NB: This is a two-day workshop.

Ready for responsive? It’s not just about layout anymore: a responsive redesign will uncover challenges with your current design, development, and publishing processes. Whether you’re just starting out or already in the thick of things, Karen and Ethan can help you make the move to mobile and beyond.

Ethan coined the term “responsive web design” and his popular book on responsive design has been widely praised. Karen advocates for truly device-independent content in her book Content Strategy for Mobile. Together, they will help you understand the full scope of what’s involved in making a responsive project go smoothly.

If you want to know how to launch a responsive redesign right, in this full-day learning session you’ll hear the collective wisdom gleaned from their work with dozens of companies that have already been through the process.

What you’ll learn

This workshop will cover:

• Our Multi-Device Future: Karen lays the groundwork for understanding why mobile and responsive design change the way that teams work together.
• Responsive Design’s Flexible Foundation: Ethan explains how a flexible foundation aligns with the way the web works—and how your team needs to work.
• Content Strategy for Mobile: Karen introduces a framework for helping to revise and evolve your content to support a responsive redesign.
• Fundamentals of Responsive Layout: Ethan explains the core concepts behind responsive design in a way that everyone (not just developers) can understand.
• Process and Performance: Ethan discusses how the design and development process must change, and why performance is everyone’s problem.
• Responsive Design Governance: Karen describes how organizations roll out responsive, and how hiring, org structure, and workflow need to evolve.

Who it’s for

This workshop is appropriate for designers, developers, content owners, and business stakeholders—anyone who participates in making a responsive redesign happen.

What to bring

Nothing is required, but a laptop and/or a mobile device is welcome!

Ten years ago most websites were small affairs, with perhaps a handful of pages and very simple designs. Today, however, the majority of websites are very different beasts…

There’s no denying that web -sites, -services and -apps are getting much bigger; more views, more pages, more layouts, more browsers on more devices, more developers contributing to codebases: it’s time we levelled up our CSS.

What you’ll learn

This full-day workshop shall give a whirlwind overview of:

• how to assess, normalise, and rationalise designs;
• how to split designs up into discrete objects, abstractions and components;
• naming conventions and general advice for naming things;
• the ITCSS architecture for managing CSS projects;
• how to effectively manage layout;
• theming and skinning;
• how to use Sass to tie things together;
• and anything more you think of on the day!

What to bring

So much to cover; so little time! Bring your laptop and your best CSS game and let’s get cracking. It’s gonna be fun!

Drawn from his own management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec and now Pinterest, Michael Lopp will lead a workshop exploring the problem of people and how to deal with them.

People. Your company is full of them. They’re in meetings cluttering your agenda with their confusing and colorful personalities. They’re wandering your hallways with their endless list of questions. They’re sitting in your office and they’re not happy; they’re angry and it’s your job to help.

The role of a manager and of leader to is manage these humans. In this half day workshop, we’re going to dissect and analyze the worst meeting you’ve attended. We’re going to talk about strategies for managing the hallway. We’re going to take a close look at conflict and discuss not how to avoid it, but rather how to surf it.

Whether it’s dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion; whether you’re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there’ll be something in this workshop that will speak to you – and help you survive and prosper.

If you’ve ever got tangled up in Git commands, or always have to ask the Git guru on your team for help, this workshop is for you. We’ll look at what you can do to get yourself out of common holes.

As a group, we will explore common scenarios like merge conflicts, undoing history, resetting history and other tips and tricks to gain greater confidence and control over your Git workflow.

Once we’re done, your teammates will come to *you* for help getting out of sticky situations.

What you’ll learn

You will walk away from this workshop informed about how to resolve common problems using Git for version control. You’ll be able to resolve conflicts faster, and control your contributions to a Git repository with confidence.

We’ll also cover some general tips and tricks to make use of Git to find and update what you need, faster.

You will gain understanding of possible workflows, and insights into how you might use them.

Who it’s for

This workshop is for people who use Git, whether developers, designers, or project managers. We’ll be using the command line in the workshop, but prior experience with this is not necessary.

Some prior experience with git will be useful, we will not be covering the very basics of committing and branching, just the tips and tricks to help you day to day.

What to bring

• Laptop
• Git installed (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
• We will provide a sample git repository at the workshop, so no need to have something cloned already
• Please bring examples of sticky situations you’ve gotten into recently! We’d love to talk through how we can get out of them

Who it’s for

Anybody who wants their world rocked.

This workshop will not only illuminate the mobile opportunity, it will provide practical advice on how to take advantage of it.

What you’ll learn

You’ll learn to:

• Avoid desktop tendencies that result in poor mobile experiences
• Design for how people actually use mobile devices
• Work with native and web design conventions
• Optimize designs for small screens
• Take advantage of mobile capabilities
• Start from the mobile experience and extend outward

Who it’s for

This workshop delivers the most important information designers need to get the mobile experience right—and does it with Luke’s patented mix of entertaining examples and analysis, plus data you can bring back to the boss.

What to bring

Your laptop and a desire to learn a lot.