January 12, 2018 at 13:26The biggest events of 2018: design and frontend
At the beginning of last year, we compiled a selection of entertaining events that designers should mark on their calendar, and today it's time to continue this undertaking. This time we decided to focus on the most significant events of the world for specialists of different profiles. The material under the cut covers the directions of design and front-end; The second part of the article is devoted to development and testing. The selection included mainly large conferences, for which it makes sense to prepare, tune in and save in advance, as well as some interesting educational events. At the end of the article you will find links to resources where it is convenient to track the full range of gatherings, courses and local initiatives. Additions and suggestions, as always, are welcome.
Design weekend
Where and when:
Ulyanovsk - January 20-21
Address: ul. Of the Iron Division, 5B, “Boiling Point” co-working
Smolensk - February 23-25
Perm - March 24-25
Kirov April 28-29
Samara - April-May
(exact addresses will be announced in the VKontakte group )
Participation conditions: Free, registration is required
Design weekend is a public educational, fundamentally non-profit, project of the Russian design community. This year, a series of meetings will be held for the sixth time. The participants set as their goal the exchange of practical knowledge and experience between the capital and the regions and improving the quality of design in Russia. The event takes place in different parts of the country in the form of two-day seminars initiated by local design communities. The program of each specific visiting conference is formed freely and flexibly, depending on the interests of the community. This year, Design Weekends are announced in five cities and in each case they will cover a special range of topics that are relevant for local specialists. In Ulyanovsk, the conversation will be about design, product design, mobile applications, augmented reality, design thinking, creative practices. In Smolensk, the speakers' attention will be focused on territorial branding, urban environment, urban studies, graphic design, and illustration. Perm designers will discuss: big data visualization, services for the city, neural networks and artificial intelligence in design.
KRUPA
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, Stolichnoe highway, 103, RamadaEncoreKiev conference center
When: February 10,
Participation conditions: 3200 UAH. (6,478 rubles)
The largest Ukrainian UIX event of 2018 - the KRUPA conference - will bring together 11 speakers from 4 countries of the world and 950 listeners. Among the participants is the legendary AlanCooper from the USA. Here are some topics of reports: VR in web design, cases from the mobile life of Ukrainian e-commerce, user research for enterprise projects.
Winter Intensive Course “Service UX-Design-2”
Where: Moscow
Seminars + practice + master classes: ul. Godovikova, 9/4
Workshop "Technical Design": Mira ave., 26/1
When: Seminars + practice - February 14-16
Master classes - February 19-28
Master class "Technical Design" - March 3
Terms of participation: from 35 000 rubles. (detailed information is available on the website and at the organizers)
The course program consists of classes in three different formats: seminars, practice and master classes. The course will allow you to delve into the intricacies of the application of methods and tools in building the design of services. Emphasis will also be placed on the problems of organizing the design process and decisions on organizing an effective development process and product management.
World Information Architecture Day (WIAD 18)
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Flower, 19, Selectel
When: February 24
Terms of participation: free, registration required
An international conference designed to foster the creation of clear, affordable and easy-to-use digital products. The global theme of 2018 is “IA forGood” - convenience, protecting users from errors, achieving mutual understanding in the digital world. The conference is being held in St. Petersburg by UX SPb, a community of UX specialists.
Chipets-3
Where: Krasnoyarsk, st. Aerovokzalnaya, 10, ICDC “Pilot”
When: March 17,
Participation conditions: from 1000 rubles.
Professional conference, consisting of two streams: design and engineering, management. The event can be interesting to project managers, developers, managers and owners of companies and, of course, to designers and planners. The event gathers participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Orel, Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Abakan. Reports will be presented on a variety of topics: from the balance between creativity and pragmatism in the development of corporate sites to managing user behavior. Conference organizers: Chipsa, D2D, Tagline. On the site you can also apply for participation as a speaker.
CodeFest 2018
Where: Novosibirsk, ul. Stantsionnaya, 104, Expocenter
When: March 31 - April 1
Terms of participation:8 800 rub. Registration will be open on February 6, the
annual largest event beyond the Urals - CodeFest 2018 - for developers, designers, testers and project managers. Speakers from 16 countries, representatives of major IT companies are expected.
ProfsoUX 18
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolskaya, Center "Petrokongress"
When: April 14,
Participation conditions: from 2800 rubles.
