The design conference for people who make websites
An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.
Founded by web visionaries Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, and dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design for two days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment.
NOT YOUR FATHER’S WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE
Whether the topic is creating the right content and features for your audience, designing pages that are a pleasure to read and use, or beating browsers and web gadgets into submission, An Event Apart’s presenters are as gung-ho about it as you are. Each speaker has made genuine contributions to our industry. Each is a star.
The two-day event takes place in one room, on one track. Whether you call yourself a designer, a developer, or any of a dozen other titles, you will learn with your colleagues–just like you work with them in real life.
An Event Apart News
02.17.12 AEA Speaker Spotlight: Simon Collison
ALL-AROUND POLYMATH Simon Collison is a world-renowned designer, author, organizer, and thinker. In the hopes of stealing just a smidgen of his brilliance for our own use, we asked Simon a few questions ahead of his appearance at AEA Seattle. Q. What’s the main takeaway from your talk? The focus is on restraint and economy [...]
02.13.12 Kristina Halvorson – Message and Medium: Better Content by Design
Designing for multichannel content delivery (mobile, anyone?) means an entirely new set of considerations and challenges for web professionals everywhere. In this hour-long presentation live at An Event Apart, Kristina Halvorson teaches you to identify your key business messages, understand how they inform your content strategy, and learn how they impact multi-channel content development and design.
02.03.12 AEA Speaker Spotlight: Karen McGrane
In our ongoing quest to learn as much as possible from our brilliant and talented colleagues, we ran a few questions by Karen McGrane of Bond Art+Science.
01.13.12 Full-length An Event Apart video: Jeremy Keith on the essence of interactivity
INTERACTION IS THE SECRET SAUCE of the web. Understanding interaction is key to understanding the web as its own medium—it’s not print, it’s not television, and it’s certainly not the desktop. Learn how to wield HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to craft experiences that are native to the web in this intellectually thrilling presentation by Jeremy [...]
“The passion the presenters have for their work is evident and it makes me proud to be in the same field.” Anne C. Fowler
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