Conferences for web and digital professionals
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In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. The triangle love: Product, Data and Growth By Albert Mai Everyone is often skeptical about the word “growth hacking”. However, when done right, the marriage of growth with product and data brings sustainable growth […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Fair game: the ethics of telco fraud By Laura Summers How do we connect high-level principles with day-to-day product decision making? How do we move past the AI Ethics hype and start trying, testing […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Design Fiction and Space to Speculate By Jack O’Donoghue When we work in the same way as our competitors, we sign up for the same set of constraints. On the same path to the […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Make me pretty By Emma Carter According to research you’re going to spend 10% more time looking at my speaker profile than reading my Bio, which is a little bit creepy. 65% of the […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Moving fast and NOT break things: Experimenting in zero failure environments By Tom Alterman Building new products is incredibly hard, especially if you want to do so quickly with few resources. All the great […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Guardrails or handcuffs? Building creative and sustainable design systems By Mark Boulton The holy grail for design systems is akin to designing a game like chess or football: Create a system with simple, understandable […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Breathing room for Design By Sharbani Dhar Over the past few years, the digital team at AusPost has matured into one of the most well-functioning agile trains in Australia. The challenge in this journey […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Effective product management from crisis to the new normal By Cheryl Gledhill Product managers are nothing if not adaptable. How do we remain effective product managers and thrive in our roles if remote Zoom […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil By David Dylan Thomas Users’ minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they’re harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. The Art of the Prototype By Jessica Edwards Building a prototype is a great way to get feedback on a feature without dealing with the red tape that comes with engineering. As an engineer, […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. How entrepreneurial is your product team? By Ben Wirtz 6 years ago, Benjamin F. Wirtz shut down his startup and became a Senior Product Manager at Atlassian. 4 years ago he wrote a blog […]
For 15 years Web Directions has held in-person events. Beginning with one a year as a side project, it became over time, several a year, across a range of areas of practice around designing, developing and delivering digital products and experiences (with an emphasis but not exclusively so) on the Web. And we’d like to […]
In the leadup to Product://remote we’re putting the spotlight on the 2 dozen fantastic sessions we have lined up for attendees. What Do We Do Now? By Randy Silver The philosopher Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” This year has punched all of our roadmaps in […]
For years we’ve offered diversity scholarships for our conferences, in an effort to do our own small part to address the lack of diversity of folks in our industry. One advantage of hosting online conferences is there’s no travel and accomodation to limit attendance (we’ve included support for these as part of our scholarships) and […]
Thoroughly enjoyed Web Directions — met some great people, heard some inspiring presenters and added a whole bunch of things to my to-do list.
Joel Roberts Web Developer
A global remote-only conference for JavaScript Developers and Front End Engineers.
Exclusively Online September 2020
DetailsA global remote-only conference–product design and product management.
Exclusively Online November 2020
DetailsA conference for the whole digital team–featuring product, design, front-end dev, and new people/talent/culture tracks.
Sydney See you in 2021
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