InControl Conference Blog
Catch the latest buzz leading up to the conference here, or #inctrlconf, or browse our blog from our 2014 conference below!
Where are we now, and from where have we come?
February 4, 2014 | 9:05 a.m. - Elliot Jay Stocks
Flash turned the web from a bland mess into a rich, interactive playground. Web Standards brought the web a much-needed sense of unity, clarity, and accessibility. Web fonts gave the web print-level typographic control. Responsive Web Design returned the web to its roots as an inherently fluid medium...
Responsive Web Design is Hard/Easy! Be Afraid/Don't Worry!
February 3, 2014 | 10:00 a.m. - Dan Mall
Things sure have changed! In a multi-device world where waterfall methodologies and full page comps don’t cut it anymore, how are we expected to know how to build modern, responsive websites when everything we seems to be wrong? Fear not: they will share a few stories about how to...
Deliberate Performance
February 2, 2014 | 11:15 a.m. - Tim Kadlec
No one wants to create a slow site. Yet that's exactly what happens. Not only do fat sites exist, they're actually becoming more and more common. It would be one thing if performance was merely another feature, but the reality is that performance is a fundamental component of the user experience...
Why We Do What We Do
February 1, 2014 | 12:02 p.m. - Dan Rubin
Motivation — it isn't just a question of what gets us out of bed each morning, makes us work harder on some days than others, helps us quit our jobs or rewrite our lives so we may follow our hearts; from money to passion, our motives influence how and why we...
The Most Important Part Of Your Job
February 1, 2014 | 8:03 a.m. - Inayaili de León Persson
As designers, we pride ourselves on being great communicators. We go to extreme lengths to communicate with users in a language they understand, enabling them to engage with our messages and feel like they’re part of a story we built just for them. We take great satisfaction from putting ourselves in the...