Seventh annual usability and user experience design conference. The event can be of interest to both UX specialists and designers, as well as analysts, project or product managers, developers and testers. The conference will consist of reports and workshops from representatives of leading Russian IT companies. Participants will learn how to conduct UX research on a tight budget, how to implement creative UX tasks and how to analyze their results, get acquainted with the experience of designing truly high-quality sites, applications and programs, as well as hear about effective ways to interact with the customer.
DesignThinkingCamp
Where: Moscow, Perevedenovsky Lane, 18, CTI “Factory”, p. 8, 3 et., 8-32
When: August 1-3,
Conditions of participation: 15,000 rubles.
3 days of lectures and open workshops as part of the summer camp for beginners, practitioners and experts in design thinking. Russian and foreign speakers will share with the audience valuable knowledge on the topic “Consumer insights”. Exchange of experience, useful information about what your users expect, how to create a universal design and whether it is possible, how to include a user in the design, and much more.
AwwwardsConference (DigitalThinkersConf)
Where: Germany, Berlin (address to be confirmed)
When: February 7–9
Conditions of participation: 393 € - 845 € (26 726 - 57 465 rubles)
Where: USA, San Francisco (address to be confirmed)
When: 10 -May 11th
Terms of participation: $ 425 - $ 550 (24,245 - 31,375 rubles)
One of the industry's most respected conferences. The event attracts influential and powerful speakers who inspire, teach and guide professionals around the world, creating the future of web design. In 2018, DigitalThinkersConf will be held in Germany and the United States. The range of topics ranges from theoretical considerations on creativity, impostor syndrome, and debugging workflows to specific recommendations for using AR and increasing engagement. Several workshops will also be held at the Berlin venue, which will also touch upon the problems of the front-end.
UXistanbulConference 2018
Where: Turkey, Istanbul, EskiBüyükdere, MaslakBusinessCenter
When: February 20
Terms of participation: 1000 ₺ (15,200 rubles)
The fourth annual conference of Uxistanbul holds the bar for the “first UX event in Turkey”, attracting UIX specialists from world-famous companies to exchange experiences. This time the focus will be on service design. Experts will present their views on popular methodologies and practices, explain the relationship of service design with UX and outline the scope of application of the latest technologies.
UX DesignSummit
Where: USA, San Francisco, Market Street, 845
When: March 1,
Conditions of participation: $ 449 - $ 599 (25,540 - 34,070 rubles)
UX DesignSummit is a meeting place for representatives of major global companies such as Facebook, Google, Spotify. Specialists will share valuable information on how to create an unforgettable user experience. Insights and stories of famous designers will help students to open new horizons in their work.
UXinsight 2018
Where: Netherlands, Utrecht, Westkanaaldijk, 7, The Fabrique Building
When: March 7-8,
Participation Terms: 284 € - 526 € (19,280 - 35,700 rubles)
An international event that includes both sessions with reports and a series of workshops. The organizers emphasize that the event provides a wealth of material on UX research, as well as examples of real-world practices and tips for selecting tools. All reports will be presented in English.
UX Salon 2018
Where: Israel, Tel Aviv (address to be confirmed)
When: May 6-7
Terms of participation: from 540 ₪ to 1554 ₪ (8980 rubles - 25 850 rubles) including fees The
two-day UX Salon 2018 conference is dedicated to professional practice and additional training UIX - participants are expected not only a lot of food to the mind, but also intensive training for the successful assimilation of the material. The organizers follow a special approach to the formation of the program: they select topics in accordance with current industry trends, and then look for speakers with the appropriate expertise among well-known teams (Google, Smashing Magazine, Firefox) to make the event as balanced and informative as possible.
UXPA Boston
Where: USA, Boston, Dalton, 39
When: May 20
Conditions of participation: the price of the ticket is being specified, last year it ranged from $ 99 to $ 299, excluding fees (5,630 - 17,000 rubles). The
Seventeenth annual conference of UX specialists, which is famous, not least for its stellar the composition of the speakers. At the moment, the program is still being formed, however, given that last year among the speakers was the author of the book “Do not Make Me Think” Steve Krug and Donn Licho, who wrote “User's Journey”, it costs a lot from her.
