Frontend Conference Zurich 2018
2018-08-30..2018-08-31
Zürich, Switzerland
who it's for
frontend developers, UX designers, design leads, engineering managers, product managers, technical writers
topics
CSS Grid layout; serverless for frontend developers; offline-first progressive web apps; reactive programming with RxJS; variable web typography; voice interface design; design and code collaboration; design systems for teams; community-based design; engineering team leadership; human-centered documentation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Design in the Era of the Algorithm | Josh Clark | |
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… | ||
| New Adventures In Front-End, Season 2 | Vitaly Friedman | |
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… | ||
| Designing the Future, with Voice | Karen Kaushansky | |
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… | ||
| Closing the gap between design and code | Konrad Dzwinel | |
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… | ||
| Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout | Rachel Andrew | |
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… | ||
| Serverless, backend thing that gives superpowers to frontend developers | Slobodan Stojanović | |
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… | ||
| Design without interface - the future of experience design | Raffaela Rein | |
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… | ||
| Surrounded by self-styled UX experts. The challenges of UX professionals in large enterprises | Anna Jozanis | |
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… | ||
| Embrace Reactive Programming in React and Vue with RxJS | Fahad Ibnay Heylaal | |
Build reactive applications - Think in streams (Observables) - Use RxJS for streaming props - Components (in both React and Vue) become only stateless… | ||
| Building Offline-first Progressive Web Apps | Jake Archibald | |
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… | ||
| Conquer Variable Web Typography | Oliver Schöndorfer | |
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… | ||
| Lightning talks (Folium) | Lukas Müller, Lukas Ehrensperger, Nico Martin, Christian Hirsig | |
Zero-bug launch & 100% user acceptance - Lukas Müller; Beyond Pokémon GO, Tangible benefits using AR for real service business - Lukas Ehrensperger… | ||
| Lightning talks (Papiersaal) | Fredi Bach, Anton Staroverov, Nicola Marcacci Rossi, Waleed El Sayed | |
Frontend First Development - Fredi Bach; Reusable frontend components using yarn workspaces, data- attrs and twig - Anton Staroverov; Ooth - a User Accounts… | ||
| The three stages of leadership | Jane Austin | |
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… | ||
| The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams | Patrick Kua | |
The most challenging aspects to software development are always the people issues. Picking the right data structures, finding the right testing approaches are… | ||
| Muddling Through The Middle Bits, what comes after Junior and before Senior | Anne Callahan | |
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… | ||
| Impostor Syndrome and Individual Competence | Jessica Rose | |
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… | ||
| It Takes a Village to Raise a Bot | Desiree Garcia | |
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 New Mobile Reality | Alex Russell | |
The current state of mobile networks and handsets isn't easy to understand. Things are changing rapidly -- and progress is uneven. Building for this… | ||
| Hey! You got your code in my art! | Monica Dinculescu | |
“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… | ||
| Community based design | Emanuela Damiani | |
A design process can be extraordinarily structured, or entirely missing. Either way, it often requires a remarkable number of conversations with all the… | ||
| Great Design, Despite Agile, How to Get the Best Out of Your Design Team in Agile Projects | Aras Bilgen | |
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… | ||
| Humanizing your documentation | Carolyn Stransky Vohr | |
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… | ||
| Better, Fearless Feedback for Software Teams | Erika Languirand | |
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… | ||
| Designing Teamwork | Alison Coward | |
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… | ||
| How to Be Good | Dan Mall | |
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… | ||
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