December 11, 2013 / becca shayne

my notes from An Event Apart 2013

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I had the wonderful fortune this year to attend An Event Apart this year. An Event Apart is, if you don’t know, A Design Conference for People Who Make Websites. Two days of talks, then an all-day workshop with Luke Wroblewski. These are the kings, queens, and pioneers of mobile and responsive web design, of design as function not appearance.

The irony is not lost on me that I took notes for a web design conference on paper. Since I haven’t made my blog responsive yet (… I will eventually), you can click the images of my sketchbook to make them bigger.

Jeffrey Zeldman signed my notebook! I finally got to meet him, Luke Wroblewski, and Ethan Marcotte, and some of the other RWD/mobile faces in person. Luke even remembered that he’d met me once before, at another one of his talks.

wonderful meeting you again today @lukew. thanks for a brilliant workshop. #AEASF http://t.co/m421Su5WcO
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Becca Shayne (@bec) December 12, 2013

And then some highlights from the #AEASF feed of people live-tweeting the conference.

“Design is not just how something looks, feels, works. It’s how it affects a person, a class of people, the environment we live in.” #aeasf
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Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) December 10, 2013

what works, works @beep #AEASF http://t.co/ktOsIg0bwL
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Becca Shayne (@bec) December 10, 2013

“Web-site creation isn’t something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.” - Jeff Veen via @timbrown #aeasf
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Samantha Warren (@samanthatoy) December 09, 2013

“If you want to improve the world, you need first-hand knowledge of the world you want to improve.” #research #aeasf @mulegirl
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Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) December 10, 2013