The story of how CSSConf came to be, how you can be involved, the intersection of design and development, carpentry and dance dance revolution, and why you should follow your heart (and f*ck your career).

How to use SVG and CSS to bring elements of storytelling into your designs, avoiding mistakes from the past (”Animate all the things!“), and tricks for cross-browser animation.

The importance of adapatibility over reusability, what makes a component, organising components, and how to apply the component model using tools such as React, Component and SUIT.

How to bring your design process closer to the code, how it helps to elevate design conversations, and experiences at Twitter and Github for using web-based tools (such as Ratchet, Framer, and [to be named]) to design native applications.

A mind-bending guide to building (and exploding) a rhombic dodecahedron and other polyhedra using only HTML, CSS transforms and a little bit of math.

Using CSS as a declarative language for code quality analysis, uptime monitoring, and accessibility testing using Behaviour Assertion Sheets, and ideas and techniques for building your own declarative CSS-based tools.

An in-depth look at how colour works on screen, sub-pixels, the history of HTML and CSS colour (orange!), filters, blend modes, colour perception, currentColor, and up-coming CSS Level 4 features.

Designing HTML components directly in the browser (without a preprocessor) using CSS properties such as currentColor, EMs, REMs, and flexbox.

Reflections on the success of Sass, how it evolved, useful abstractions, the importance of allowing hand-crafted output, listening to community feedback, attention to error cases, features that don’t belong in Sass, and how you can contribute.

The final session of CSSConf Australia 2014: an open Q&A with all the speakers.