Speaker: D. Denenge Akpem What is Afro-Futurism? It’s a creative theory, rooted in history and African cosmologies. Afro-Futurism uses pieces of the past, both technological and analog, to design the future. As an engaged creative practice, it moves people to consider different possibilities for themselves, their visual design, and their communities. Afro-Futurism rethinks and remixes […]

Speaker: Ronnie Duke In the good ‘ol days, as a front end developer, we were handed a design and we would build our CSS layout and structure from scratch. Ah, how good it felt to reinvent the wheel every time! </sarcasm> Enter the age of CSS frameworks. We started with grid systems such as 960 […]

Speaker: Jason Lengstorf A challenge that faces modern front-end designers often is the balancing act between semantic code and code that does all the things we need it to do. We need separators between nav items and breadcrumbs, or icons after links; little pieces of non-semantic code that mess with accessibility and make our markup […]

Speaker: Josh Northcott We spend much needed time and effort in designing and building the optimum experience for our users and visitors. We do usability testing to make sure the user understands the navigation and interactions related to the design. But, why aren’t we asking them or testing if the content makes sense to them […]

Speaker: Brandon Schmittling Digital screens are now as thin as paper, as we often wished for and ultimately expected. These paper-thin displays are referred to as AMOLED and are currently used in some mobile devices and televisions. In my session I will examine the brief history of flexible screens, discuss their current use in the […]

Speakers: Chris Butler, Paul Backett, Christian Freissler You have probably found yourself in a bit of a fix before – you have a great idea but are faced with many questions or obstacles. It’s time to look up, take stock of the situation, start connecting the dots and bring your design to life. The team […]

Last year, I helped my friends build a bee hive for there yard. However, when spring came, they missed the window to purchase a nuc/package. Instead, we decided to build a few super-simple swarm traps. These traps are literally a paper pot screwed to a piece of old plywood. All, but one of the holes […]

Speaker: Jim Kidwell Text is the lifeblood of the web. And when you choose an inferior web font to display it, your project is going to bleed all over the cyber-verse. To keep your projects from hemorrhaging unnecessarily, ensuring that your web font, CSS and html are up to the task is critical. All fonts […]

Speaker: Senongo Akpem In a digital world, what does storytelling mean for designers? We have augmented reality, touch screens, and even geolocation technology to tell everything from mysteries to children’s stories to our audiences. The proliferation of screens also means we can spread our narratives across multiple viewports. In this workshop, Nigerian-born designer and illustrator […]

Speaker: Brad Weaver Client calls, they need a website or application, you pick a CMS, send a quote, and go. That’s how most of us have been doing it for the last several years to the point that WordPress now powers almost half of the entire web! Much like over-prescribing antibiotics, we’re creating a web […]