AppDesign & DevelopmentConference
Where: Spain, Barcelona, Avinguda diagonal, 547
When: July 4-6,
Conditions of participation: from 99 € (6,720 rubles), more about prices
An international conference bringing together designers and developers who create modern iOS and Android applications. Specialists will gather to exchange experience, address problems at the intersection of development and design and dialogue, in order to achieve a better understanding of working moments. The event begins with a day dedicated entirely to workshops. The rest of the time is allotted for reports that are held in a single stream for perfect synergy, and free communication on professional topics - the organizers especially encourage networking, providing long breaks and comfortable relaxation areas. The final chord is a party on a yacht with a barbecue.
UX Week 2018
Where: USA, San Francisco, Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero Center, 5
When: August 21-24,
Participation Terms:$ 2,295 (
130,525 rubles) One of the largest UIX events of the year from Adaptive Path, UX Week 2018 brings together professionals from around the world. Within four days they will share their experience and inspiration for future work, as well as develop new tools that, according to the organizers, can be immediately incorporated into the workflow for better results.
World Usability Congress 2018
Where: Austria, Harz (address to be confirmed)
When: October 16-18,
Participation conditions: 350 € - 650 € (19 950 - 36970 rubles)
A conference designed to gain practical knowledge in the field of usability. The practical focus of the congress is multidimensional: these are real cases from leading experts, and collaborative sessions during which other participants will help you solve the problems of your project, and classes in groups with experts to consolidate new knowledge and develop skills. To enable students to easily compose a personal schedule and visit the most useful sections from an extensive and dense program, the organizers introduce a new system, making it easy to select speakers for specific thematic tags.
School of interface development Yandex
Where: Moscow, st. Lev Tolstov, 16
When: acceptance of work until January 15 - 31, 2018. The
first stage of training: from March 5 to April 22.
The second stage is from April 23 to May 27.
Participation conditions: free of charge according to the selection results
University students and novice specialists who are interested in front-end development can still have time to gain valuable knowledge from Yandex specialists. Requirements: knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS and modest experience in developing interfaces. Two stages of training are planned: lectures and practical exercises, hackathons and participation in the present Yandex project. Classes will be held three times a week. The company will pay for accommodation in non-resident students.
I. Subbotnik
Where:Nizhny Novgorod, st. Kovalikhinskaya, 8, MediaStrikeHall
When: January 20
Terms of participation: free, registration is required.
The event organizer - Yandex - will hold a clean-up on the front end, where participants will learn about the achievements of the company's specialists, the tools that the team uses daily and the tasks that it solves. A discussion is planned on automation of routine processes, ReactNative secrets, unit testing of interfaces and other topics.
The Rolling Scopes
When: February 10-11
Where: Belarus, Minsk, praspiekt Niezaliežnasci, 25, Palac kuĺtury prafsajuzaŭ
Terms of participation: from 50 rubles.
Gathering fans of the frontend in general and JavaScript in particular. In its effort to talk to the community and gather as much expertise as possible from different teams, The Rolling Scopes offers a variety of formats for participation: from standard speeches to quick reports from an audience considering particular problems or presenting an overview of tools. Among the speakers are experts from Belarus, Russia and European countries.
Jsfest 2018
When: March 30-31
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, Mercure Congress Center
Conditions of participation: $ 190 (10,746 rubles)
JavaScript specialists in particular and the front end as a whole tend to be dynamic to fit the niche itself; that is why the international community will come together to discuss the latest trends and emerging changes. It will be about the latest innovations, fresh frameworks, modern trends in reactive programming, backend and mobile development. The composition of the participants is rich in guests from Europe and the USA, as well as representatives of large Ukrainian companies.
FrontTalks (DUMP 2018)
Where: Yekaterinburg, EXPO (transfer from metro station Geologicheskaya)
When: April 13,
Conditions of participation: information is being specified; in 2017, the cost of tickets was 2,000 - 5,000 rubles.
The annual section of the DAMP 2018 conference for front-end developers. High-quality reports, extensive discussions, interesting participants - these are what distinguish FrontTalks from similar events.
HolyJS 2018 Piter
When: May 19-20
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1
Terms of participation: 20 000 rub.
