Schedule

• 8:45

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  Doors Open and Registration

  Pick up your conference pass, grab a tea or coffee and start mingling and exploring the sponsors' stands!

• 9:20

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  Welcome

  Phil Hawksworth is back to MC the conference and take you through the day!

  

• 9:30

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  Jeremy Keith

  Declarative Design

  Different browsers, different devices, different network speeds… designing for the web can feel like a never-ending battle for control. But what if the solution is to relinquish control? Instead of battling the unknowns, we can lean into them. In the world of programming, there’s the idea of declarative languages: describing what you want to achieve without specifying the exact steps to get there. In this talk, we’ll take this concept of declarative programming and apply it to designing for the web.

  Instead of focusing on controlling the outputs of the design process, we’ll look at creating the right inputs instead. Leave the final calculations for the outputs to the browser – that’s what computers are good at. We’ll look at CSS features, design systems, design principles, and more. Then you’ll be ready to embrace the fluid, ever-changing, glorious messiness of the World Wide Web!

  Read our interview with Jeremy.

• 10:15

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  Ire Aderinokun

  CSS, JavaScript & Accessibility

  HTML is, by default, accessible. By simply using “Plain Old Semantic HTML”, we have the ability to create rich and accessible web pages that can meaningfully stand on their own. More often than not, what makes a web page less accessible is the CSS and JavaScript we add to that HTML. With these additions, we can alter the meaning of elements, change their behaviour, or even block access to content entirely.

  In this talk, we’ll explore how CSS and JavaScript can contribute, negatively or positively, to accessibility. We’ll learn when it’s appropriate to use these technologies and how they can be used to make even more accessible websites - from leveraging CSS to adapt experiences to different types of users, to using JavaScript to ensure our dynamic web applications work across all devices.

  Read our interview with Ire.
  

• 10:55

  Morning Break

• 11:20

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  Chui Chui Tan

  Designing for Your International Audiences

  Designing an experience that matches what your global customers want, expect and need does not refer just to the visual elements. It also means designing your product propositions, marketing or other business strategies that would ‘work’ best in a specific market.

  Many businesses are convinced that designing for other markets means copying their successful business model in the home country. They believe that localisation is about translation. They design their products without properly understanding what changes are needed and why they are needed. Even big companies do not always get it right.

  In this talk, Chui Chui will discuss how these inaccurate perceptions can lead to flawed business and design decisions. She will also cover how having a clear holistic understanding of your global audiences and their context could lead to a better global market launch and growth. Practical tips will be provided to guide you through the process.

• 12:05

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  Cassie Evans

  Animating the Impossible

  How best do we achieve smooth UI animations when dealing with DOM changes, responsive layouts, dynamic content and user interaction? Well... we start off by flipping our whole approach upside down. In this session we’ll lift the magicians curtain, take a look at some ‘impossible’ animation challenges, and learn how to approach them using a rather exciting animation technique.

• 12:45

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  Lunch

  See our location guide for recommendations on where to grab a bite to eat.

• 14:00

  Talk TBC

• 14:45

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  Morgane Peng

  We’re Not Doing Design Systems Properly and That’s Okay

  How do you ‘do’ design systems? Expectations are so high nowadays. Implement design tokens. Have a dedicated design system team. Get a design system manager. Wait, does your design system even have a name?

  There isn’t one way to do design systems. Ours ticks none of these boxes, yet today, it allows us to build from the simplest to the most complex financial tools, and design systematically across our services. In this session, I’ll share the lessons we learned on prioritising impacts over grip.

  Takeaways

  • Understand that there’s no one way to do design systems
  • How to adapt for adoption
  • How to use the design system mindset for large scale pattern-based thinking

• 15:25

  Afternoon Break

• 15:50

  Talk TBC

• 16:35

  Talk TBC

• 17:15

  End and Social!