Mandy Michael
Staff Software Engineer at Hireup Australia, Speaker, Mentor, Front End Developer, GDE, Microsoft Regional Director
Perth, Australia
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Mandy is a multiple award-winning Front End Developer, previously Engineering Manager for the news organisation Seven West Media in Western Australia, she now works as a Staff Software Engineer at Hireup. She speaks at conferences and events locally and internationally sharing her work and experiments with new and old technology.
Mandy is an avid supporter of local communities and a strong advocate for women in technology, volunteering at events across Australia. She is the Founder and Organiser of Fenders a local Perth meetup for Front End Developers, previously Director of Mixin Conf, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Microsoft Regional Director and in its inaugural year, in 2018, was named one of the Top 20 Women in Tech in Western Australia.
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Creative Text Effects with CSS
Interesting and impactful text is often deemed a “print only option”. But we can have those effects now in our web projects with real web text.
I'll show you how to recreate photoshop effects and bring your own text effects to life all while maintaining accessible, searchable, and selectable text using CSS and HTML.
We’ll explore a variety of techniques combining old and new CSS properties and values including pseudo-elements, clip-path, blend modes, gradients, transforms, variable fonts and more to create interesting and inspiring headings and layouts.
It's never been a better time to stand out and experiment with the power of CSS.
Variable Fonts and Responsive Typography
Variable Fonts allow typography on the web to adapt to the flexible nature of screens, environments and devices.
We can use variable fonts with pre-existing technologies to improve the performance, design, accessibility and usability of our websites. We can start to design our typography to adjust to various inputs, situations or events using Media Queries, JS events and the Sensor or Audio Apis. This will allow us to modify our fonts to aid in storytelling, achieve improved readability and legibility in different situations, environments or on larger or smaller screens.
Let’s explore new and exciting creative opportunities for storytelling, design and expression in ways standard fonts could never provide us. This is just the beginning of our journey to discover what we can do with variable fonts.
Fun with JavaScript and Sensor APIs
As of right now, there are many great Sensor & Browser APIs — like Light Sensors, Orientation, Speech Recognition and more — that you can use to attune your website to the users’ device, environment or input. And guess what? They’re available in more devices than you’d think, making them more accessible than ever.
Whether you’re after something as practical as a dimmable website based on a camera light sensor, or something as universally useful as abducting a cat with speech recognition, orientation and light, chances are, it’s 100% achievable. Let’s look at some simple code demos, explore some outlandish possibilities, and dig up the tools and resources needed to create engaging and creative sensory experiences.
Controlling, designing and improving text on the web
Text content forms the foundation of everything we do on the web, it doesn’t matter if you are building an admin system, a marketing website, or a product, you will have to work with text. CSS and font specifications have evolved, so whether you are scaling, wrapping, responding or designing something to make an impact, there are many practical, responsible and fun solutions for working with text based content on the web.
We’ll look at modern approaches and technical solutions for working with text, including variable fonts, css text tricks and features for the serious or party side of your projects. You’ll learn techniques that will help you build flexible and maintainable content right now and explore some of the exciting developments to look out for in the future.
Advanced HTML for Performance & Accessibility
HTML is not just the foundation we build on, it's vital in making our websites accessible, usable and performant.
We'll explore how we can make the most of our HTML elements and attributes to improve the performance and accessibility of our website and applications as well as boosting the efficiency of our development process.
All by using a technology we are already use day to day, but just using it better than we were before. At the end of the talk you'll be able to make things more useful and useable, not just for performance and accessibility but for our users and different technologies as well.
Mandy Michael
Staff Software Engineer at Hireup Australia, Speaker, Mentor, Front End Developer, GDE, Microsoft Regional Director
Perth, Australia
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