Stuff & Nonsense product and website design

Conference speaker

Would you like to inspire your audience with how to make better work for the web? I’m available to speak in 2026.

I’ve presented about art direction and digital design to over 25,000 web professionals since 2005. I’ve given over 85 talks at conferences on almost every continent and have delivered design masterclasses to hundreds of professional designers. I’ve spoken to audiences at these conferences and dozens more:

  • An Event Apart
  • Beyond Tellerrand
  • Smashing Conference
  • SXSW
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Sorry, for political reasons, I’m unwilling to speak in Israel or the United States.

Upcoming events

Design It. Build It.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Web design inspiration from retro wresting

Webinale

Berlin, Germany

The designer’s scrapbook: Rethinking AI as a creative tool

Previous talks

  1. Design It. Build It.

    • Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Art Direction for the Web

  2. Genesys Tech

    • Lagos, Nigeria (online)
    • Art Direction for the Web

  3. Contao Conference

    • Duisburg, Germany
    • Art Direction for the Web

  4. State of the Browser

    • London, UK
    • Art Direction for the Web

  5. Web Teaching Day

    • Manchester, UK
    • Art Direction for the Web

  6. Webinale

    • Berlin, Germany
    • Art Direction for the Web

  7. SydCSS

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Art Direction for the Web (book preview)

  8. Talk.CSS

    • Singapore
    • Designing Inspired Style Guides
    • Media Media

  9. SydCSS

    • Sydney, Australia
    • CSS Custom Properties for Inspired Style Guides
    • Media

  10. UX Australia

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Designing Inspired Style Guides
    • Media Media

  11. YOW West

    • Perth, Australia
    • Designing Inspired Style Guides
    • Media Media

  12. Directions

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Art Direction for the Web
    • Media Media

  13. Mixin

    • Perth, Australia
    • Art Direction for the Web
    • Media Media

  14. Frontend Conf

    • Zurich, Switzerland
    • Art Direction for the Web
    • Media Media

  15. Talk Web Design

    • Greenwich, UK
    • Imaginative grid systems
    • Media

  16. Port 80

    • Newport, UK
    • Imaginative grid systems
    • Media

  17. Design Exchange

    • Nottingham, UK
    • Imaginative grid systems
    • Media

  18. MK Geek Mental Help Night

    • Milton Keynes, UK
    • Don Draper's depersonalisation disorder

  19. Smashing Conference

    • Barcelona, Spain
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity
    • Media

  20. Shropgeek (R)Evolution

    • Shrewsbury, UK
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity

  21. Smashing Conference

    • New York, USA
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity
    • Media

  22. Smashing Conference

    • Santa Monica, USA
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity
    • Media

  23. SydCSS

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Take your stinking paws off my design you damn dirty developers
    • Media Media

  24. Respond

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity
    • Media

  25. Reasons to be Creative

    • London, UK
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity

  26. UX Brighton

    • Brighton, UK
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity

  27. Beyond Tellerrand

    • Berlin, Germany
    • Counting stars: Predictability vs creativity
    • Media

  28. The Web Is…

    • Cardiff, UK
    • Geek Mental Help Week panel discussion
    • Media

  29. Making Web

    • Oslo, Norway
    • The Modern Designer's Canvas

  30. Smashing Conference

    • Oxford, UK
    • The Modern Designer's Canvas
    • Media

  31. Milton Keynes Geek Night

    • Milton Keynes, UK
    • Take your stinking paws off my design you damn dirty developers
    • Media Media

  32. An Event Apart

    • Atlanta, USA
    • The Modern Designer's Canvas
    • Media

  33. Manchester McrFRED

    • Manchester, UK
    • Take your stinking paws off my design you damn dirty developers
    • Media

  34. Handheld Conference

    • Cardiff, Wales
    • How to call your client an idiot without getting fired
    • Media

  35. #TIDE2013

    • Scarborough, UK
    • How to call your client an idiot without getting fired
    • Media

