CSSConf AU 26^th & 27^th March 2015 Melbourne Meat Market 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne

Andrew Betts

Director of FT Labs, an emerging web tech team at the Financial Times.

Harry Roberts

Consultant Front-end Architect • Writer • Speaker • Previously Senior Developer at BSkyB.

Scott Jehl

Designer/developer who works with the bright folks at Filament Group building websites and applications for clients such as the Boston Globe, LEGO, Global News, eBay, and more.

Claudina Sarahe

NYC-based entrepreneur, front-end architect, organizer, and speaker. She organizes SassConf and runs the monthly NYC Sass meetup.

Sara Soueidan

Freelance front-end web developer, writer, and speaker—focusing on HTML5, SVG, CSS3, and Javascript.

Matt Sawkill

Technical Director at Thick, a strategic design consultancy with a focus on health, education and public services.

Justin Ouellette

Designer and developer of interfaces, real and imagined. Formerly of Muxtape, Tumblr, Vimeo, and the New York Times R&D Lab.

Evangelina Ferreira

Designer, professor and speaker. Works at the National Technological University in Argentina and as freelance web developer.

Benjamin De Cock

User interface designer and front-end developer at Stripe.

Steven Fabre

Product Designer at Campaign Monitor. Lead designer on the Canvas email template builder.

Una Kravets

Front-end designer at IBM Design, Austin. Co-founder of the DC Sass and ATXSass meetups.

Ian Feather

Senior Software Engineer at Schibsted Media. Formerly Client-side Tech Lead at Lonely Planet.

Katie Kurkoski

Web Developer at Getty Images in Seattle. Sasstronaut, nodebot-er and glassblower. CascadiaJS Curator.

Michael Riethmuller

Front-end developer for Department of Human Services. Coastal-dweller. Naturalist-by-proxy.

Fiona Tay

Software engineer on the Core Web team at Airbnb, working on strategy, architecture & tooling.

Kenneth Ormandy

Designer at Surge.sh. Studies type design and organises Type Brigade in Vancouver.

Pre-Conference Social

7pm Wednesday 25th^th — Bartronica

335 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

An open event for the wider Melbourne community in the heart of the CBD. Whether you're coming to CSSConf AU or not, you're invited to join us, meet our speakers and attendees, and play some rad retro video games.

Day 1

Thursday 26^th — Melbourne Meat Market

1. 8:30am Registration
2. 9:30am Welcome
3. 9:40am

   Matt Sawkill

   CSS for humans

   Our roles in a user-centric design process and how our work can make an impact on people's lives.

4. 10:20am

   Katie Kurkoski

   Colour In The Real World

   The history of colour in the physical world: how it works, how artists use colour to trick your brain, and code demos of those tricks.

5. 11:00am Coffee time!
6. 11:40am

   Harry Roberts

   4½ Methods for Theming in (S)CSS

   A detailed look at four (and a bit) different ways to provide various types of theming functionality in your UI projects.

7. 12:20pm

   Evangelina Ferreira

   Newton meets CSS

   Born 400 years before the web, Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician, was a visionary. Motion, optics, gravity, and calculus. Although they seem miles apart, CSS and physics must be put together whenever we face animations and transitions. Today, thanks to an unlimited resource of theorems and laws, we can make smoother and more credible animations by simply applying a little bit of physics to web design!

8. 1:00pm Lunch
9. 2:30pm

   Scott Jehl

   Delivering Responsibly

   We will focus on techniques to deliver our CSS (& dependencies) in ways that boost performance and broaden access, without compromises.

10. 3:10pm

    Ian Feather

    Fundamentals of Front End Ops

    What's the role of Front End Ops and where does it fit into our development lifecycle? How can it help us build better products?

11. 3:45pm Cake time!
12. 4:15pm

    Fiona Tay

    Bye-Bye Bootstrap Bloat

    As they say, one-size-fits-all usually fits none — and that's the same for CSS frameworks! Just like pants, tailoring a framework gets you a better fit. I'll dig into how and why AirBnB forked Bootstrap for a leaner, meaner UI toolkit!

13. 4:55pm

    Benjamin De Cock

    Let's move!

    Animations can make the web engaging, fast and playful. Used judiciously, they can dramatically improve the user experience. Embrace them!

14. 5:45pm Party!
    Sponsored by SitePoint

Day 2

Friday 27^th — Melbourne Meat Market

1. 9:00am Doors open
2. 9:40am

   Sara Soueidan

   Building Better Interfaces With SVG

   How SVG's features allows us to build better interfaces by providing us with an accessible and more semantic way for building UI components. I will argue against using some CSS-only techniques and show how they can be replaced with a better SVG approach.

3. 10:20am

   Kenneth Ormandy

   Efficient Web Type, c. 1556

   It’s 1556, and Pierre Haultin is punching a completely impractical, metal font: it’s space-efficient typographically, but far too small to read in print. He intentionally looked for the boundaries type can perform within. Centuries later, we face a similar dilemma...

4. 11:00am Coffee time!
5. 11:40am

   Steven Fabre

   Invisible animation

   The impact of animation on the user's experience is often an afterthought. I'm showing how animation can help make any interface more usable by explaining and demonstrating the animation's techniques I've used on the online email builder tool created by Campaign Monitor.

6. 12:20pm

   Claudina Sarahe

   NYC-based entrepreneur, front-end architect, organizer, and speaker. She organizes SassConf and runs the monthly NYC Sass meetup. (Talk TBA)

7. 1:00pm Lunch
8. 2:00pm

   Michael Riethmuller

   A CSS Eulogy

   Be prepared to say goodbye to some much loved design patterns and CSS techniques as we look at the remarkable things we've done with them, remember fondly where they came from, why we used them and ask ourselves why (oh why!) are they no longer needed. In our grief we also will look at some new techniques and patterns that you can use now to help you move on.

9. 2:40pm

   Justin Ouellette

   Clean and Simple

   The qualities of being "clean" and "simple" are often sought by designers of user interfaces, but what do these words really mean, and how do they differ (if at all?) What makes cleanliness and simplicity so desirable in the first place?

10. 3:30pm Cake time!
11. 4:00pm

    Andrew Betts

    Moving towards web components

    Components, containers and modules, they're the future. But we've got a lot of past too. We need front end development that is unopinionated, compatible with legacy projects, forwards-looking towards web components, and can be used today.

12. 4:40pm

    Una Kravets

    Open Source Design: A Call to Arms

    When designers and developers work together from the start, it improves a product's adoption and user experience. But how can we get designers involved and wanting to participate in the open source community from the start? We'll focus on actionable steps and what we can do right now to create a more inclusive open source community.

13. 5:30pm Conference close

Closing Party

7:30pm Friday 27^th — 1000£ Bend

361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

After two mind-blowing days, join us at the impressive 1000£ Bend gallery space for a night of visual installations and live music. There'll be drinks, food, amazing people and disco balls. We wouldn't miss it for the world!

Decompress

9am Saturday 28^th — Melbourne Meat Market

A huge day of hacks, workshops & lightning talks. Free for CSSConf attendees.
More details at decompress.com.au