# beyond tellerrand ## [Düsseldorf 2023](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers) Sophie Koonin: [This Website Is under Construction – a Love Letter to the Personal Website](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/sophie-koonin) : Remember Geocities? The unbridled creativity and questionable colour schemes of a bygone era. There was a time when websites existed as reflections of your personality or a shrine to your favourite band rather than carbon copies of a Facebook page or Twitter feed. Content wasn’t algorithmically curated, but shared through links pages and webrings. With modern browsers, we have at our fingertips so many powerful APIs and tools to build the most incredible, beautiful and wonderfully pointless websites that have ever existed, in ways that are accessible and performant like never before. So why aren’t we? Why do all the websites today look the same? This is a manifesto for building something just for the fun of it, and a rallying cry to tell your story on a platform that’s entirely yours. Scott Kellum: [Mapping Typography](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/scott-kellum) : The websites we make are nothing less than multi-dimensional objects: the size and shape of them change with every device and browser they are viewed on. We have lots of new tooling to develop layouts for this multi-dimensional landscape, but one crucial element seems to have resisted our attempts at tooling: our typography. How does our typography both maintain meaningful structure while flexing across our dynamic website space? In this talk, we’ll explore that problem. We will make a map of how text and typography behave in our website landscape, and then take these maps and apply them using CSS animations. In this way, we’ll drive dynamic interpolations across our websites' multiple dimensions. Gemma O’Brien: [How to be an Ultra Artist](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/gemma-o-brien) : After a decade working in the field of graphic design, lettering and illustration, Gemma O’Brien became intrigued with the idea that ultra running might hold the secrets of how to endure a long life as an artist. Join her at beyond tellerrand as she shares the early stories of her career, the hands-on processes behind her largest wall installations and explains what she thinks it means to be an ultra artist! Emily Anhalt: [The 7 Traits of an Emotionally Fit Leader](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/emily-anhalt) : The world is beginning to understand that stress, burnout, anxiety – and, let’s face it, the universal pains of adulting – can drastically affect a company’s bottom line. To be successful today, business leaders and employees need to be emotionally and physically healthy. There are plenty of apps and products that claim to help achieve this, but an effective focus on mental and emotional health must be built from the inside out. In this interactive talk, renowned psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt explores the importance of supporting yourself and your team by developing emotional fitness and gives practical, concrete tips for building a true culture of wellness. Michelle Barker: [Modern CSS Layout is Awesome!](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/michelle-barker) : 2022 was an amazing year for CSS, bringing us a whole host of features to help us solve common layout challenges. In this session we’ll delve into some real-world use cases for container queries, subgrid, the :has() pseudo class (or parent selector) and much more. We’ll explore how to combine these new features with some more familiar ones, in order to build robust, flexible and creative layouts that respond to both content and context. Cassie Evans: [Animating the Impossible](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/cassie-evans) : How best do we achieve smooth UI animations when dealing with DOM changes, responsive layouts, dynamic content and user interaction? Well… we start off by flipping our whole approach upside down. In this session we’ll lift the magicians curtain, take a look at some “impossible” animation challenges, and learn how to approach them using a rather exciting animation technique. ## [Berlin 2022](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022) dina Amin: [Making by Breaking](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/dina-amin) : In this talk dina will share how tinkering and taking things apart was the beginning of her career as a stop motion artist and a maker. She will share how it all started, what she has learnt so far and the biggest mistakes she has made. Espen Brunborg: [Dragon Slayer](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/espen-brunborg) : You wake up, severely underdressed, in a slow moving wooden cart alongside what appears to be a small group of prisoners. One of them looks like a developer of some kind, another one a beaten up Project Manager. Surrounded by tall pine trees, feeling the cold, wet air biting into your skin, you try to gather your thoughts. You can’t remember how you got here, but you instinctively know what lies ahead: Your career as a designer. In the distance, high above snow covered mountains you see a faint shadow moving across the sky. Was that a … dragon? ## [Düsseldorf 2022](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers) Stephanie Eckles: [Scaling CSS Layout Beyond Pixels](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers/stephanie-eckles) : Responsive designs being created today have to serve more users on more devices and with more varied abilities and preferences than ever before. And size and spacing of elements can quite literally make or break your layout. In this new world, strict pixel values are so Web 2.0. Let’s review modern CSS techniques for building future-forward flexibility into our layouts and components. Vasilis van Gemert: [Exclusive Design](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers/vasilis-van-gemert) : A few years ago Vasilis was trying to become a better inclusive