  36. Accessibility Day

    • Oslo, Norway
    • Designing an atmosphere of accessibility
    • Media

  37. Smashing Conference

    • Freiburg, Germany
    • Encouraging better client participation
    • Media

  38. An Event Apart

    • Austin, USA
    • Bringing A Knife To A Gunfight
    • Media

  39. What Do You Know

    • Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia
    • On The Grid
    • Media

  40. An Event Apart

    • San Francisco, USA
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  41. An Event Apart

    • Washington DC, USA
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  42. An Event Apart

    • Atlanta, USA
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  43. @media

    • London, UK
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  44. An Event Apart

    • Boston, USA
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  45. An Event Apart

    • Seattle, USA
    • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
    • Media

  46. Geek Ninja Battle Night

    • Brighton, UK

  47. New Adventures in Web Design

    • Nottingham, UK
    • Once Upon A Time On The Web

  48. An Event Apart

    • San Diego, USA
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  49. An Event Apart

    • Washington DC, USA
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  50. Web Teaching Day

    • Manchester, UK
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  51. @media

    • London, UK
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  52. An Event Apart

    • Boston, USA
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  53. DIBI

    • Gateshead, UK
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  54. An Event Apart

    • Seattle, USA
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  55. CSS3 Online Conference

    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  56. Speak the Web

    • Manchester, UK
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  57. Speak the Web

    • Leeds, UK
    • Hardboiled Web Design
    • Media

  58. Web Directions East

    • Tokyo, Japan
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  59. Web Directions East

    • Tokyo, Japan
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  60. An Event Apart

    • Chicago, USA
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  61. FOWD Roadshow

    • Belfast, Ireland
    • Extreme Makeover Typography Edition

  62. @media

    • London, UK
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  63. An Event Apart

    • Boston, USA
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  64. An Event Apart

    • Chicago, USA
    • Walls Come Tumbling Down
    • Media

  65. Fronteers

    • Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

  66. @media

    • London, UK
    • Underpants Over My Trousers

  67. An Event Apart

    • New Orleans, USA
    • Think Like A Mountain
    • Media

  68. Future of Web Design

    • New York, USA
    • "User Experience v Brand Experience" with Steve Pearce
    • Media

  69. Future of Web Design

    • New York, USA
    • An Interview With Josh Williams and Jeffrey Zeldman

  70. Voices That Matter

    • San Francisco, USA
    • Think Like A Mountain
    • Media

  71. Web Directions South

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Think Like A Mountain
    • Media Media

  72. @media

    • London, UK
    • Royale With Cheese
    • Media

  73. @media (America)

    • San Francisco, USA
    • Royale With Cheese

  74. Future Of Web Design

    • London, UK
    • Designing for developers
    • Media

  75. The Highland Fling

    • Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Beyond progressive enhancement
    • Media

  76. SXSW Interactive

    • Austin, USA
    • "Bullet Tooth Web Design" with Jason Santa Maria
    • Media Media

  77. Web Directions North

    • Vancouver, Canada
    • "Transcendent Design with Javascript & CSS' with Aaron Gustafson
    • Media Media

  78. Bloc

    • Caernarfon, Wales
    • Sharing and Collaboration Creates New Opportunities

  79. AOL Design Team

    • New York, USA
    • Creating Inspired Design
    • Media

  80. Fundamentos Web

    • Oviedo, Spain
    • Feeding Creativity Without Compromising User Needs
    • Media Media

  81. Web Directions South

    • Sydney, Australia
    • Creating Inspired Design
    • Media Media

  82. @media

    • London, UK
    • Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design
    • Media Media

  83. WWW2006

    • Edinburgh, Scotland
    • No Web 2.0 Without Responsibility
    • Media

  84. IceWeb

    • Reykjavik, Iceland
    • Feeding Creativity Without Compromising User Needs
    • Media

  85. IceWeb

    • Reykjavik, Iceland
    • How To Be A Web Design Superhero
    • Media

  86. SXSW Interactive

    • Austin, USA
    • "How To Be A Web Design Superhero" with Andy Budd
    • Media Media

  87. @media

    • London, UK
    • Anatomy Of A Mouse
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