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A Web Directions event Respond 2016 Australia's Responsive Web Design Conference

Creating the modern Web is more than just code

Creating experiences that work, and engage, on everything from watches to wall-sized TVs presents unique challenges to designers, developers, product managers, creative and art directors.

Real World Knowledge

Now in its third year, and curated by John Allsopp, cited by Ethan Marcotte as one of the originators of Responsive design, Respond goes beyond the technology, to address the myriad challenges we face in delivering modern, responsive Web experiences.

Featuring a mix of renowned international and local speakers, including the founder of Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte, Respond is one of the World's leading events for the Web industry.

• 300 Passionate attendees
• 20 Transformational speakers
• 2 Huge days

Big Ideas

Start and end each day with inspiring talks from our industry's leading minds.

Design Beyond Our Devices

Ethan Marcotte Mr. Responsive

In this age of device diversity, we’ve been focusing less on pages, and more on patterns: reusable bits of design and content we stitch together into responsive design systems. Read More

SVG + CSS: A Designer's delight

Sara Soueidan SVG Guru

You've probably been using CSS since you began your journey in Web design, and perhaps now you use SVG a little, or a lot. But together they add up to much more than the sum of the parts. Read More

Plus in-depth sessions from

Modern CSS Layouts

Jen Simmons The Web Ahead

With new CSS properties for layout landing in browsers, we may be about to see a bigger renaissance in layout design patterns. So, how can we better use the space inside the glass rectangle?

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Adaptive Content, Context, and Controversy

Karen McGrane UX, Content

In this talk, Karen shares her perspective (and reservations) on how adaptive content is being used today. She’ll discuss how adaptive content supports targeting content to device type—and why that’s rarely necessary.

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Beyond Responsive

Aaron Gustafson Author, "Adaptive Web Design"

Responsive web design has taken our industry by storm and with good reason: it helps us improve our reach with less effort. But incorporating responsive design is not the goal, meeting our users’ needs is. Responsive design is not an end in itself… it’s just the beginning.

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accessible web components without tears

Russ Weakley Web Design Pioneer

So, you've built an amazing new web application. It uses all the latest frameworks and libraries. It's beautiful to behold.

But is it accessible?.

Read More

With more local and international speakers to be announced shortly.

Masterclass

Join Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane for their world renowned Responsive Web workshop.

Responsive Web Design: Content, Code, and Collaboration

with Karen McGrane & Ethan Marcotte

Ready for responsive? It’s not just about layout anymore: a responsive redesign will uncover challenges with your current design, development, and publishing processes. Whether you’re just starting out or already in the thick of things, we can help you make the move to mobile and beyond.

Ethan coined the term “responsive web design” and his popular book on responsive design has been widely praised. Karen advocates for truly device-independent content in her book Content Strategy for Mobile. Together, they will help you understand the full scope of what’s involved in making a responsive project go smoothly.

• Full Masterclass Details
• Register Sydney
• Register Melbourne

From $349 for conference attendees, $699 workshop-only

Sydney

• 9am–5pm, Wednesday April 6th
• Darling Harbour

Melbourne

• 9am–5pm, Wednesday April 13th
• Southbank

Melbourne

Respond 2016 will be held in the ANZ Pavilion at the iconic Arts Centre Melbourne, right on the Yarra in Southbank.

ANZ Pavilion,

Arts Centre Melbourne,

100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Getting there:

With excellent public transport connections right outside, and Flinders Street Station right across the bridge, it's our best connected location yet.

Accommodation:

We've lined up a fantastic rate of 10% off the right-next-door Mantra Southbank's best rate. Use the code webdirections when you book at the Mantra's site.

Check out Wotif and Airbnb as well

Social:

Attending our events is a whole lot more than what happens from 9–5, and Melbourne has countless great places to grab a drink or a meal at any hour of the night or day. Here's some of our favourite close by places.

Sydney

Respond 2016 Sydney will be held at the National Maritime Museum, in Daring Harbour.

• Maritime Museum,
• 2 Murray St,
• Sydney, NSW

Getting there:

The Museum is a very pleasant 10 minute walk from Town Hall Station, or right across the road from the Pyrmont Bay light Rail stop. Darling Harbour is also services by many Ferries and Busses.

Accommodation:

Darling Harbour and surrounds has many accomodation options, from budget to 5 star.

Check out Wotif and Airbnb as well

Social:

Attending our events is a whole lot more than what happens from 9–5, and Sydney has countless great places to grab a drink or a meal at any hour of the night or day.

Find the right ticket for you

Gold Pass

• conference

• speaker dinner

• workshop

• $1,599 Until Feb 26
• $1,699 Until March 18
• $1,799 Walk up price

• Register Now

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  • Melbourne

Silver Pass

• conference

• speaker dinner

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• $1,199 Until Feb 26
• $1,299 Until March 18
• $1,399 Walk up price

• Register Now

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  • Melbourne

Classic Pass

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• $999 Until Feb 26
• $1,099 Until March 18
• $1,199 Walk up price

• Register Now

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  • Melbourne

Speaker Dinner

Join our speakers at a nearby restaurant for a relaxing meal, and engaging company.

Conference

• 2 day conference
• Opening night reception
• Closing night Drinks
• Awesome conference coffee
• Refreshing fresh juice bar
• Sensational catered lunches and breaks

Workshop

• All day workshop
• Catered lunches and breaks

Videos

• All past videos of conferences by Web Directions

• All past videos of Web Directions Respond

• Respond 2016 Conference videos

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Find the conference pass for you

Gold Pass

• Conference

• Speaker Dinner

• Workshop

• $1,599 Until Feb 26
• $1,699 Until March 18
• $1,799 Walkup

Register Sydney Register Melbourne

Silver Pass

• Conference

• Speaker Dinner

• $1,199 Until Feb 26
• $1,299 Until March 18
• $1,399 Walkup

Register Sydney Register Melbourne

Classic Pass

• Conference

• $999 Until Feb 26
• $1,099 Until March 18
• $1,199 Walkup

Register Sydney Register Melbourne

Learn together

Teams get more

Sending a team of 5 or more to Respond 16 is even more rewarding. For the price of a classic ticket per team member, you'll get:

• A Silver pass for each attendee
• An invitation for each team member to our speaker dinner
• A paperback library of Ethan Marcotte's and Karen McGrane's four A Book Apart books on responsive design, including the brand new "Going Responsive" and "Responsive Design, Pattern's and Principles"
• A team license to all the past conference videos, as well as videos from Respond 2016.

Just use the code team when you register your folks for a silver ticket.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Henry David Thoreau

We know you are busy

Creating and managing a great team, exploring the creative limits of today's technology, and tomorrow's. We know your life is full to the brim with meetings you can't miss.

What we'll deliver is ROT (return on your time). We'll help you save time avoiding rabbit holes of hype that doesn't match reality. We'll help you invest your time wisely in the technologies, ideas and projects that will deliver for your company, clients and partners.

Praise for past Web Directions events

Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.

Phil Whitehouse, General Manager, DT Sydney

I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!

Ethan Marcotte, inventor of "responsive Web design"

Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite

Dave Greiner, founder, Campaign Monitor

About Us

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for over a decade brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

In 2016, we'll be organising Respond in Sydney and Melbourne, Transform in Canberra, Code in Sydney and Melbourne, and Direction in Sydney.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has been working on the Web for over 20 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.

His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.

His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's rightly acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

Code of Conduct

For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.

As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.

If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.