JavaScript and JavaScript only, no trespassing. Those who are familiar with the event from previous years know that the development process, thanks to a narrow focus, is thoroughly understood: from architecture to paradigms, from optimization to testing and debugging, from engines to graphics. Priority is given to the front end, but the backend and desktop will also not be left without attention. Among the invited stars this year, the organizers name Douglas Crockford, Lea Verou, Azat Mardan, Gerard Sans, Minko Gechev and Vitaly Friedman.
Frontend Conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Terms of participation:16 000 rub.
Frontend Conf has a wide and detailed overview of the problems associated with the development of the client side of the project: it discusses a variety of aspects of design, usability and layout. The variety of presentation topics is distributed across five main streams: Tools (i.e. working with code, modularity, abstractions, tools), Quality (includes testing, performance, interfaces, accessibility), Applications (offline, isomorphic, specifics of web application development), Adaptation (including on mobile devices and new types of devices) and News (in browser APIs, technologies, media, graphics). Mitapas and expert consultations help participants apply expertise to their work.
pitercss_conf
Where: St. Petersburg (address to be confirmed)
When:June 8-9
Terms of participation: information to be confirmed; in 2017, the ticket price ranged from 3,500 to 7,000 rubles.
pitercss_conf - conference with a European bias: all reports are presented in English. In addition, foreign guests traditionally take part in the conference. The conference topics include the most “delicious”: from CSS to CSS in JS, from HTML to Schema, future standards, experiments, Opensource, and that's not all. There is no exact information about the conference venue and ticket price, so follow the news on Twitter and the event website.
UpFront 2018
When: March 16
Where: United Kingdom, Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
Conditions of participation: 100 £ (7,677 rubles)
Conference for "everyone who makes the web." As the experience of past years shows, one can count on a fairly high percentage of technical reports interspersed with general theoretical problems, and a friendly, creative atmosphere.
FEDC
When: April 25-27
Where: USA, St. Petersburg, The Paladium Theater
Terms of participation: from 175 $ (9,974 rubles)
FEDC is a conference with a rich, ten-year history and its own community united over the years, which gives the whole event a special relaxed atmosphere. For the anniversary, the organizers plan to invite the most charismatic and reputable Western speakers that they can only find. As always, the program will consist of 60% of the presentations, 30% of the seminars with topics relating to both web design and frontend.
Front Trends 2018
When: May 24-25
Where: Poland, Warsaw, Prądzyńskiego 12/14, EXPO XXI
Terms of participation: 262.6 € (17,901 rubles)
Speeches, free discussions, an exchange of new ideas and proven practices of the frontend await web developers and UX designers at the eighth Front Trends in Poland. The organizers are trying to maximize the number of guests and speakers with new people, offering speakers expenses and preferential conditions for specialists with special circumstances to participate.
Frontend Conference Zurich
When: August 30-31
Where: Switzerland, Zurich, Alte Papierfabrik
Conditions of participation: ticket price is specified, sale will open on April 2
The main event for front-end developers in Switzerland, well-known to guests from other European countries. To ensure a variety of approaches and a symbiosis of “design and technology”, both specialists conducting academic research and practitioners with a good portfolio and interesting cases are equally welcome here. The reports are held in two streams and are accompanied by workshops, where participants are taught a variety of things necessary in the profession - from storyboarding to public speaking skills.
Refresh 2018
When: September 7
Where: Estonia, Tallinn (address to be confirmed)
Participation conditions: 149 € (10,140 rub.)
Here the stage is also shared by product design and front-end - reports will be held in two thematic streams. Among the speakers of previous years, representatives of Dropbox, SoundCloud, Typeform, DigitalOcean and other teams of the same level appeared. Participants noted the practical applicability of the materials, the low content of “water” and the active work of the speakers with the audience.
ColdFront 2018
When: November 13-14
Where: Denmark, Copenhagen (address to be confirmed)
Participation conditions: from 4.995 DKK (45 937 rubles) A
conference with a slightly more focused topic. Participants are invited to discuss the problems of adaptability and cross-platform, to analyze the challenges that the latest technologies pose to front-end developers and designers, and to answer a sacramental question: what will interfaces expect in the future? Everyone involved in the frontend is invited to participate in the discussion - it doesn’t matter on iOS, Android or the web.
