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Together we will delve into the psychology, physiology, and mathematics of design principles for two key purposes: Validating our design, and Convincing others of the value and validity of our designs.

We will look at best practices for supporting the developer experience, including documentation, processes, tools, and supporting systems.

Although part of most applications (because let’s not kid ourselves the vast majority of applications are CRUD apps) a well designed accessible form is still one of those things that is really hard to achieve. Let's talk about ways we can make them more accessible.

A look at some of the unit tests we can write against a reactive form written in Angular to validate that it does in fact behave the way we intend it to.

In this talk we will look at the history of the display property and ways you can use it to display, hide, and layout content.

10 common accessibility fails, how to test for them, and how to fix them.

In this talk we will cover a little bit about the history of typography leading up to where we are today, how to make decisions about fonts and their usage in our application, and the CSS properties that allow us to manipulate our type for a polished beautiful design.

Instead of looking at code implementation, this talk will cover what questions to ask when getting started and how to read and understand the specification. We will then look at how different roles on the team are affected and the impact and changes including accessibility as part of development will have on the development cycle.

The knowledge you need to go forth and create your own components, understand how to make them look gorgeous, and what if any limitations there are. Also, find out how you can bring back the blink tag!

A developer staple: the CRUD app. We all write them, and they all contain forms. Lots of forms.

As your spell master, I will teach you to cast eloquent spells with a dash CSS transitions, a drop of keyframes and a pinch of html that you can quickly apply to your spells to remove daze and confusion.

Come learn how easy it can be to use Google Firebase to take your app idea from concept to production. In this workshop you will learn how to build your own Twitter-like social messaging application, start to finish.

Tables have gotten a bad reputation over the years. Historically, we used them for layout, a practice thoroughly frowned upon today. When responsive and fluid layouts came into the scene, they proved difficult to work with. As a result, we have shied away from them but it doesn't have to be this way.

In this talk we will delve into the ways in which, especially when working remotely, we communicate and interact, and the little things we can do to make those communications more accessible for all.

This hands on workshop is for those interested in learning how to get started. You will take an existing website and identify and fix its accessibility issues.

From cakes, to pastries and cookies, to bread, there are striking similarities between baking and web development. In this talk we will go over the similarities and how the choices we make in baking can help us make better architectural and planning decisions regarding our development projects.

For almost 15 years we have had Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) to help us write our CSS. But are we really using sass to its fullest? We know about variables, and nesting properties is nice, but what else can it do for us?

In this talk we will go over what accessibility means in the context of web content and how to get your team started in making sure your content can be accessed by all.

In this talk we will go over what the SVG code looks like, what it means, and how to generate it. Then we will delve into not only how to manipulate the styles but also how to add functionality in them such as links and click events.

Together we will delve into the psychology, physiology, and mathematics of design principles to create more usable designs.