Building a Better Competence Environment: Focusing on Collaboration and Innovation en

This session is the result of my reflections on how to transform a struggling competence environment into a market-leading one. I believe that the connection between collaboration, culture-building, and an innovation/product-oriented perspective can provide a structured path forward.

Trusted Data for developers - or, how to start the apocalypse en

Hey you. Yes, YOU! The developer reading this summary. Are you ready to summon the four horsemen and start the apocalypse? Start the next nuclear disaster? Kill patients? Make banks bankrupt? Do I have your attention now? Yes? Good. Because everything is going to go to hell if you don't get your act together!

Hvordan bør man drive fagarbeid i en liten tue i et stort konsern? en

Dette er en kombinasjon av råd og rant på hva man kan eller ikke kan gjøre når man driver fagarbeid! Jeg loser deg igjennom mine erfaringer på hva som fungerer, og ikke fungerer. Jeg vil også komme med gode eksempler å gjøre ting på, og kanskje samtidig overbevise DEG om at dette er en god måte å gjøre ting på!

Make your application secure, with minimal effort! en no

I will show you tips and tricks on how you can make YOUR webapp more secure. It takes minimal effort, and it is very easy!

This is a semi frontend channeled talk, but the message is fully translatable into backend

A bleak future with AI? What the science fiction-scene has warned us against! en

I address grim predictions and outcomes that the science fiction-scene has shown us for decades, with examples from movies and books of what can happen if AI runs amok!

What can we do to make Open Source more sustainable? en

Open Source projects are more and more often victims of their own success. Those responsible for the packages end up spending thousands of hours a year maintaining and supporting packages that have somehow gotten into the global infrastructure we use to build our products and services.

Absolutely free, and usually only with outrage as the open source world's salary. It is not sustainable. Not in the long run.
This is a massive challenge, across both companies and national borders. We as developers are definitely in a position where we can contribute, but what is really the right way to do it? How can we ensure the Open Source culture with contributions? How can we make it sustainable? These are questions I will try to answer!

From nothing to state of the art, how we build design systems, for all! en

tl; dr; A talk on how we build / built a design system, with focus on technical distribution, a11y and documentation.

This talk deals with how we build design systems at the current client, and how we got to where we are now.

We look at the needs of all types of personas / consumers of the design system and how a design system helps with development, a11y, business knowledge and content. Are you a content manager or a developer? A design system is both for you and for the end user!

The technical perspective of communicating design with a design system en

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Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and UX-designer, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled with both design and code. Up until recent years, the design communication has gone one way, from the designers to the developers.

This talk covers the process I came up with on securing design/develop communication both ways when building a design system. We will cover generation of preprocessor styles with design tokens, generating sketchfiles with for the designers and how we generate our design systems continuously.

I will also cover the importance of a design system and on how we make sure the documentation is clear, understandable and how we emphasize the end user AND the user of the design system. With weight on accessibility for the end user, how we create documentation examples and the technical aspects tied into the design system.

Future Interfaces - What the syfy-scene promised us, and how far are we? en

This is a small talk about how we imagined the future interface would be in fiction, visions of the future and in films about the future. What have we been promised and how far have we come?

Has 20 years of experience lead to this?! en

tl;dr; A talk/rant/beer in hand talk about my experience with frontend, from the 90s to today

For over 24 years I have played, enjoyed and gotten grey hairs doing frontend. I share my experiences around this, all the good and bad stuff.

This talk is also to summarize where we come from within frontend development, and where we are heading. So if you are into some frontend nostalgia, this talk is for you

Fix your god damned typography! en

This talk will demonstrate the pains a developer have with the designer when the developer implements typography design.

Ever wondered why the distance between a title and the text says 30px in the sketch, but it won't line up with your html and css? Well, this talk will make you understand why, and how to fix this :)

First publicly presented at Booster Conference 2023 in Bergen, Norway

How we built design systems at If en

Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and UX-designers, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled with both design and code.

Until recently, communication has gone one way, from the designers to the developers. This talk covers the process that we developed to ensure that the conversation around a design system runs in both directions, between design and development.

Enabling developers and designers to speak the same language en

Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and
UX-designers, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled
with both design and code.

Up until recent years, the design communication has gone one way, from the
designers to the developers. This talk covers the process I came up with on
securing design/develop communication both ways when building a design system.

Design sketch and front-end implementation, where does it blow up? en no

A lecture that deals with the common pitfalls, and how to get out of them, when communicating between developers and designers

Designskisse og frontendimplementering, hvor skjærer det seg? en no

Et foredrag som omhandler det vanlige fallgruvene, og hvordan komme seg ut av dem, når man kommuniserer mellom utviklere og designere

A better frontend developer experience? en

tl;dr; A talk about how to improve your frontend developer experience based on my 24+ years of experience within the field. YMMV.

I will share with you what makes my frontend developer experience great, based on my a life time of trial and error. I will show you practical tips and tricks, dos and don'ts and hopefully a way for you to improve your frontend developer experience.

I will cover the importance of standards, why you should embrace automation, how you use your code to extrapolate things from and why you should care to minimize code.

This talks is for everyone that codes with frontend, and most of it could be used for your backend experience as well. Hope to see you there!

Gjør applikasjon sikker, med enkle grep! en no

Jeg kommer til å vise tips og triks på hvordan du kan gjøre din webapp sikrere. Det er ikke mye som skal til!