So, we have presented a list of events that, from our point of view, are worth visiting in the first place, if possible. However, for those who want to conduct a selection according to their own criteria or replenish the diary with more modest conferences, we offer the following sources:
150 design conferences from all over the world
IT events in Russia and abroad
UX events in Ukraine
Design
Russia and the CIS countries
Design weekend
Where and when:
Ulyanovsk - January 20-21
Address: ul. Of the Iron Division, 5B, “Boiling Point” co-working
Smolensk - February 23-25
Perm - March 24-25
Kirov April 28-29
Samara - April-May
(exact addresses will be announced in the VKontakte group )
Participation conditions: Free, registration is required
Design weekend is a public educational, fundamentally non-profit, project of the Russian design community. This year, a series of meetings will be held for the sixth time. The participants set as their goal the exchange of practical knowledge and experience between the capital and the regions and improving the quality of design in Russia. The event takes place in different parts of the country in the form of two-day seminars initiated by local design communities. The program of each specific visiting conference is formed freely and flexibly, depending on the interests of the community. This year, Design Weekends are announced in five cities and in each case they will cover a special range of topics that are relevant for local specialists. In Ulyanovsk, the conversation will be about design, product design, mobile applications, augmented reality, design thinking, creative practices. In Smolensk, the speakers' attention will be focused on territorial branding, urban environment, urban studies, graphic design, and illustration. Perm designers will discuss: big data visualization, services for the city, neural networks and artificial intelligence in design.
KRUPA
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, Stolichnoe highway, 103, RamadaEncoreKiev conference center
When: February 10,
Participation conditions: 3200 UAH. (6,478 rubles)
The largest Ukrainian UIX event of 2018 - the KRUPA conference - will bring together 11 speakers from 4 countries of the world and 950 listeners. Among the participants is the legendary AlanCooper from the USA. Here are some topics of reports: VR in web design, cases from the mobile life of Ukrainian e-commerce, user research for enterprise projects.
Winter Intensive Course “Service UX-Design-2”
Where: Moscow
Seminars + practice + master classes: ul. Godovikova, 9/4
Workshop "Technical Design": Mira ave., 26/1
When: Seminars + practice - February 14-16
Master classes - February 19-28
Master class "Technical Design" - March 3
Terms of participation: from 35 000 rubles. (detailed information is available on the website and at the organizers)
The course program consists of classes in three different formats: seminars, practice and master classes. The course will allow you to delve into the intricacies of the application of methods and tools in building the design of services. Emphasis will also be placed on the problems of organizing the design process and decisions on organizing an effective development process and product management.
World Information Architecture Day (WIAD 18)
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. Flower, 19, Selectel
When: February 24
Terms of participation: free, registration required
An international conference designed to foster the creation of clear, affordable and easy-to-use digital products. The global theme of 2018 is “IA forGood” - convenience, protecting users from errors, achieving mutual understanding in the digital world. The conference is being held in St. Petersburg by UX SPb, a community of UX specialists.
Chipets-3
Where: Krasnoyarsk, st. Aerovokzalnaya, 10, ICDC “Pilot”
When: March 17,
Participation conditions: from 1000 rubles.
Professional conference, consisting of two streams: design and engineering, management. The event can be interesting to project managers, developers, managers and owners of companies and, of course, to designers and planners. The event gathers participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Orel, Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Abakan. Reports will be presented on a variety of topics: from the balance between creativity and pragmatism in the development of corporate sites to managing user behavior. Conference organizers: Chipsa, D2D, Tagline. On the site you can also apply for participation as a speaker.
CodeFest 2018
Where: Novosibirsk, ul. Stantsionnaya, 104, Expocenter
When: March 31 - April 1
Terms of participation:8 800 rub. Registration will be open on February 6, the
annual largest event beyond the Urals - CodeFest 2018 - for developers, designers, testers and project managers. Speakers from 16 countries, representatives of major IT companies are expected.
ProfsoUX 18
Where: St. Petersburg, ul. 5 Lodeynopolskaya, Center "Petrokongress"
When: April 14,
Participation conditions: from 2800 rubles.
Seventh annual usability and user experience design conference. The event can be of interest to both UX specialists and designers, as well as analysts, project or product managers, developers and testers. The conference will consist of reports and workshops from representatives of leading Russian IT companies. Participants will learn how to conduct UX research on a tight budget, how to implement creative UX tasks and how to analyze their results, get acquainted with the experience of designing truly high-quality sites, applications and programs, as well as hear about effective ways to interact with the customer.
