GPT-4, Midjourney, & Co. are powerful generative AI models beyond anything we’ve ever seen, but how do you go from a cool demonstration to a real-world product? For questions and further discussion find the speaker in the Speaker’s Corner right after their talk.

During her eight years of working on design systems, Amy has learned a thing or two about what causes them to fail. In this talk, she shares the most common causes of a design system’s demise and provides tips on how to avoid them. For questions and further discussion find the speaker in the Speaker’s […]

For a long time, WebAssembly (WASM) was treated as a focused tool you could use to write individual, highly focused functions in hot loops by hand to squeeze some extra performance out of JS apps. With the advent of WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and a much more mature tooling environment with attributes like wasm-bindgen, WASM […]

A critical, yet wildly overlooked aspect of acquiring customers and growing a product is operationalising growth. In this talk, Claire will explore how to match your product experience with real customer needs — not only to fuel product growth and drive revenue but also to better equip your team. Get ready to discover why finding […]

Isn’t it frustrating when the song you want isn’t available at karaoke? In this talk, Ana will explore how to solve this problem. You’ll look at the current state of the Web Speech API, see what’s possible, what isn’t, and what’s coming next. For questions and further discussion find the speaker in the Speaker’s Corner […]

As we all are exploring ways to include AI in our products, too often we rely on a good old-fashioned conversational UI to bring AI to life. However, this experience is often painfully slow, the responses are generic and users have to meticulously explain to Gemini, Chat-GPT and others just what exactly they need — […]

When we think of accessibility, we often think about the usual suspects—colour contrast, legible font sizes, and mobile tap targets. However, accessible and inclusive design reaches far beyond that. In practice, it’s neither straightforward nor obvious — and it’s difficult to figure out how to make the right design choices early to prevent issues down […]

Caching is something most developers take for granted. Still, time and time again, it’s clear that most developers don’t understand how to configure their caching rules safely, correctly, or effectively. Do you know what no-cache means? Do you know what the Pragma header does? Do you know the difference between Last-Modified or ETag? Expires or […]

Building a product made from components that meet accessibility standards will result in accessible end products – right? A design system can seem like a quick fix for your organisation’s accessibility needs. But if you lack a culture that champions accessibility, you will fight a losing battle. In this talk, Geri will walk you through […]

In this talk, Nishu explores the new Core Web Vital, Interaction to Next Paint (INP), which will replace First Input Delay (FID) in 2024. She’ll diagnose it using performance profiling, JavaScript libraries, the Long Tasks API, Scheduler API, and Long Animation Frames API to understand how you could potentially solve issues with annoyingly long tasks […]