Don't Use My Grid System (or any others)

Web layout has always been a hack — compounded by responsive design, web application needs, and the desire for consistency. Join the creator of Susy (a meta grid-system) for a review of layout and grid techniques — when to use them, what to consider, and how to roll your own layouts with minimum code. We'll look at everything from floats to CSS Grid, flexbox, and even custom properties — and how to start using the new toys right away, with only a few lines of code.

• When to use floats, CSS Grid, flexbox, custom properties, and other techniques
• How to make grid-math simple, and lose the grid-system
• How to make grid-systems work for you when you need them

Hidden in plain view: Bleeding edge accessibility so good you never noticed

Accessibility stifles design and harms creativity. That's what uncreative people say. During this presentation we'll look at the convergence of creativity and capability. Bleeding edge technology and design that is accessible.

From World War 1 to Fast & Furious Live

Kate has designed and directed content projected onto a floor of ice, the ceiling of the London Design Museum, the bridge of the USS intrepid in NY and put content onto the smallest LEDs to create one of the largest screens for the London 2012 Olympics ceremonies. 2017 in particular saw two diverse, exciting and extremely complex projects!

It goes without saying that each project requires a unique approach. But that approach encompasses so many variants. These large-scale projects are inevitably a roller-coaster ride of design, decision making, blood, sweat and sometimes, just sometimes tears!

Kate will be going behind the scenes, To give an insight into the influences, processes and the challenges behind these kind of projects.

Broad Band – What History’s Female Internet Pioneers can Teach us about Tomorrow

Claire Evans, author of Broad Band: The Untold History of the Women who Made the Internet, will share stories about the hardworking women who challenged convention to make key contributions to the history of our century’s most transformative cultural technology—the Internet. As we face issues of privacy, identity, and society in a networked world, we have much to learn from these women, who anticipated the Internet’s greatest problems, faced them, and discovered solutions we can still use today.

How to Build an Atomic Bomb

We were supposed to build a better world. Design and technology was supposed to point the way towards utopia. Instead, we designed a nightmare. Find out why this was our fault and what you can do to help fix it.