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Andy first came to prominence in our industry as a designer and web standards enthusiast. He was driven by a desire to improve and professionalise the industry, which is how he came to start the UKs first user experience consultancy, Clearleft. He never set out to be a design leader, but now find himself leading a team of thirty people, almost by accident. I…

The web is fundamentally boxes. Every element in the document tree is a box. A lot of frustration with CSS often arises from trying to wrangle all the content on the page into their proper locations. CSS has gradually expanded over the years, granting us an increasing degree of control over the alignment, positioning and layout of these boxes. CSS is ultimat…

Just as mobile defined the last decade of digital products, machine learning is set to define the next. Learn to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work. Refit familiar design and UX process to work with the grain of the algorithm, to help the machines solve real problems without creating new ones. Thi…

Now is the perfect time to push typography to new extremes in weight, width, and size. Growing support for variable fonts and color fonts are broadening the range of things we can do with type, while CSS grid and viewport units are giving web designers unprecedented control over how text integrates into a layout. This presentation examines what happens to ty…

Variable fonts will shape the future of web typography. They can bring great variety and new opportunities at a low file size. But with many possibilities you can also choose wrong. This practical talk guides you through the first steps with variable web typography, accompanied by several use cases and examples. What are variable fonts, what can you do with …

As Internet access expands to the far corners of the world, product makers have the chance to see their work used by millions of people worldwide. To create products for international users, we must be aware of the full range of human diversity with respect to language, culture and other forms of human difference. If the product doesn’t adapt to users’ diffe…

Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? excerpt from Lamia John Keats, 1819 Since the days of the first natural philosophers, science seems to revel in shining harsh unforgiving light on the wonders we filled our world with. No gnomes lurk in the mines, the rainbow unravelled, love and happiness a mere presence of the right chemicals... T…

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics gave us a set of principles for governing the behaviour of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Asimov also said: “The Three Laws are the only way in which rational human beings can deal with robots - or anything else. But when I say that, I always remember (sadly) that human beings are not always rational!” In “I, Human”, Léonie use…

Join Marcin on a tour of 150 years of people treating QWERTY keyboards not as data entry devices or literary partners, but as… instruments of creative expression. We’ll solve a typewriter mystery, learn basics of artyping, chat with Eliza and her (its?) friends, figure out the difference between ANSI, ASCII, and PETSCII art, meet the extended family of the E…

MPS Bifröst is the modern cloud-native way to do Enterprise SSO. Come by and let us convince you that these things can actually be fun (and also to see and laugh at some of the interface designs we created along the way :D) This was a talk from the Warm-Up Side Event a day before beyond tellerrand in Berlin.

Originating in print newspapers, infographics have become an essential part of how we share and soak up news information online. Designer Johannes Ippen shows the leap from print to screen, presents some trends and possibilities and why infographics are as important for the future of UI design as for cooking. This was a talk from the Warm-Up Side Event a day…

A brief introduction to the history of locks and lock picking. From ancient to modern, and why it’s important to remember the basics. This was a talk from the Warm-Up Side Event a day before beyond tellerrand in Berlin.