DesignThinkingCamp
Where: Moscow, Perevedenovsky Lane, 18, CTI “Factory”, p. 8, 3 et., 8-32
When: August 1-3,
Conditions of participation: 15,000 rubles.
3 days of lectures and open workshops as part of the summer camp for beginners, practitioners and experts in design thinking. Russian and foreign speakers will share with the audience valuable knowledge on the topic “Consumer insights”. Exchange of experience, useful information about what your users expect, how to create a universal design and whether it is possible, how to include a user in the design, and much more.
Foreign countries
AwwwardsConference (DigitalThinkersConf)
Where: Germany, Berlin (address to be confirmed)
When: February 7–9
Conditions of participation: 393 € - 845 € (26 726 - 57 465 rubles)
Where: USA, San Francisco (address to be confirmed)
When: 10 -May 11th
Terms of participation: $ 425 - $ 550 (24,245 - 31,375 rubles)
One of the industry's most respected conferences. The event attracts influential and powerful speakers who inspire, teach and guide professionals around the world, creating the future of web design. In 2018, DigitalThinkersConf will be held in Germany and the United States. The range of topics ranges from theoretical considerations on creativity, impostor syndrome, and debugging workflows to specific recommendations for using AR and increasing engagement. Several workshops will also be held at the Berlin venue, which will also touch upon the problems of the front-end.
UXistanbulConference 2018
Where: Turkey, Istanbul, EskiBüyükdere, MaslakBusinessCenter
When: February 20
Terms of participation: 1000 ₺ (15,200 rubles)
The fourth annual conference of Uxistanbul holds the bar for the “first UX event in Turkey”, attracting UIX specialists from world-famous companies to exchange experiences. This time the focus will be on service design. Experts will present their views on popular methodologies and practices, explain the relationship of service design with UX and outline the scope of application of the latest technologies.
UX DesignSummit
Where: USA, San Francisco, Market Street, 845
When: March 1,
Conditions of participation: $ 449 - $ 599 (25,540 - 34,070 rubles)
UX DesignSummit is a meeting place for representatives of major global companies such as Facebook, Google, Spotify. Specialists will share valuable information on how to create an unforgettable user experience. Insights and stories of famous designers will help students to open new horizons in their work.
UXinsight 2018
Where: Netherlands, Utrecht, Westkanaaldijk, 7, The Fabrique Building
When: March 7-8,
Participation Terms: 284 € - 526 € (19,280 - 35,700 rubles)
An international event that includes both sessions with reports and a series of workshops. The organizers emphasize that the event provides a wealth of material on UX research, as well as examples of real-world practices and tips for selecting tools. All reports will be presented in English.
UX Salon 2018
Where: Israel, Tel Aviv (address to be confirmed)
When: May 6-7
Terms of participation: from 540 ₪ to 1554 ₪ (8980 rubles - 25 850 rubles) including fees The
two-day UX Salon 2018 conference is dedicated to professional practice and additional training UIX - participants are expected not only a lot of food to the mind, but also intensive training for the successful assimilation of the material. The organizers follow a special approach to the formation of the program: they select topics in accordance with current industry trends, and then look for speakers with the appropriate expertise among well-known teams (Google, Smashing Magazine, Firefox) to make the event as balanced and informative as possible.
UXPA Boston
Where: USA, Boston, Dalton, 39
When: May 20
Conditions of participation: the price of the ticket is being specified, last year it ranged from $ 99 to $ 299, excluding fees (5,630 - 17,000 rubles). The
Seventeenth annual conference of UX specialists, which is famous, not least for its stellar the composition of the speakers. At the moment, the program is still being formed, however, given that last year among the speakers was the author of the book “Do not Make Me Think” Steve Krug and Donn Licho, who wrote “User's Journey”, it costs a lot from her.
AppDesign & DevelopmentConference
Where: Spain, Barcelona, Avinguda diagonal, 547
When: July 4-6,
Conditions of participation: from 99 € (6,720 rubles), more about prices
An international conference bringing together designers and developers who create modern iOS and Android applications. Specialists will gather to exchange experience, address problems at the intersection of development and design and dialogue, in order to achieve a better understanding of working moments. The event begins with a day dedicated entirely to workshops. The rest of the time is allotted for reports that are held in a single stream for perfect synergy, and free communication on professional topics - the organizers especially encourage networking, providing long breaks and comfortable relaxation areas. The final chord is a party on a yacht with a barbecue.
