dConstruct: The final chapter! | Sally Lait
I love the thoughtfulness that Sally put into her personal write-up of dConstruct.
Anchoring insights: Key learnings from Research by the Sea | Clearleft
This was a day of big conversations, but also one of connection, curiosity, and optimism.
Seeing it all laid out like this really drives home just how much was packed into Research By The Sea.
Throughout the day, speakers shared personal reflections, bold ideas, and practical insights, touching on themes of community, resilience, ethics, and the evolving role of technology.
Some talks brought hard truths about the impact of AI, the complexity of organisational change, and the ethical dilemmas researchers face. Others offered hope and direction, reminding us of the power of community, the importance of accessibility, and the need to listen to nature, to each other, and to the wider world.
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Spotify – dConstruct 2022
If you were at dConstruct on Friday and you enjoyed the mood music during the breaks, this is what you were listening to.
The Patterns Day Edition | Amy Hupe, content designer.
Amy’s talk at Patterns Day was absolutely brilliant! Here’s an account of the day from her perspective.
The evident care Jeremy put into assembling the lineup meant an incredible mix of talks, covering the big picture stuff right down to the nitty gritty, and plenty in between.
Her observation about pre-talk nerves is spot-on:
I say all of this because it’s important for me and I think anyone who suffers with anxiety about public speaking, or in general, to recognise that having a sense of impending doom doesn’t mean that doom is actually impending.
There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog
I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.
With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd
Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.
As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).
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Making the website for Research By The Sea
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
Sponsor Web Day Out
Your company should partner up with this event.
A long-awaited talk
Remy and I gave a talk at Brighton’s Async meetup …five years after we were originally booked in.
Unsaid
I listened to a day of talks on AI at UX Brighton, and I came away disappointed by what wasn’t mentioned.
That was dConstruct 2022
The last ever dConstruct.