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Design systems come with a lot of promises. While those promises can be realised, that's not a given. And there's a lot to be said about process and how it works on the inside. During Design Systems Week, we'll get a peak into of the work of some very interesting teams.

I spoke at an event that turned out to have some lies surrounding it, documenting this for future reference.

Some notes from two talks I saw recently about making better documentation.

I experienced my first web conference during The Situation.

My notes from reading the Internet Health Report 2019.

Write-up of the Drupal and WordPress meetup.

This week I attended the Digital Design Ethics conference in Amsterdam. I learned about calm technology, how platforms are abused, what our options are and how to try and prevent abuse earlier. My write-up of the day.

A write-up of performance.now() conference in Amsterdam.

Some things I learned at the 2018 MozFest in London.

This week I attended Brique, a new conference about design. This post contains some things I picked up.

At ICONS, three speakers shared their view on what I can only paraphrase as: to do something that matters.

My thoughts about Mozilla’s one week Accessibility Design Sprint.

A quick summary of the Inclusive Design and Accessibility Meetup on 20 July in Rotterdam.

My write-up of Patterns Day 2017, on 30 June in Brighton.

My notes from the ICONS meetup with Léonie Watson on 31 May 2017.

Some thoughts after seeing the Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake.

My notes from Harry Roberts’ performance workshop in Amsterdam on 9 March, 2017.

My notes from the Inclusive Design and Accessibility meetup, 20 February 2017 in Amsterdam.

My notes from From The Front 2016.

My takeaways from the Progressive Web App Dev Summit, organised by Google in Amsterdam.

Write-up of Jeremy Keith’s talk at ICONS in Amsterdam.

My notes from NCDT, the Dutch digital accessibility conference

My notes from ConfConf, the conference for conference organisers.

My write-up of Fronteers Spring Conference 2016.

Write-up of World IA Day 2016 in Bristol

Write-up of Responsive Day Out 3, on 20 June 2015 in Brighton

Every time you add HTML to a page, think ‘what does this expose to the accessibility tree?’ My notes from Léonie Watson’s talk at Accessible Bristol.

Some notes about the Accessible Bristol meetup about cognitive accessibility

A summary of Collaborate Conference in Bristol

On the 27th of July, I went to Responsive Day Out 2 in Brighton.

My notes from Museums get Mobile, 16 May 2014 in Bristol.

At State of the Browser, I saw talks about things like @viewport, Service Workers, responsive images and Firefox OS. My notes of the day.

I went to London to meet the TAG, where things like the web’s design principles, drm, web components and URLs were discussed.

Handheld 2013 was about a variety of subjects, including struture, client expectations and data poetry. A round-up.

Notes from Mark Boulton’s workshop.

A write-up of a wonderful day at the MShed in Bristol.