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We talk a lot about how to animate on the web, and what's possible in browsers today, but where is animation heading? In this talk, we'll start with some bleeing edge techniques such as native-like page transitions with client side rendering, but then we'll push it further. The intersection of health and animation with biofeedback sensors, the future of 3d i…

Michael Flarup - on designing for Augmented Reality We thought we could port our existing game to an AR experience. We couldn't. Here's what happened and everything we learned.In this talk I'll take the audience through the journey we went on creating our first AR-only experience. Our game Conduct AR! I'll talk about how many of the assumptions we had going …

Brent Vatne - on future of Expo and React Native Fabric is a re-implementation of much of the internals of React Native that draws inspiration from the experiences of over three years of production use and turns initial design decisions upside down. In particular, it moves away from a mainly asynchronous bridge between the JavaScript and native runtimes by l…

Michael Thomsen - on future of cross-platform native apps Flutter is a Google-sponsored open-source SDK for creating multi-platform user interfaces. We will talk about how Flutter is very different from similar frameworks, any why we have made the technical choices we have.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning: three buzzwords that made headlines in the tech press all year long. What does it mean for the future of front-end development and UI/UX design?In this session, we will share our vision of the future and why we believe that AI has the potential to turn all of us into super-developers. We will also do …

Our interactive session host Hans will host a debate the role of ML and AI for software engineering as a field.

Lars Cimber + Mina Ashena - on working with VR With AR capabilities on millions of phones, the users can experience a whole new level of interaction with physical objects. During this presentation we will delve into the key cases Jayway believes will propel AR, i.e. where we see most interest from our customers. We will announce a new AR application, and sho…

It was not until recently that the term AR has been reserved for a small group of developers, researchers and tech enthusiasts. All that changed with a game catching the interest of the general public and the subsequent introduction of Apple's own technology that promises to deliver augmented reality experiences to the masses - ARKit.In this interactive sess…

Like it or not, a huge part of modern web development involves the use of third-party providers: fonts, analytics, ads, tracking, and more all have an impact of performance, and can leave us (or, more worryingly, our visitors) susceptible to performance degradation.In this talk, we’ll take a look at unruly or uninvited (third-)party guests: how to detect the…

Data visualizations are becoming more common on the web, from visual essays to internal business analytics to features within products. But visualizations and D3.js - the library most commonly used for developing these visualizations - are still considered niche in the front-end ecosystem. The lack of adoption may come from the initial friction developers fa…

Vitaly Friedman - on future adventures in front-end You’re a smart cookie. If someone asks you to build a responsive accordion, you’ll figure it out. The same goes for a table. Or a calendar. Or, God forbid, a multi-level-mega-drop-down. But how would you go around slightly more complicated components?What if you had to build a sophisticated car configurator…

Sara Soueidan - on future of real-world CSS CSS has advanced so much in the last few years and new features were added to it that make our lives as developers easier. But on the other hand some features have been added that are there to provide a better experience for our users as well, as long as we utilize them to do so.In this talk, Sara is going to cover…

Designers and developers can often butt heads. We hail from different backgrounds; we bring different perspectives; we speak different lingo. The level of trust and understanding between designers and developers can make or break a frontend team. And the tools we use can have a remarkable impact on the strength of this relationship.This talk will explore how…

It goes without saying that one of the largest challenges in JavaScipt is handling asynchronicity. Along come Async / Await, a language feature made popular by C#. Developers can now use the keyword await to write code in a synchronous fashion without blocking the main thread. The only catch is that the await keyword needs to be used in an asyncfunction.What…

A typical interaction with a device or interface involves touching it. Either you're pressing buttons on a controller, swiping on a touchscreen or clicking on your laptop's trackpad. But what if you could control things without the use of your hands? What if you could use... your thoughts?For the past couple of years, I have been tinkering with a brain senso…

WebRTC has been around for several years allowing native audio and video streaming from a browser without using external plugins. P2P streaming has natural limits on the number of participants and broadcasting to large audiences presents an architectural challenge.In this session we will give a brief introduction to how WebRTC works and what it takes to scal…

Inspired by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden's book `Sense and Respond`, our interactive session host Hans will host a debate on collaboration between Design and Engineering

In a industry where the only constant is change and speed to delivery is essential, we can't just stop the process and rebuild everything. But we still need to stay current with technology and changing product demands. To deal with this problem Zendesk Copenhagen have introduced a micro-frontend architecture shared by multiple teams spanning many different a…

Showcase of what's possible with Web Assembly and Service Workers today.

Ethics need to be at the core of everything we build. We have to consider our impact and rethink how to build digital products. This way we will not only create more responsible products, but gain additional benefits in the areas of performance, security, privacy and user happiness. This talk will show how to truly care about our users and improve the user e…

Today’s VR headsets are powerful, untethered, lighter, and more immersive, and yet it’s still early days for the technology. Choosing to target VR users can be a big bet, but what if the same immersive content could run on your phone that does in VR? In this talk, Jacob will explore what we’re learning about the web in VR, how to reach more users by uniting …

Technology can be a huge driving force for good, but unfortunately, sometimes it misses the mark. What do we do when our work causes harm? And what do can we do when technology is not the solution? In this talk, Mina shares reflections from her work in social good space, and explores strategies to take your activism from behind the keyboard and echo chambers…