Hello. I'm Kean Richmond

Web Designer, developer, front-end coder, blog writer and more...

I'm Kean, I live in North Yorkshire and I do stuff on the Internet.
Currently I work as a Senior Designer / Developer for Bronco and have been since graduating with a degree in Web Development.

This website is my online home where I get to play with design, write about the career I love and show off some of the work I'm most proud of. Hope you enjoy it.

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25th July 2010

Conferences Again!

After writing about Conferences yesterday it reminded me of a post I came across the other day. Paul’s post talks about design conferences being too safe, many of them going with the same old faces, speaking frequently about the same old things. I have to agree to a certain extent with what he says but I also agree that it’s difficult to strike a balance as well as to get people to pay to see complete unknowns, no matter how fantastic they may be.

But it’s not just the faces that should change it’s also the content. Too often you go to a design conference and learn about HTML and CSS, maybe something about design theory or how to survive as a freelancer. But all too often our jobs require more of us, Paul Boag’s session at FOWD this year highlighted this simple truth. For myself working at Bronco I feel means I’ve had to develop further than if I was at any other company. Not only do I have to know about the bread and butter of design and development but I also have to have an understanding of SEO, being that this is what Bronco is best known for. Yet at design conferences this is hardly raised, the concept frequently seen as evil and anti-user.

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