Web Directions Culture 2018

Session Details

Michael Honey

Working Less, Living More

Michael Honey Founder Icelab

Work-life balance an empty promise if you're working too much. There's nothing magical about five days a week, and it's time to take the next step, work less, and live more. It's not about working part-time: this is about full-time being less time.

Michael's company Icelab has run a four-day week for the last ten years. Find out about, the challenges they faced, how they made it work, and why working less means helps build a happier, more creative, more diverse team.

Michael Honey

Michael is the founder of Icelab, a design and development studio with offices in Canberra and Melbourne. Icelab build interactive projects for clients in the cultural, academic, public and private sectors: their four-day workweek gives the team space to be more fully-rounded humans.

Michael has twenty years' experience in interactive, motion and spatial design: he has degrees in philosophy and his interests include mountains, generative art, politics, and the environment.

Don't miss your chance to see Michael Honey and many other inspiring speakers at Culture 18.

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Praise for past Web Directions events

Phil Whitehouse
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.

Phil Whitehouse,
Innovation Lead DigitasLBi

Ethan Marcotte
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!

Ethan Marcotte,
inventor "responsive Web design"

Dave Greiner
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite

Dave Greiner,
founder Campaign Monitor

About Us

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 20 years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

vignettes from our events, social, speakers and more. Includes Hannah Donovan skylarking.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.

His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.

His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

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