A lovely heartfelt personal look back at dConstruct.
dConstruct was about the big ideas, but not in a wanky TED way. It was about ideas on the horizon brought into focus, it always left me wanting to know more.
dConstruct was never about the big showy thing that will make you millions. It was about the interesting. It gave you seeds to take away with you, and that’s important.
I’m really excited about John’s talk at this year’s UX London. Feels like a good time to revisit his excellent talk from dConstruct 2015:
I’m going to be opening up the second day of UX London 2024, 18th-20th June. As part of that talk, I’ll be revisiting a talk called Metadesign for Murph which I gave at dConstruct in 2015. It might be one of my favourite talks that I’ve ever given.
Benjamin’s retrospective on three years of volunteering at web conferences, some of them run by Clearleft.
Beyond Tellerrand has a new website and it’s beautiful!
And look! Past speakers like me get our own page.
In fact there’s a great big archive of all the past talks—that very much deserves your support as a friend of Beyond Tellerrand.
I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.
What a slap in the face of every tech conference that claims it is simply not possible to have a truly representative line-up: multiple perspectives, multiple faces, multiple experiences, rather than the same default one we’ve all been staring at for decades (that’s a white middle aged man in case you’re wondering. I do love you, white middle aged man, but we’ve heard from you, and keep hearing from you. Time to hear from others, too).
Yes, my friend. It is possible. UX London has done it. The Clearleft team has done it. Go look for yourself.
dConstruct, Web Dev Conf, and State Of The Browser.
Michael Kibedi, Ben Sauer, and Lou Downe!
Three excellent days of discovery, design, and delivery at the start of June.
You’ve got one week to grab one!
Get your Web Day Out ticket in the next ten days and get a free online streaming ticket for State Of The Browser!