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Understanding the interaction between layout methods will enable you to easily create fallbacks for older browsers, and knowing how the various formatting contexts behave unlocks margin collapsing and the behavior of items inside grid or flex layout. The examples used in the talk are available as a CodePen collection.

Historical

• CSS Layout Evolution 2012
• CSS Level 1 Specification

Normal Flow (Block and Inline Layout)

• MDN: CSS Flow Layout
• Everything You Need To Know About Margins In CSS
• MDN: Visual Formatting Model

Display Level 3

• CSS Display Module Level 3
• The Two-Value Syntax of the Display Property
• Digging Into The Display Property: The Two Values of Display

Box Generation

• Digging Into The Display Property: Box Generation
• display: contents is not a CSS Reset
• More accessible markup with display: contents

Writing Modes

• Writing Modes And CSS Layout

Lists

• CSS Lists, Markers, and Counters

Flexbox

• Flexbox Use Cases
• What Happens When You Create A Flexbox Flex Container?

CSS Grid and subgrid

• Digging Into The Display Property: Grids All The Way Down
• Supporting Older Browsers
• CSS Grid Level 2: Here Comes Subgrid
• Hello, subgrid!
• Editorial layouts with Exclusions and CSS Grid
• Grid by Example Subgrid examples

Testing

• Web Platform Tests Dashboard
• Testing the Web Platform

What makes voice content unique, how spoken content upends chatbot paradigms, and how giving your content a voice humanizes it in accessible but sensitive ways.

Articles

• Hall, Erika. “Conversational Design.” A List Apart, March 15, 2018.
• Gustafson, Aaron. “Conversational Semantics.” A List Apart, August 30, 2018.
• Maury, Chris. “War Stories: My Journey from Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface.” Wired, March 2, 2016.
• Cooper, Joscelin. “Do Androids Dream in Free Verse?” A List Apart, May 5, 2015.
• Fitzgerald, Andy. “Conversations with Robots: Voice, Smart Agents & the Case for Structured Content.” A List Apart, January 10, 2019.
• Roberts, Caroline. “The FAQ as Advice Column.” A List Apart, October 11, 2018.
• Hura, Susan. “Usability Testing of Spoken Conversational Systems.” Journal of Usability Studies, 12:4, August 2017.
• So, Preston. “Usability Testing for Voice Content.” A List Apart, April 9, 2020.

Books

• Cohen, Michael H.; Giangola, James P.; Balogh, Jennifer. Voice User Interface Design. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004.
• Hall, Erika. Conversational Design. A Book Apart, 2018.
• Harris, Randy. Voice Interaction Design. Elsevier, 2004.
• McTear, Michael; Callejas, Zoraida; Griol Barres, David. The Conversational Interface. Springer, 2016.
• Moore, Robert; Szymanski, Margaret; Arar, Raphael; Ren, Guang-Jie: editors. Studies in Conversational UX Design. Springer, 2018.
• Pearl, Cathy. Designing Voice User Interfaces. O’Reilly, 2016.
• Shevat, Amir. Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences. O’Reilly, 2017.

Speaker blog posts

• So, Preston. “Voice interface design is about good writing, not just good design.” preston.so, April 16, 2020.
• So, Preston. “Affordance and wayfinding in voice interface design.” preston.so, March 3, 2020.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: The story of Ask GeorgiaGov.” preston.so, February 28, 2019.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: Conversational usability testing.” preston.so, February 13, 2019.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: Conversational content strategy.” preston.so, February 11, 2019.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: Effective conversational design.” preston.so, January 31, 2019.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: Conversational information architecture.” preston.so, January 28, 2019.
• So, Preston. “Building usable conversations: How to approach conversational interfaces.” preston.so, January 18, 2019.

Conference talks

• So, Preston. “Talk over text: Conversational interface design and usability.” Frontend United Utrecht 2018, June 1, 2018.
• So, Preston and Deshpande, Nikhil. “Ask GeorgiaGov: Answering Georgians’ Questions with Alexa and Drupal.” VOICE Summit Newark 2018, July 25, 2018.
• So, Preston. “Alexa, Ask GeorgiaGov: Better Citizen Engagement with Amazon Echo and Drupal 7.” Acquia webinar, May 4, 2018.

Conducting meaningful research is even more important as our society shifts to cope with a crisis, and it takes just a little more study design work to set up a flow that keeps your participant comfortable and engaged in a remote session.

• Taranamol Kaur on the GetCalFresh team's adaptation to remote research during the pandemic
• Bernard Tyers on ethical research with vulnerable participants
• Vivianne Castillo on self-care for designers
• Timecode engine in Google Sheets (make a copy to use)
• Remote Research site’s tools list