Our sixth group of speakers are Sarah Semark, Dmitry Mayorov, Michael Arestad, John Maeda and Morten Rand-Hendriksen; and they will talk (among other things) about design topics. Please welcome them!
Sarah Semark – Night of the living style guides
Sarah Semark is a designer, developer, and world-traveller. After running a business for eight years, she now works for Automattic designing and building WordPress themes. In her talk “Night of the living styleguides” she will introduce us to styleguides for visualizing our work, making sure it stays consistent and answering the question “Why bother?”.
Dmitry Mayorov – New to theme design? Here’s what you should know.
Dmitry builds custom WordPress themes and plugins and runs a theme shop called ThemePatio where he creates simple and functional WordPress themes for bloggers, creatives, and business owners. You can make many mistakes starting off with theme design and Dmitry wants to help you with a good start in his talk “New to theme design? Here’s what you should know”
Michael Arestad – Big design troubles in open source
Michael is a designer at Automattic working on Jetpack and WordPress.com. He contributes to the WordPress project and is the most active on the design team. “What the heck can we do to improve the design process on open source projects?” asks Michael in his talk “Big design troubles in open source” and he will address the challenges including: communication difficulties, tech limitations, slow implementation times, community pushback, complex developer tools, unique design considerations, and lack of design process.
John Maeda – The three kinds of design
Global Head Computational Design and Inclusion of Automattic, John Maeda is a formerly Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, President of Rhode Island School of Design and Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory. In “The three kinds of design” John will talk about how the old concept of bringing in a designer after everything is done to make it pretty is obsolete and how designers can improve this.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen – CSS Grid Changes Everything (about web layouts)
Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a senior staff instructor at LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com with 60+ courses published on WordPress, web standards, design and UX, and future technologies. He also teaches Interaction Design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and contributes to WordPress core and community projects. With CSS Grid now live in all major browsers you will learn in his talk “CSS Grid Changes Everything (about web layouts)” through examples, code snippets, and practical demos how to use CSS Grid in a theme for modern responsive layouts.
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