Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2018
2018-11-05..2018-11-08
Berlin, Germany
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as the organisers put it
beyond tellerrand is an affordable event about web design, development, creativity, design and much more. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich.
who it's for
web designers, front-end developers, product designers, design managers, creative coders, platform engineers
topics
variable font integration; CSS box model and flow-root; flexbox alignment techniques; CSS grid with nested flex; color fonts and variable color; design ops and leveling systems; identity federation and SSO; Concourse pipelines and canary releases; machine-learning bias in products; creative code for optics; lockpicking and hardware failures
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Accidental (Design) Leader | Andy Budd | 41m |
Founding Clearleft and running a 30-person team leads to hard lessons: hiring is constant, new hires average 18 months, and scaling on passion fails. Practical… | ||
| Box Alignment | Chen Hui Jing | 44m |
Explains how the CSS box model and display:flow-root actually stop collapsing margins and contain floats, shows using margin:auto centering inside flex for… | ||
| The New Design Material | Josh Clark | 52m |
A $400 “juice” device sells itself as innovation but just squeezes prefabricated packs, exposing design theater; Slack ships a Slack expert finder that ranks… | ||
| Extreme Typography on the Web | David Jonathan Ross | 39m |
A designer builds Fit, a variable display face that fills any box and morphs width without stretching, pairs it with a fit‑to‑width JS, and shows real savings… | ||
| Conquer Variable Web Typography | Oliver Schöndorfer | 33m |
Variable fonts store many styles in one file and the talk shows concrete wins and pitfalls: an experiment replaces 18 files → 632 KB vs 1 file 56 KB, browser… | ||
| Build Bridges, Not Walls – Design for Users Across Cultures | Jenny Shen | 36m |
Uses Hofstede and Erin Meyer to compare cultures, runs heatmaps and Google Analytics, and tests local UI patterns (Chinese apps use a compass “discover” icon… | ||
| Prismatic | Frederik Vanhoutte | 39m |
Claims that the textbook prism story is incomplete and shows why by building live simulations of rainbow from raindrop caustics, uses Java/Processing creative… | ||
| I, Human | Léonie Watson | 34m |
Covers concrete demos and failures: Microsoft Seeing AI is shown working—phone camera + cloud gives useful scene and person descriptions—while Watson fed Urban… | ||
| The Abridged History Of Having Fun \/\/ith Keyboards | Marcin Wichary | 47m |
A tour of concrete curios: a 1873 typewriter with its mechanical Enter, the 1874 Mark Twain family letter, a solved mystery about the red X and power-repeat… | ||
| Warmup - Bifrost | Daniel Stamer | 09m |
MPS Bifröst presents a cloud native enterprise SSO gateway that centralises identities with single sign-on and identity federation, built on AWS and issuing… | ||
| Warmup - From Print to Screen | Johannes Ippen | 11m |
Argues that print infographics become interactive digital tools that increase discovery but not attention, citing 2.5 billion social media users as the… | ||
| Warmup - Lockpicking | Mark Koelle | 14m |
Chronicles lock designs from Mesopotamian bars to modern Bluetooth padlocks and gives concrete wins and failures: a detector lock yields in 25 minutes and… | ||
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