Future Frontend 2026
2026-06-08..2026-06-09
Espoo, Finland
[Future Frontend 2023, Future Frontend 2024, Future Frontend 2026]
who it's for
frontend developers, ux designers, accessibility engineers, frontend architects, engineering managers, ai engineers, product designers
topics
TensorFlow.js emotion models; ffmpeg.wasm browser video editing; forced-colors media query fixes; accessible authentication patterns; passkeys and MFA fallbacks; Model Client Protocol frontends; AI-first frontend architecture; agents at the application layer; permacomputing and low-tech resilience; frontend sunsetting and tokenization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mood Video | Pasi Sillanpää, Joe Macleod, Laura Snell | 02m |
A concrete system that generates short mood videos from webcam and microphone input shows a browser-only pipeline and a live demo that actually runs. It uses… | ||
| We Don't Have an Idea Problem. We Have a Permission Problem. | Pasi Sillanpää | 27m |
Claim: lack of permission, not lack of ideas. Gives concrete fixes and outcomes: replacing approval gates with ask people to say what they will do (submarine… | ||
| Endineering | Joe Macleod | 21m |
Argues product design must include a plan for endings and gives concrete tools: a catalog of 8 ending types, checklists for sunsetting and tokenization… | ||
| Designing futures panel | Pasi Sillanpää, Joe Macleod | 40m |
Argument: endings are a neglected design problem with measurable effects — a concrete example is 7-year warranty doubled market share at Kia, off-boarding can… | ||
| Not Loud, Still Powerful - Taking Agency Without Becoming Someone Else | Laura Snellman-Junna | 26m |
Argues that quiet influence happens through concrete actions: design choices and embedded values, targeted questions, and clear boundaries rather than loud… | ||
| Designing Leadership Growth in Tech Teams (When Developers Just Want to Code) | Anastasiia Zvenigorodskaia | 32m |
Argues leadership is a trainable skill not a title and shows a reproducible system: score everyone on agreed skills in a shared Google Sheet (GPT can generate… | ||
| Future of work panel | Laura Snellman-Junna, Anastasiia Zvenigorodskaia | 25m |
Discussion centers on concrete practices: a numeric rating table aggregated across many raters to reduce bias, three-to-six-month personal development reviews… | ||
| This is not the tech I signed up for! – An approach to permacomputing | Darío Gutiérrez Mori | 46m |
Claim: permacomputing reframes computing around longevity and locality rather than growth, advocating maximize hardware lifespan and use old laptops and phones… | ||
| Building Resilience: Sustain the Maker | Georgios Diamantopoulos | 55m |
Claims concrete evidence: artery elasticity drops 2–4% after three hours of sitting (1% adds ~13% heart‑disease risk), 4,500 genes change after three days of… | ||
| Accessibility Adventures - The Lost Secrets of Forced Colors Mode | Daniel Yuschick | 33m |
Defines what forced-colors media query actually does: a browser in forced colors mode removes many CSS properties (notably box-shadow) and maps semantics to… | ||
| The Cake Is a Lie... And So Is Your Login's Accessibility | Ramona Schwering | 28m |
Shows a real React login component, runs a Mac VoiceOver demo, and implements concrete fixes that actually make errors and fields visible to screen readers… | ||
| Frontend after AI: The new UX | Tejas Kumar | 33m |
Claims that taste is trainable and that measurable UX wins matter now: optimize LCP, CLS and ARIA/WCAG, because a 100ms improves conversions and perceived… | ||
| Accessibility panel | Daniel Yuschick, Ramona Schwering, Tejas Kumar | 13m |
Discussion gives concrete takeaways: build an agent harness around LLMs and do manual reviews so generated UIs do not introduce flashing or inaccessible… | ||
| Modern UI Patterns | Una Kravets | 44m |
Claims concrete features and demos: building hover cards and customizable drop‑down menus with zero JavaScript, using new CSS like light dark and… | ||
| Hypermedia – the solution for future web applications? | Juho Vepsäläinen | 33m |
Argues that pushing state back to the server makes web apps smaller and simpler, claims site payloads grow roughly fivefold every decade, demonstrates… | ||
| Simplicity panel | Una Kravets, Juho Vepsäläinen | 17m |
Google describes shipping modern web guidance, a set of agent skills trained on new CSS/HTML plus progressive enhancement fallbacks so models stop… | ||
| Bringing a bit of architecture in your frontend application | Matthew Mamonov | 48m |
Demo shows a geocoding map control built as a standalone subapp using clean architecture with concrete adapters for Maplibre/OpenLayers and Photon/Nominatim… | ||
| AI-first frontend architecture | Rashmi Suralkar | 26m |
Claims that AI becomes a core platform capability, embedding agentic decision-making into rendering, state management, accessibility and personalization rather… | ||
| Architecture panel | Matthew Mamonov, Rashmi Suralkar | 17m |
Panel argues a concrete claim: Uncle Bob: stop reading code, manage by code coverage and cyclomatic complexity, and responses split — one predicts that future… | ||
| The AI Velocity Trap: Shipping Faster Without Breaking More | Ohans Emmanuel | 27m |
Claim: AI-assisted velocity often shifts defects downstream and raises regressions and incidents. Evidence: agents (Code Rabbit, Co-pilot review, Cursor… | ||
| Building My Own Coding Agent | Christoffer Niska | 32m |
Acolyte is a locally run coding agent built from scratch that argues the model is rarely the bottleneck and the surrounding harness is what makes or breaks… | ||
| Agentic development panel | Ohans Emmanuel, Christoffer Niska | 30m |
Claims include an 8x faster claim from provider comparisons, concrete tooling like Acolyte with 15 encoded skills (build, plan, code-review, TDD) and… | ||
| Agents at the Application Layer | Alex Booker, Tony Kovanen | 49m |
Mastra is a TypeScript framework that shows how real agents run: a weather agent using five mini calls a weather tool, streams deltas to a Next.js frontend… | ||
| The Headless Web | Rachel Nabors | 49m |
Claim: React components become streaming UI that run inside agents; evidence: agent traffic eclipsed human traffic months earlier than predicted. Tools… | ||
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