UX Week 2018
Where: USA, San Francisco, Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero Center, 5
When: August 21-24,
Participation Terms:$ 2,295 (
130,525 rubles) One of the largest UIX events of the year from Adaptive Path, UX Week 2018 brings together professionals from around the world. Within four days they will share their experience and inspiration for future work, as well as develop new tools that, according to the organizers, can be immediately incorporated into the workflow for better results.
World Usability Congress 2018
Where: Austria, Harz (address to be confirmed)
When: October 16-18,
Participation conditions: 350 € - 650 € (19 950 - 36970 rubles)
A conference designed to gain practical knowledge in the field of usability. The practical focus of the congress is multidimensional: these are real cases from leading experts, and collaborative sessions during which other participants will help you solve the problems of your project, and classes in groups with experts to consolidate new knowledge and develop skills. To enable students to easily compose a personal schedule and visit the most useful sections from an extensive and dense program, the organizers introduce a new system, making it easy to select speakers for specific thematic tags.
Frontend
Russia and the CIS countries
School of interface development Yandex
Where: Moscow, st. Lev Tolstov, 16
When: acceptance of work until January 15 - 31, 2018. The
first stage of training: from March 5 to April 22.
The second stage is from April 23 to May 27.
Participation conditions: free of charge according to the selection results
University students and novice specialists who are interested in front-end development can still have time to gain valuable knowledge from Yandex specialists. Requirements: knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS and modest experience in developing interfaces. Two stages of training are planned: lectures and practical exercises, hackathons and participation in the present Yandex project. Classes will be held three times a week. The company will pay for accommodation in non-resident students.
I. Subbotnik
Where:Nizhny Novgorod, st. Kovalikhinskaya, 8, MediaStrikeHall
When: January 20
Terms of participation: free, registration is required.
The event organizer - Yandex - will hold a clean-up on the front end, where participants will learn about the achievements of the company's specialists, the tools that the team uses daily and the tasks that it solves. A discussion is planned on automation of routine processes, ReactNative secrets, unit testing of interfaces and other topics.
The Rolling Scopes
When: February 10-11
Where: Belarus, Minsk, praspiekt Niezaliežnasci, 25, Palac kuĺtury prafsajuzaŭ
Terms of participation: from 50 rubles.
Gathering fans of the frontend in general and JavaScript in particular. In its effort to talk to the community and gather as much expertise as possible from different teams, The Rolling Scopes offers a variety of formats for participation: from standard speeches to quick reports from an audience considering particular problems or presenting an overview of tools. Among the speakers are experts from Belarus, Russia and European countries.
Jsfest 2018
When: March 30-31
Where: Ukraine, Kiev, st. Vadim Getman, 6, Mercure Congress Center
Conditions of participation: $ 190 (10,746 rubles)
JavaScript specialists in particular and the front end as a whole tend to be dynamic to fit the niche itself; that is why the international community will come together to discuss the latest trends and emerging changes. It will be about the latest innovations, fresh frameworks, modern trends in reactive programming, backend and mobile development. The composition of the participants is rich in guests from Europe and the USA, as well as representatives of large Ukrainian companies.
FrontTalks (DUMP 2018)
Where: Yekaterinburg, EXPO (transfer from metro station Geologicheskaya)
When: April 13,
Conditions of participation: information is being specified; in 2017, the cost of tickets was 2,000 - 5,000 rubles.
The annual section of the DAMP 2018 conference for front-end developers. High-quality reports, extensive discussions, interesting participants - these are what distinguish FrontTalks from similar events.
HolyJS 2018 Piter
When: May 19-20
Where: St. Petersburg, pl. Victory, 1
Terms of participation: 20 000 rub.
JavaScript and JavaScript only, no trespassing. Those who are familiar with the event from previous years know that the development process, thanks to a narrow focus, is thoroughly understood: from architecture to paradigms, from optimization to testing and debugging, from engines to graphics. Priority is given to the front end, but the backend and desktop will also not be left without attention. Among the invited stars this year, the organizers name Douglas Crockford, Lea Verou, Azat Mardan, Gerard Sans, Minko Gechev and Vitaly Friedman.
