

A prolific Australian series of design- and engineering-focused conferences.
Web Directions runs a family of conferences in Australia spanning product design, front-end engineering, and emerging technology, including themed editions on AI and product. Events are held in cities such as Sydney.
The programme addresses designing digital products in the era of large language models and the changing relationship between design and engineering, with a lineup that includes senior practitioners.
4 SepSydney
The Web Audio & Midi APIs
The Checklist Manifesto for Software
We Can Do Better Than REST
Cognitive Biases in Software Development
Firebase API
Miso.js–tiny Isomorphic JS Framework








Proposes 'Human-Agent Centered Design' as an evolution of human-centred design for the AI-agent era, urging designers to become strategists who govern agent behaviour and embed human values.

Argues that as AI agents automate execution, human taste—reframed as learnable judgment rather than innate talent—becomes the strategic bottleneck shaping what gets built and whose values systems encode.

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.
