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7 days left. 7 more reasons to come to #btconf Düsseldorf 2026 🧵
1. Oliver Reichenstein
2. Community
3. James Victore
4. Typography
5. Kimya Gandhi
6. Craft
7. Conversations
27–28 April → https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026
Also: there are only a few tickets left for what might just be Europe’s finest conference on design, creativity, and the Web. ✨ Trust me: this one’s genuinely special. The kind of event that will change you and your perspectives. 🖤
A week from now, I’ll be in Düsseldorf for @btconf 🎉🤗
Can’t wait to be back in the audience – who will join me there? 👋
“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.”
Wise words from @zeldman 💙
https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/
When I talk about web sustainability, I often draw a parallel with fashion designers who know their materials and source them to create better products.
This article by @matthiasott explores this idea further:
"The best work happens not when thinking and doing are separated, but when they can’t be pulled apart. When the person shaping the vision also feels the resistance of the material. When understanding how something is made changes your idea of what it should be."
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.
Somehow I forgot to mention that I'm speaking at @cssday in Amsterdam. It's one of my favorite conferences, and I can't wait to be blown away by the sheer amount of knowledge. Look at the line-up, it's once again ridiculous!
The ticket price goes up on May 14th, so better buy your ticket now!
beyond tellerrand
Nicolas Paries
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