Conferences for web and digital professionals
Improving websites’ security and UX with biometrics scanners Vasyl Boroviak, The Developer FlashFX Developing a highly secure webapp with limited budget used to be a difficult task, but maintaining high grade User Experience of one was even harder. The modern web technologies allow you to crank up both – the security and the UX. I’m […]
Compu-mathe-sci-tics Jennifer Wong, Software Engineer Mode Analytics Math. Computer science. Computers were invented to do complicated mathematics. But JavaScript wasn’t. It was created to assemble components and be written directly in web page markup. So how does Math fit into all of this? Well, JavaScript has had a Math object since its inception in 1997. […]
Erin Zimmer, Senior developer Shine Solutions Historically, layout on the web has been quite difficult. Developers have relied on third-party tools, like Bootstrap, and media queries based on “average” device sizes. Today, however, the web is available on an increasingly large range of devices – everything from your watch to your fridge! We are reaching […]
The wait is over, and this year’s Web Directions Code program is now available. Every year we spend months curating a program we aim to be timely, challenging, and extremely professionally valuable for our audience. This year we’ve brought together a program of both well established as well as brand new speakers, across a range of technologies […]
If you’re wondering which jobs end up in this list, well, it’s jobs at organisations we likely know well (one way or another). It’s above all because of the people who work there, whom I’ve got to know perhaps as a speaker at one of our events, perhaps as an attendee. My instinct is if […]
The last week or so I’ve spent a lot of time focused on finalising the program for our Code and Code Leaders conferences. Our CFPs closed a couple of weeks back, and there were hundreds of proposals, this is both gratifying, and daunting as it also leads to the inevitable consequence, that some will miss out (many in […]
If you’re keen on speaking at Product (in either the product design or product management track), or Design Leaders, the companion event focussed on design leadership challenges, CFPs close in a couple of weeks.Most of the sessions we select from our CFP are 20 minutes long, and focus on a single topic–it’s just the right amount of time to cover one thing in some […]
A bit quieter this week, but a couple that crossed my desk where you’d be working with folks I admire on interesting projects. Lead User ResearcherDTA The Digital Transformation Agency are looking for a lead user researcher (there are a number of other roles open there as well).As a Lead User Researcher, you will take […]
wherein boomers learn about the renegade If you have younger kids, tweens or younger teenagers, perhaps more so if you have a daughter, you’ll be at least familiar (if not very very familiar) with Tik Tok, a social app which focuses on short form videos that are largely shared algorithmically, and which has predominately become […]
Jobs of the WeekProduct Manager (12 month contract)PwC, Sydney PwC are seeking an experienced Product Manager with a history of delivering digital products that customers love. This is a role for someone with a strong agile delivery background and has a proven track record managing multiple stakeholders. They will be passionate about the future of Fintech […]
Every morning in my final year at high school one person in the year read out the notes for the day. Being a religious school, this finished by asking some saint or other (I can’t remember if it was a saint whomever was reading the notes chose, or whether this came pre-chosen) to pray for […]
Hiring Juniors? First up, a reverse job ad. Two students, nearing the end of their degrees at Sydney University and who’ve got some impressive experience under their belts, one a mobile dev, one full stack, are looking for part time work as part of the requirements to complete their degrees. Contact us if you’re keen. […]
We’re a bit design heavy this week, across content, events and jobs. We begin with me. Actually an interview of sorts, more of a rambling conversation (that’s been edited thankfully) with Aaron Walter, now Vice President of Design at Invision, long time head of design at Mailchimp, and someone I’ve known and been fortunate enough consider […]
Our weekly newsletter (sign up down below) has for years featured links to articles, podcasts, videos, and more of interest to the sort of folks who come to our events, across design, product management, front end engineering, and people/talent/culture. But for some reason I’ve rarely the reposted these to our site. So for 2020 I’m […]
In what I plan to be a regular post, I’l bring together an (Australia centric) list of events, meetups and so on that I think might be worth attending. To start off, a couple of events that have crossed my desk, quite coincidentally both associated with ThoughtWorks (I plan to expand this to upcoming Meetups […]
Thanks for an amazing few days Web Directions. So many great themes of empathy, inclusion, collaboration, business impact through design, and keeping our future deeply human.
Laura van Doore Head of Product Design, Fathom
A global remote-only conference for JavaScript Developers and Front End Engineers.
Exclusively Online July 2 & 3 2020
DetailsA global remote-only conference–product design and product management.
Exclusively Online July/August 2020
DetailsA conference for the whole digital team–featuring product, design, front-end dev, and new people/talent/culture tracks.
Sydney November 5 & 6 2020
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