Design isn’t magic, it’s a set of rules you can learn. In this talk, we’ll go through the core visual principles developers can use to make UIs look clean and intentional: alignment, spacing, sizing, and colour. You’ll learn to spot design issues early and make quick fixes that elevate your work, even without a designer […]
What if the usual advice on designing UX, creating products and building teams is all wrong? What if the key to success is to ignore your users? To make products intentionally harder to use? To launch prototypes before they are ready? Or to purposefully build incompatible teams? How about doing what your stakeholders explicitly don’t […]
This talk covers the web and the W3C’s role in shaping the browser landscape. We explore why certain decisions may appear to challenge developers’ expectations, often seeming restrictive rather than supportive of developers’ needs. Yet, we emphasise that the web is fundamentally user-centric, and fostering trust between users and browsers is at the core of […]
AI can now generate entire interfaces’ worth of text in seconds. But how do we know if the words are actually good? This talk is for designers, product managers, and anyone else who already uses AI to write UX content and needs a clearer way to judge what it produces. It offers a simple, practical […]
Many are afraid of spiders 🕷️ and the dark 🌑. But what is even scarier for most businesses? Raising prices. Dima will share the story of a tech company so afraid of pricing that they considered downgrading their product. Instead, they raised their price by 3X and won a huge “whale” customer. The secret? Dream […]
In this talk, Anastasiia shares how to build a theming system, so adding new themes doesn’t become a nightmare. She’ll demonstrate how to organise design tokens, layer themes, and maintain UI consistency – even as your project grows. Learn how to manage themes with different color schemes, light and dark modes, and address color contrast […]
Life isn’t all rainbows, unicorns or idealistic LinkedIn success stories. Sometimes things go south. Come to the Discomfort Zone to discuss taboo topics with Riki Fridrich.
What if your design system could grow with your needs instead of outgrowing your team? This talk explores how to build systems that start small yet scale across brands, products, and teams. Using practical examples from tools like Figma, Jira, and VS Code, we’ll look at component logic, variable inheritance, cross-repository governance, and shared ownership […]
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Accessibility is often discussed, but not always addressed effectively. This talk focuses on real-world data (from sources like WebAIM and the WebAIM Million) to identify which issues have the most impact on users. We’ll also examine critical gaps in WCAG 2 – especially the lack of prioritization based on context and function – and briefly […]
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