Building Layouts with CSS Grid and Form UX: Design & coding a user-friendly form

Our second meetup of the year has a design feel to it with Michele Barker talking about CSS Grid and Liam Jay talking about form UX.

** NEW VENUE **
Please note this month we are moving to a new venue, and will be at Runway East. Please see the location details below. If you have any questions please contact us on any of our social media channels or add a comment here.

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1. Building Challenging Layouts with CSS Grid
👩 Michelle Baker

Skill level: Beginner, Intermediate

When it comes to crafting layouts on the web, CSS Grid is more powerful than anything we’ve had available to us before. In this talk I’ll walk through an example of harnessing the power of Grid to build complex, responsive, two-dimensional components, and demonstrate how we can use CSS variables to keep our Grid code DRY, reusable and maintainable.

About Michelle Baker

Michelle is a front end developer with a passion for CSS and a background in design, illustration and events management. By day she builds UX-driven experiences for Ordoo, a mobile ordering startup. She is a prolific writer on her blog, CSS {In Real Life}, and has authored articles for several other publications, including CSS Tricks, Smashing Magazine and the Pastry Box Project, to name a few.

@mbarker_84

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2. Form UX: How to design & code a user-friendly form
👨 Liam Jay

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Forms aren't normally hip and trendy aspects of web design, but almost every website has them, so getting them right is crucial. A form with great UX is easy for your visitors to work though, simple to understand, and looks professional.

My talk will cover how to design and code a great looking form that's accessible and easy to use.

About Liam Jay

Designer / Front-End Developer at Love Creative UK. Plays too much badminton.

@liamjay66

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*If you find you can no longer make this meeting please do change your RSVP. As we provide food for these events it is helpful for us to know what number to cater for and of course to ensure that the waitlist is kept as short as possible. Thanks.

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Please arrive from ⌚ 6.30pm. You will be greeted by our friendly and knowledgeable volunteers who will help you get your name badge and get settled in. We aim to start the talks at around ⌚ 7pm so there's plenty of time to meet our other members, get a drink 🍻 and have a graze from the buffet 🍕 we provide thanks to our generous sponsors.

We usually start the night off with some updates about what's happening in the local and national WordPress community and members are welcome to add their own updates. Speak to one of the organisers wearing a red name badge before we start if you'd like to say or ask something.

After the first talk we take a break and then have our second talk. Following that if you want to stick around a few of us usually hang around for another drink and chat. The talks usually finish around ⌚ 9.15pm (ish).