Future of Frontend Frameworks

Mark Otto, Creator of Bootstrap and currently designer at GitHub

• Today: Comprehensive Frontend Frameworks
• Tomorrow: Builders / Customizations / Themes – "Compilation Framework"
• Next week: Responsive Widgets, Designing apps with the browser

Documentation / Styleguides are important

Fixing the Broken Web

Rodney Rehm

Author of

• JavaScript library URI.js
• Smashing Magazine Article Designing Better JavaScript APIs

Automated CSS tests coming up 2014/2015

• http://www.webplatform.org/
• http://testthewebforward.org/

New Techniques in Web Design

Vitaly Friedman

Atomic Design

• Element Collages

Experience Decay

Resolution Independence

• SVG Sprites
• SVG Stacks
• Icon Fonts
• Icon Stacks
• Fontello, Icomoon

Building the Web in 2018

Roger Dudler of Frontify

I didn't attend :-(Tons of tools... Watch the video or skip through the presentation!

Gearing up for Google Glass Development

Maximiliano Firtman

Interesting, not relevant for most people at the moment. Still waiting the power use case for Google Glass. Best uses are navigation, sms, phone calls (good audio quality).

Frontend Performance

Urban Etter

Mostly basics about page load. Some information about jQuery performance. Good list about tools similar to YSlow

ResponsiveWeb Typography

Marko Dugonjić

I didn't attend :-( Heard rumors about being a good presentation, too.

Patterns of Large-Scale JavaScript Applications

Kim Joar Bekkelund

About JavaScript MVC frameworks, continuous testing, dependeny injection, JavaScript package manager.

The ResponsibleProgrammer

Jan Lenhardt

A political or ethical appeal for giving back to society - e.g. by educating about computers or programming. Chris Mills added it might be easier to find time and resources for stuff like that when adversiting for your company or product at the same time.

How to Build the Perfect Product Your Users Want But Can't Describe

John Peebles

• B2B software products usually suck.
• Know your personas
• Use your own software
• Don't solve a solution

Getting rid of Images using CSS3

Chris Mills

Good reference. SVG and CSS3 techniques, custom fonts.

Slides

Tech lightning Talks

5 x 5 minute talks

Getting rid of double breakpoints for Responsive Design

Esther Brunner

Anzeixer

Remote Workflow

Menno Pietersen

Mentioned Trello, Foundation

Responsive E-Mails

Julie Ng

• Slides
• Repository

slidedeck.io

Marc Friederich, antistatique.net

Open Device Labs

Andre Jay Meissner

Serious JS

Ingvar Stepanyan

Some impressive live hacking. Using jBinary for extracting data form files in the browser.

How to make your frontend accessible

Thomas Jaggi and Werner Hänggi

Good accessibilty demonstration with a blind software engineer.

• Demos
• Slides

Locking the front door: browser-side security

Mike West

About CSP SSL connections and XSS attacks.

Link Collection

• Stripe Payment Provider (from John Peebles)
• Trello Collaboration Tool (from Menno Pietersen)
• Foundation Responsive Front-End Framework (from Menno Pietersen)