beyond tellerrand

06/02/2025

Great fun!

The explosion of screen time and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic have profoundly changed the way we view community events.

In this recap, beyond tellerrand founder Marc Thiele shares his insights on what it takes to build successful, lasting community experiences—and why in-person is more vital than ever.

https://typo3.com/blog/t3con24-recap-why-independent-community-events-matter

10/12/2024

About time to reveal a few more speakers for 2025, right? So, here is Amber Case. Amber and I are speaking for a while now and I am happy that she is part of the 2025 festival. Next to her studies of interactions between humans and technology, and how technology affects culture, she is the founder of The Calm Tech Institute. What that is? Well, read on … https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/speakers/amber-case

25/11/2024

New week, new talk. This week is going to be kicked off with the closing talk of Berlin 2024. It is Hidde de Vries and his talk about why “Creativity cannot be Computed”. Have a lovely start into the new week and enjoy Hidde's presentation.

Computers are great. But should we put them in charge of creativity? Can they push boundaries, take moral stances, move audiences or turn personal experience...

20/11/2024

Next video has been released. Find the talk “So You’ve Decided to Do a Technical Migration” by Sophie Koonin which she gave at Berlin 2024 in our YouTube channel.

It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from a...

19/11/2024

In case you haven’t yet recognised: Vitaly is also bringing a full-day workshop about “Designing For Complex UIs In 2025”. Right now you can grab a pass for the early bird price still.

In this workshop with Vitaly Friedman, the UX lead with the European Parliament and Smashing Magazine, you’ll learn how to deal with real-life UX challenges from the ground up. Get ready: you’ll sail …

18/11/2024

New week, new video. Jan De Coster was speaking about to "Never Let Go of Your Dragon". What that means? Well, you need to fin out. But it was ace to have him back at .

After creating physical projects for many years there comes a moment that you are confronted with the size of your body of work. How did it come to this? Wha...

16/11/2024

The lovely Norman Posselt finished the speaker portraits of last week's Berlin edition. This time he went for colour and I love the result! https://beyondtellerrand.com/photos/portraits-berlin-2024

14/11/2024

Speaker Introduction: I got to know Vitaly Friedman through a road trip in 2011 I did with a handful of people. We all did not know each other. All together in a van we were on the way to an event called “New Adventures in Web Design” that took place on 20th January 2011 and was organised by my friend Simon Collison. Little did I know how much Vitaly and I would explore together and how many adventures were ahead.

On that journey I told Vitaly about my event, which I was just about to start. He was in for it instantly and gave a talk at the very first beyond tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf, November 2011. His talk back then was titled “The Invisible Side of Design” and he (not me) refers to it as ”[…]my worst talk ever[…]”.

Next to this, we got into conversations about starting an event for the online magazine he had co-founded in 2006 and which we all knew too well, since it was one of THE goto address for web designers: Smashing Magazine. I loved the idea, he loved the way I was running events and the atmosphere at my events and we started the first Smashing Conference in 2012 in Freiburg, the town were Smashing Magazine was based.

Now Vitaly is back with a new talks and full-day workshop. Stay tuned for more information and check our website (link in bio) and if you want to go fully in, then have a look at his workshop titled “Designing For Complex UIs In 2025”.

beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025 is taking place on May 5 and 6 and you can learn more about this, if you hit the link in our bio.

14/11/2024

Next video of Berlin 2024 is public. This time it is the wonderful Linda Liukas with her talk “A Playground Worth a Thousand Programmes”. A lovely talk with which she opened the 2024 festival.

What if coding were as intuitive as playing in a playground? In this talk, Linda Liukas explores the concept of embodied knowledge in computer science, showi...

13/11/2024

First videos are going online. We start with the great talk about “Color in CSS" by the one and only @front-end.social. Held last Friday at Berlin 2024. Here you go. Enjoy.

Everybody’s talking about container queries, nesting, scroll-driven animation, and view transitions. In all the excitement for these new modules, one topic i...

25/10/2024

Well … I create the badges for Berlin now. In case you want your name printed and not a sticker with your name on the badge, get a ticket within the next 10 minutes. If that is not a reason to get one, what lese is? 😁

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

23/10/2024

Hello Facebookers. Got a ticket for Berlin already? About time! 14 days until we meet. A bag full of exciting and inspiring talks from wonderful people. Plus two days of networking with friendly fellas.All waiting for you.

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

22/10/2024

Hey there. Sent a new edition of the newsletter today plus another “Update Letter” to the attendees. Feels good. Especially to get lovely responses to it. Informed people that the schedule for Berlin is online, but also the Exhibition page with confirmed exhibitors for our Lounge. Climbing, surfing, book signings and more … join us! https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2024/exhibition

18/10/2024

Hello and good morning from the Austrian mountains. The Schedule for Berlin's 2024 edition is online and, hey, what a great line-up and story-line. Check the schedule with all topics here: https://btco.nf/schedule

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

10/10/2024

Happy to share a new face of the hashtag family. Say hello to Christine Vallaure who is coming to speak at Berlin's 2024 edition in just month from now. See who Christine is and what she does here.

And of course: HELLO Christine!

Christine Vallaure is the founder of moonlearning.io, a UX, UI Design, and Figma learning platform where design meets code. With experience working with leading brands, agencies, and startups across Berlin, Mexico City, and London, Christine now calls Madrid home. As a designer and educator, she is....