

Long-running single-day Brighton web and JavaScript conference with a curated, ideas-first programme spanning the front end and its ethics.
ffconf is a one-day web development and JavaScript conference held in Brighton in the United Kingdom, running annually since 2009. It is organised by Left Logic, a small Brighton development company. The event is typically held at the Duke of York's Picturehouse cinema and presents a single track of eight curated sessions.
While its core is front-end engineering and the web platform, the programme regularly extends into design and ethics adjacent territory. Recent line-ups have included talks on inclusive design and bias, dark patterns and consent, design systems and web components, and the social shape of the web.
The conference is deliberately opinionated and single-track. Its design and UX relevance is real but partial: it is best understood as a web and front-end conference that consistently makes room for design, accessibility and ethics themes.
6 NovBrighton
Operations: A Developer's Guide
The Web Audio Phenomenon That Shall Not Be Named
A Talk About Everything
How to Win at Mobile Accessibility
Code Calligrams
You Should Use <Insert Library/Framework>, It's the Bestestest!

Argues that feedback-trained chatbots flatter users and discourage critical thinking, and proposes interface toggles and model changes to make AI a challenging intellectual partner rather than a passive assistant.

Cennydd Bowles applies modern moral philosophy to emerging technology, urging designers, engineers and product managers to confront algorithmic bias, surveillance, persuasive design and automation as they shape the future.

