ffconf 2022
2022-11-10
Brighton, United Kingdom
ffConf ·
[ffconf 2014, ffconf 2015, ffconf 2016, FFConf 2017, ffConf 2018, ffconf 2019, ffconf 2022, ffconf 2023, ffconf 2024]
as the organisers put it
FFConf is a one-day web development conference in Brighton, UK, featuring eight curated sessions on the future of the web.
who it's for
front-end developers, product designers, ux researchers, accessibility specialists, web performance engineers, web sustainability leads, creative coders, healthcare technologists
topics
design justice framework; values and actor mapping; 12-column grid systems; atomic design components; progressive enhancement for personal sites; Webmention social replies; CSS container queries and cascade layers; has() parent selector and accent-color; Web Audio API oscillators and BufferSource; OffscreenCanvas with AnalyzerNode visuals; AVIF and WebP image compression
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Designing as we want, to create the experiences that we need | Florence Okoye | 29m |
Argues that systemic ethical problems shrink into testable product choices by combining socio‑technical principles with ordinary UX tools: use the design… | ||
| Capitalism, The Web, And You | Heydon Pickering | 38m |
Argues capitalism is the privatisation of social capital and lists concrete externalities: worker burnout, environmental collapse from proof-of-work, and… | ||
| Design for Developers | Lex Lofthouse | 38m |
Covers four concrete UI rules—hierarchy, proximity, contrast, balance—and shows how small changes make big differences: improve readability by fixing… | ||
| This Talk is Under Construction | Sophie Koonin | 36m |
Argues that the personal website is a lost art and shows concrete fixes: builds six themes with a theme switcher, uses plain HTML and CSS with a little… | ||
| Programming with Yarn | Lily Madar | 27m |
Argues that crochet functions as a programming language: stitches are instructions, yarn is data and the hook is a runtime/ compiler, with a standardised… | ||
| Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard | Natalia Waniczek | 27m |
Tech causes roughly 3.7% of global greenhouse gases and data centres use about 3% of global electricity and 2% of emissions, so hosting matters: use Green Web… | ||
| Digital exclusion in healthcare & how to change it | Sareh Heidari | 44m |
Uptake of web-first healthcare is concrete: 20 million adults booked vaccinations online leading to about 61 million jabs, and video consultations run via text… | ||
| Day Disco | Ruth John | 24m |
Demo builds a small drum kit using the Web Audio API: oscillators with waveform types (sine, triangle), a frequency linear ramp from ~130Hz down to 1Hz over… | ||
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