Hey! Presents · Talks

Functional Programming in JavaScript

Take your skills to the moon with creative coding

Design Systems - The Monster We Created

Building Beautiful Web Apps: User experience and visual design best practices for PWAs

Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager

Levelling Up by Teaching Others

How I Decided What I Want to Do With My Life

PWAs in 2021

Unlocking SVG’s Superpowers

Pushing the Envelope of Email

An Opinionated Guide to Web Performance Budgets

Breaking Out of Media Queries

How to Make Grand Theft Auto Using CSS

Why The Cyber Security Industry Needs to Hire More Anthropologists

Empathy at work

Getting into technology: It's never too late

Pixels, IRL

Principles of Green Application Architecture Design

Smart Interface Design Patterns

Serverless at the End of the Universe

What Is the Deal With Internationalisation?

Learning doesn't stop: Scott Perry Magic

Learning doesn't stop: Northcoders

Learning doesn't stop: MacComms

Learning doesn't stop: EatFishDesign

Learning doesn't stop: Leeds Digital Drinks

Working in Digital at an Agency

Mental health - why how we work is as important as the work we do

Agile ADHD - how Scrum (kind of) saved my husband's life

From Musician to Account Director

From Anthropologist to Software Developer

From Chef to Entrepreneur Engagement Manager

From Midwifery to Project Management

Using a Modern Web to Recreate 1980s Horribly Slow and Loud Loading Screens

SVGs beyond mere shapes

Making Less of the Web with Feature Policy

Creating a Culture of Empathy

The Long-Tail of Performance

Future of Animation

Static site generators are here to stay (and what Netlify is doing to help)

#fthefunnel: How advertising forgot the role of brand in building business

Fake it til’ you break it

CSS — Past, Present, and Future

What is the Web without the Browser?

Building Resilient Frontend Systems

Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout

In the Loop

Idea to Execution, and Beyond

Failure is an option by Arianne

Failure is an option by Xuefei

Failure is an option by Sommer

Failure is an option by Kimberley

Failure is an option by Gintare

Failure is an option by Christina

Everyone needs a strategy

What IP? Whose IP?

Web matters

The evolution of Google Organic Search

On searching for purpose

I can't teach you to be a writer

Making the game

Leeds. My Hollywood on a budget.

How to change the world with your career (and why I chose tech)

Our eternal (digital) afterlife

The first meaningful paint

How To Be A Web A/V Artist

Evaluating Technology

Can't you make it more like bootstrap

Functional JavaScript, in a nutshell

It all started with an anchor tag

Developers of habit

Design your own career

Newspapers, Brexit and how I missed the story of the decade but found freedom after 17 years in print

Modern Mindfulness

Creating a place for Tech in Leeds

The story of Ox Club

Building an independent coffee roasting company

From Leeds to Silicon Valley

The life of a travelling CSS Architect

Replacing the big NHS computer

How To Break Through In The Creative Industries

Oh, you wanted to increment a counter? Good luck with that!

Engineering yourself

Do you need a formal education to work in Digital?

Sweet Imposition: How to run a developer team

Passion, purpose and values within the creative industries

Surviving the beast

Staring at rectangles : The good, the bad and the selfie

Building a city-wide media platform

Using data to build a smarter city

Telling stories with data

Enough to go full time?

What is Leeds SOUP?

Advice from an Account Manager

A pint with the pub landlord

Kickstarting a city-wide food festival

Designing systems that scale - the other developer

Ember: When the lights go on

Single Page Applications - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

There and back again - Imposter Syndrome

Anti-Glacial Education

How do you teach something that people can’t even agree what it’s called?

Bootstrapping a team of developers

Let's Build a Virtual Machine!

What's next for YorkshireDigital?

The business value of open source

Digital Marketing for the music industry

Deadlines and side projects

Hey!Stac refreshed

A journey through big data

...and why that's not important.

Agile design

Trials and tribulations of running a web design business

How psychology can influence design choices

Top 10 distributed storage systems

What is YorkshireDigital?

Running events for the web industry

Reducing complexity

Growing a start-up

Managing a mind

Changing the way we think about conferences

Advanced Compass and SASS techniques

Don't trust your network

The importance of side projects

Our role in education

Kick the Photoshop habit in modern web design processes

Thinking for yourself in an industry of trends

Structured data

Flux & flexibility

Getting inspired by the Blues Brothers

Growing, managing and surviving with a team of developers

How to discover your inner superhero

The story so far

Basics of cryptography.

How I went freelance

The itch

Life behind the curve

Burn after coding

Node.js and Quadcopters - what could go wrong?

CSS - You've been doing it wrong