The design conference for people who make websites
An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.
Founded by web visionaries Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, and dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design for two days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment.
NOT YOUR FATHER’S WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE
Whether the topic is creating the right content and features for your audience, designing pages that are a pleasure to read and use, or beating browsers and web gadgets into submission, An Event Apart’s presenters are as gung-ho about it as you are. Each speaker has made genuine contributions to our industry. Each is a star.
The two-day event takes place in one room, on one track. Whether you call yourself a designer, a developer, or any of a dozen other titles, you will learn with your colleagues–just like you work with them in real life.
An Event Apart News
05.04.12 Anatomy of a Design Decision | Jared Spool | Live at An Event Apart | Video
What separates a good design from a bad design are the decisions that the designer made. In this hour-long video, recorded live at An Event Apart San Diego 2010, Jared Spool explores the five styles of design decisions, showing you when gut instinct produces the right results, and when designers need to look to more user-focused research.
04.13.12 Video | Dan Cederholm | The CSS3 Experience
In this entertaining and illuminating full-length talk, recorded live at An Event Apart San Diego, Dan Cederholm explores some of the emerging features in CSS3 and how to use them wisely, all while telling a compelling story about some stuff we left on the moon.
03.23.12 AEA Speaker Spotlight: PPK
A VETERAN of the browser wars, Peter-Paul Koch (better known as PPK) has made the mobile web his passion over the past few years, doing more in-depth testing, analysis, and writing about standards and the mobile web than perhaps anyone else on the planet.
03.09.12 Video | Luke Wroblewski | Mobile First! live at An Event Apart
Captured on video and shown here for the first time is Luke Wroblewski’s seminal presentation at An Event Apart. It is an illuminating and engaging talk, and the spark that gave rise to the best-selling book of the same name.