designer. During his research he realised that he knew quite a lot about the guidelines and the theory behind technical accessibility, but he didn’t know that much about the people who actually need these guidelines. So, he started to invite real people with disabilities over to their university. In a few different courses his students design and create tailor made products exclusively for and with these people. The idea is, that by closely observing how real people use their computers, they will better understand people and become better designers. Some of the things Vasilis is going to show in this presentation: a tool that makes it harder to type for someone who has difficulty typing, a website without any semantics for someone who is blind, and some funny, yet invisible animations he created for a blind artist. Tim Kadlec: [The Big Picture](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers/tim-kadlec) : One of the most important performance metrics we have for determining how quickly we get meaningful content onto the screen for our site's visitors is the Largest Contentful Paint. Improving this metric, as it turns out, goes hand in hand with understanding image loading — just under 75% of all Largest Contentful Paint’s are triggered by images or background images, and the way those images are loaded has a dramatic impact. Let’s talk about how browsers load images today, common approaches that are slowing us down today, the techniques we have to make things faster and what we can do to make sure that we’re not just optimizing for a single browser engine along the way. Manuel Matuzović: [Lost in Translation](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers/manuel-matuzovic) : A frontend developer’s job is to look at a design, interpret it, and translate it to HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, information often gets lost in translation because we rely too much on visual aspects of a design, rather than its semantic meaning. In his talk, Manuel Matuzović uncovers the invisible patterns we should recognise in a design, and how they affect accessibility. Léonie Watson: [Bag of Spanners](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2022/speakers/leonie-watson) : In the UK we say that something is a "bag of spanners" when it seems to work, but when you look inside it turns out to be badly implemented. Implementing accessible code can sometimes feel like a bag of spanners – something thrown together in ways that will probably give you (or someone using your product) trouble. It doesn't have to be like this though. With an understanding of how accessibility mechanics work in the browser, knowledge of how to provide or polyfill accessibility semantics, and a little bit of effort, you can turn your bag of spanners into a useful set of tools. ## [Hamburg 2022](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/axbt-2022) Bastian Allgeier: [More Light!](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/axbt-2022/speakers/bastian-allgeier) : In an age of multiple crises, we urgently need positive future visions. A reason to fight for and a purpose for our work. There’s no time to despair and a window for huge opportunities – for each and everyone of us. Let’s find them together! ## [Düsseldorf 2021](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers) Bianca Berning: [VFWTF?](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/bianca-berning) : Back in 2016, it was announced that OpenType Font Variations, better known as variable fonts, would be added to the OpenType specification. Since then many type designers have created hundreds of variable fonts. The designs have been both experimental and highly functional, testing not only the boundaries of the technology but also improving web performance. Bianca’s presentation will explore the functional and creative possibilities of variable font technology and will illustrate how this area of type design has developed over the past four years. Aaron Parecki: [Why Do We Really Need OAuth Anyway?](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/aaron-parecki) : Even if you've never heard about OAuth, you've certainly used it in your daily life already. But what purpose does OAuth actually solve? In this session, you'll learn about the original problems OAuth set out to solve, and how it evolved over the years into the foundation of nearly every modern system on the web. This session explains OAuth through the lens of everyday life, without jargon or code. You'll learn how OAuth makes life easier for app developers, and how it enables the best blend of security and usability. Ulrike Rausch: [Unlock the Fun!](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/ulrike-rausch) : Creating outstanding typographic designs is not just about choosing the right font. It’s about using all the super powers that font technology offers you today. In her talk, Ulrike will reveal some playful type experiments that show evidence: type is not just for reading but it’s fun and entertaining, too. You will learn how to tap the full potential of a font, which will enable you to create stunning designs, leaving your clients with a smile. Harry Roberts: [Get Your Straight](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/harry-roberts) : Despite being the only section of a website that a user never sees, the is arguably the most important. It is bound to its own unique set of rules and often governs the overall speed of the page. In this talk, we’ll look at some specific caveats, some fascinating intricacies, and — critically — the optimum order for a faster . Find out why your tags are so messy, so vital, and, I promise you, so interesting. Hidde de Vries: [More to Give than Just the DIV – Semantics and How to Get Them Right](https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/hidde-de-vries) : Shared semantics is the Web´s killer feature that allows developers create accessible experiences. In this talk, Hidde dives into the meaning of semantics (no pun intended), how it improves your site, specific gotchas and the future.