Frontend Conf
When: May 28-29
Where: Skolkovo, st. New, 100
Terms of participation:16 000 rub.
Frontend Conf has a wide and detailed overview of the problems associated with the development of the client side of the project: it discusses a variety of aspects of design, usability and layout. The variety of presentation topics is distributed across five main streams: Tools (i.e. working with code, modularity, abstractions, tools), Quality (includes testing, performance, interfaces, accessibility), Applications (offline, isomorphic, specifics of web application development), Adaptation (including on mobile devices and new types of devices) and News (in browser APIs, technologies, media, graphics). Mitapas and expert consultations help participants apply expertise to their work.
pitercss_conf
Where: St. Petersburg (address to be confirmed)
When:June 8-9
Terms of participation: information to be confirmed; in 2017, the ticket price ranged from 3,500 to 7,000 rubles.
pitercss_conf - conference with a European bias: all reports are presented in English. In addition, foreign guests traditionally take part in the conference. The conference topics include the most “delicious”: from CSS to CSS in JS, from HTML to Schema, future standards, experiments, Opensource, and that's not all. There is no exact information about the conference venue and ticket price, so follow the news on Twitter and the event website.
Foreign countries
UpFront 2018
When: March 16
Where: United Kingdom, Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
Conditions of participation: 100 £ (7,677 rubles)
Conference for "everyone who makes the web." As the experience of past years shows, one can count on a fairly high percentage of technical reports interspersed with general theoretical problems, and a friendly, creative atmosphere.
FEDC
When: April 25-27
Where: USA, St. Petersburg, The Paladium Theater
Terms of participation: from 175 $ (9,974 rubles)
FEDC is a conference with a rich, ten-year history and its own community united over the years, which gives the whole event a special relaxed atmosphere. For the anniversary, the organizers plan to invite the most charismatic and reputable Western speakers that they can only find. As always, the program will consist of 60% of the presentations, 30% of the seminars with topics relating to both web design and frontend.
Front Trends 2018
When: May 24-25
Where: Poland, Warsaw, Prądzyńskiego 12/14, EXPO XXI
Terms of participation: 262.6 € (17,901 rubles)
Speeches, free discussions, an exchange of new ideas and proven practices of the frontend await web developers and UX designers at the eighth Front Trends in Poland. The organizers are trying to maximize the number of guests and speakers with new people, offering speakers expenses and preferential conditions for specialists with special circumstances to participate.
Frontend Conference Zurich
When: August 30-31
Where: Switzerland, Zurich, Alte Papierfabrik
Conditions of participation: ticket price is specified, sale will open on April 2
The main event for front-end developers in Switzerland, well-known to guests from other European countries. To ensure a variety of approaches and a symbiosis of “design and technology”, both specialists conducting academic research and practitioners with a good portfolio and interesting cases are equally welcome here. The reports are held in two streams and are accompanied by workshops, where participants are taught a variety of things necessary in the profession - from storyboarding to public speaking skills.
Refresh 2018
When: September 7
Where: Estonia, Tallinn (address to be confirmed)
Participation conditions: 149 € (10,140 rub.)
Here the stage is also shared by product design and front-end - reports will be held in two thematic streams. Among the speakers of previous years, representatives of Dropbox, SoundCloud, Typeform, DigitalOcean and other teams of the same level appeared. Participants noted the practical applicability of the materials, the low content of “water” and the active work of the speakers with the audience.
ColdFront 2018
When: November 13-14
Where: Denmark, Copenhagen (address to be confirmed)
Participation conditions: from 4.995 DKK (45 937 rubles) A
conference with a slightly more focused topic. Participants are invited to discuss the problems of adaptability and cross-platform, to analyze the challenges that the latest technologies pose to front-end developers and designers, and to answer a sacramental question: what will interfaces expect in the future? Everyone involved in the frontend is invited to participate in the discussion - it doesn’t matter on iOS, Android or the web.
So, we have presented a list of events that, from our point of view, are worth visiting in the first place, if possible. However, for those who want to conduct a selection according to their own criteria or replenish the diary with more modest conferences, we offer the following sources:
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