Brecht de Ruyte: The Future of UI is Open

When dealing with more advanced UI elements there are a lot of things that go wrong. They impact performance, accessibility and have the tendency to create frustrations along the way.

By combining modern web capabilities we'll take a peek at the future of styling custom UI by only using HTML and CSS. Strap on your seatbelt, because in this presentation, we'll be diving into the world of popovers, invokers, stylable selects, and accordions. Giving you less frustration, performance boosts and basic accessibility out of the box!

Brecht de Ruyte Brecht De Ruyte is a self-taught front-end developer located in Belgium with a passion for UX and Design. After more than a decade of working in tech, he started writing down his findings about HTML, CSS, and JS with an eye on accessibility and UX. During the day, you can find him working at iO Ghent on various projects. There are a lot of environments he is working in, the majority of them being Twig and React. But Brecht’s real niche will always be semantics and CSS, especially now, with the ever-fast updates in browser support.