This was originally posted on my own site. Download the audio Download the slides Watch the video (slides + audio) Hello, my name is Jeremy and I am speaking to you today from Brighton on the south coast of England. I want to tell you about something that happened here…

This was originally posted on my own site. That event in Berlin last week was by far the largest gathering of humans I’ve been with in over two years. If I was going to finally succumb to the ’rona, this was likely to be the place and time. Sure enough…

This was originally posted on my own site. I’m standing on a huge stage in a giant hangar-like room already filled with at least a thousand people. More are arriving. I’m due to start speaking in a few minutes. But there’s a problem with my laptop. It connects to the…

This was originally posted on my own site. I was in Amsterdam two weeks ago for CSS Day. It was glorious! I mean, even without the conference it was just so nice to travel somewhere — by direct train, no less! …

This was originally posted on my own site. When I wrote about the idea of declarative design it really resonated with a lot of people. I think that there’s a general feeling of frustration with the imperative approach to designing and developing — attempting to specify everything exactly up front…

This was originally posted on my own site. There’s a lot of emphasis put on decision-making: making sure you’re making the right decision; evaluating all the right factors before making a decision. But we rarely talk about revisiting decisions. I think perhaps there’s a human tendency to treat past decisions…

This was originally posted on my own site. dConstruct is back! No, really, for real this time. We had plans to do a one-off dConstruct anniversary event in 2020. It would’ve been five years since the event ran its ten year course from 2005 to 2015. We all know what…

This was originally posted on my own site. I made the website for this year’s UX London by hand. Well, that’s not entirely true. There’s exactly one build tool involved. I’m using Sergey to include global elements — the header and footer — something that’s still not possible in HTML. …

This was originally posted on my own site. I think it was Jason who once told me that if you want to make someone’s life a misery, teach them about typography. After that they’ll be doomed to notice all the terrible type choices and kerning out there in the world…