Connie Finkelman
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013
Front-end Experience Architect
Connie has been developing websites for over fifteen years and is currently the Senior UI Architect for Vitacost/Kroger, where she is architecting the front-end of Kroger's new responsive online storefronts. Before joining Vitacost, she developed websites and mobile applications for Office Depot, and for agency corporate clients including Coca-Cola and AT&T. Connie has developed enterprise websites in languages as diverse as Arabic and Japanese, and has won numerous awards for her use of innovative techniques, including 3 American Advertising (Addy) Awards for responsive website design and development.
She is co-founder of the digital agency Pixelslave, Inc. and is a passionate evangelist for performance, user experience and accessibility. She is also the pseudonymous author of six novels in which she explores the dark side of technology.
Presentations
Enterprise CSS
This talk will focus on how to author and maintain CSS under the fast-paced, large-scale conditions of the enterprise environment. We will briefly cover some foundational CSS coding concepts, then move on to a discussion of CSS architecture. We'll also discuss maintenance and refactoring, performance and other server-side topics.
Developing Responsive Websites
What makes a site responsive? What is the difference between responsive and adaptive? Does responsive design work for all sites, or just blogs?
Interactive Prototyping for Agile Teams
Jump start development projects, get stakeholder buy-in and work out the kinks before you build. In an Agile environment prototypes are useful for requirements gathering and communicating functionality. Interactive prototypes provide a clear understanding and demonstration of functionality before any code is written. They greatly increase the productivity of teams, especially those with remote members or offshore resources.
Enterprise CSS
This talk will focus on how to author and maintain CSS under the fast-paced, large-scale conditions of the enterprise environment. We will briefly cover some foundational CSS coding concepts, then move on to a discussion of CSS architecture. We'll also discuss maintenance and refactoring, performance and other server-side topics.