OddBird

About Us

Speaking & Training

Conferences, workshops, and more…

We’re constantly learning from the inspiration and mentoring of others, so we like to pass that knowledge along: talking and writing about the tools and practices that have helped improve our work. We also provide workshops and in-house trainings – to help improve design systems, designer-developer communication, site performance, and accessibility.

Some pretty mind-bendingly cool uses for CSS custom props from @MiriSuzanne – color, layout & animation all in css and only using JS to feed data.

Well that was awesome!!! “If you think CSS is a dumb language, you’re a dumb language — CSS IS AWESSOME!” @MiriSuzanne thank you so much for the amazing talk!

Miriam has always been nothing but spot-on, professional, funny, while also being extremely knowledgeable, smart, polite and always on time.

So stoked @mirisuzanne is @vueconfus !!! look at how cool CSS is ~ and all the squishy things it does.

Featured Talks

Agile Design Systems

A talk on how we automate style documentation by building patterns directly into our code.

Dynamic CSS: Layouts & Beyond

Learn to integrate design and code to isolate components and automate style documentation with a design system built for your needs.

User Unfriendly

A project-manager’s reflections on human-centered problem-solving, client communication, and agile web development.

Planning Your Web Project

A non-technical guide for taking your project from concept to launch, without ever losing sight of the goals.

Featured Workshops

Featured Videos

Event Schedule

User Unfriendly at Open Source Conference

on with Miriam Suzanne in Denver, CO

The web is more than a technology platform, it was created with a mission statement. Design and code trends also come with attached philosophies, and we need to consider the implications. We’ll talk about our human-centered approach to product-design – learning to understand user-feedback, designing for edge-cases, transparent client communication, and tightly integrated design and development teams.

Upcoming Appearances

Speaking History

Industry-Leading Expertise

Founders Miriam and Carl are internationally known for their open source contributions to Sass/CSS and Django/Python, respectively. We’ve written the books, contributed to the languages, and built the tools for other developers. We don’t just follow best-practice – we help define it.

Jump Start Your Project

A fantastic speaker, with wonderful teaching skills, and highly praised by attendees of the conference and the workshop alike.

Ask us anything.

We’re happy to answer your questions, big or small. If we’re a good fit for your custom web project, we’ll offer a free in-depth assessment!

Schedule a call with Miriam