

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.
22–29 JulGlobal Scope
Improve Your Lighthouse Score with Partytown
Increasing Array's Immutable Interface
Debugging Apps with JS Frameworks
Strength in Weakness: JavaScript Memory Management and Weak References
Typed JavaScript? For Real? The "Type Annotations" Proposal and What It's All About
Function Composition: What's the Big Deal?








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.
