Burton Smith
Technical Lead at Microsoft
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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I am a technical lead at Microsoft working with design systems and web components.
I am also the creator of various open-source projects like Kickstand UI (a design system built with web components - kickstand-ui.com) and Clarion (a style framework for managing design systems - projectclarion.com).
In my free time, I love spending time with my wife and three daughters, practicing martial arts, jamming on my ukulele, and learning new things (usually about software engineering).
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Using Web Components to Scale Your UX
Whether you're a company with a variety of projects or an app that uses micro-front-end architecture, creating a consistent and reliable user experience can be time consuming and difficult.
In this session, we will discuss how, at Microsoft, we have leveraged web components to standardize our user experiences across multiple platforms and improve developer efficiency.
Attendees will leave this session with knowledge about web components and how they can be used to create framework agnostic user experiences.
Building a Web Component Library
Web components have been around for a long time (since HTML 5 became a thing), but there hasn’t been a lot of attention given to them until recently. Now, tech organizations worldwide are adopting them and finding tremendous efficiency in creating framework-agnostic reusable components to build their Design System component libraries and applications.
In this workshop, we will learn about the important concepts around authoring web components as well as the technologies used to create, test, and distribute web component libraries for others to enjoy.
Can Web Components Replace Our JavaScript Frameworks?
Web components haven't had a lot of love since their inception. Now, with improved browser support, composition tools, and the increasing need for framework-agnostic components, teams are starting to give them a second look. Find out what web components are capable of and how they can add value to your applications.
Building a Design system
Design systems have been generating a lot of hype lately and rightfully so! They can provide better user experiences, promote best practices, and help you develop products faster. But, before you open your favorite design tool or code editor to start throwing things together, there are some things you need to identify and document to prevent issues.
5 Questions to Get You Started With UX
If you are building something (website, API, developer tools, etc.), you are creating a UX (user experience). How do you make that a good user experience?
In this session, we will discuss 5 questions you can use as a framework to put you on the path to creating products your users will love.
Using Web Components Like a Boss
Web components are becoming increasingly popular - especially in enterprise environments. Teams have been migrating their design systems to them to increase their reach and scalability.
So you created an amazing web component library for everyone to use. Now what?
In this session, we discuss what you need to get your web components to your users. We will also discuss how you can provide a great developer experience for your users that is similar to or better than components built using their existing environment including autocomplete, documentation, and validation.
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Burton Smith
Technical Lead at Microsoft
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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