratch; it'll be done in small iterations, with each step improving the user experience…

Variable fonts will shape the future of web typography as they can bring great variety and new opportunities at a low file size to our browsers. This practical talk guides you through the first steps with variable web typography, illustrated by several use cases and examples. What are variable fonts, what can you do with them, when do they make sense, and wh…

Zero-bug launch & 100% user acceptance - Lukas Müller; Beyond Pokémon GO, Tangible benefits using AR for real service business - Lukas Ehrensperger; Progressive Web Apps for the 99% - Nico Martin; Coding Academy for Refugees - Christian Hirsig

Frontend First Development - Fredi Bach; Reusable frontend components using yarn workspaces, data- attrs and twig - Anton Staroverov; Ooth - a User Accounts System for Node - Nicola Marcacci Rossi; Blockchain meets Frontend Technology - Waleed El Sayed

As you grow into a leader there are three distinct stages - leading individuals, leading teams, and leading the organisation. Drawing on her 20 years of experience Jane will guide you through each of these stage so that you can make the transition smoothly.

The most challenging aspects to software development are always the people issues. Picking the right data structures, finding the right testing approaches are simple compared to building an effective software team. Most organisations fail to support developers promoted into technical leadership roles so where do you go to uncover the secret skills behind thi…

There’s a ton of advice out there for junior developers, how to grow your skills, how to contribute effectively without a lot of experience, how to ask good questions. Likewise, there’s a lot of good advice for senior developers on how lead and mentor effectively and how to leverage their knowledge and experience. Left out are the people in between those two…

This talk focuses on how Impostor Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect work to undermine our estimation of our individual skills. Who do these cognitive biases affect? And how do they collectively shape the face of the software development industry? The impact of these biases on personal and professional relationships among individuals and groups will be e…

Your job isn't going anywhere. You do not need to be a machine learning engineer to work with AI. Former IBM Watson designer Dezzie Garcia takes you through the journey of designing effective ways for people to be able to build their chatbots, from the assumption that engineering is at the center of the work. Maybe you'll be surprised, or maybe you won't–tha…

The current state of mobile networks and handsets isn't easy to understand. Things are changing rapidly -- and progress is uneven. Building for this environment requires understanding the current ground-truth and the likely trends in order to make appropriate technology and business choices.

“Creativity” is a word that covers all manners of sins. It might be art, or movies, or weird duct-tape hacks that you do around your patio to hold bird feeders up. It might mean saying something in a way that hasn’t been said before, or fundamentally changing how you others with the world. We write code that makes art, and games, and lets humans fly and bank…

A design process can be extraordinarily structured, or entirely missing. Either way, it often requires a remarkable number of conversations with all the stakeholders involves, including people from different departments and the users. But, what does happen when we add the unpredictable power of a community? In this talk, I’ll share my thoughts, fears and vie…

More and more, we hear design and agile software development in the same sentence. Many flavors of agile have borrowed from design practices successfully and agile practices have been influencing design methods for a long time. While there are many overlapping areas, there are fundamental differences between agile software development and design practices. I…

It’s no secret that most people don’t read technical documentation for pleasure. Users often come to your docs when they are frustrated with your software, disappointed that they haven't been able to solve the problem on their own and generally feeling pretty low. This is a little sad, yeah, but being aware of these feelings is key for developers and technic…

Effective feedback is the most high-impact method of improving individual and team performance. When it is given well and received willingly, feedback can be a powerful ally in growing happy teams who work together effectively to deliver great software. Here's the challenge, giving and receiving feedback are skills, and many of us haven't had the chance to d…

Good communication and teamwork are essential to delivering great products. Effective collaboration means that you and your team can use the best of all your diverse skills to develop new ideas and make them happen. Building a great team is more than putting talented people together and hoping for the best. We can take a design approach to teamwork to encour…

No one cares how good your work is if you’re a pain to work with. SuperFriendly founder and director Dan Mall will talk about everything else around your craft, creating accountability between you and your co-workers, establishing healthy boundaries, how to lead and how to follow—the real things you need to know to be good at work.