CraftKeynote
The interface is the argument
Every component encodes a belief about how people should work. Amara on making those beliefs explicit — and worth defending.
Amara OkaforFernwork
Main Hall
Design engineering conference · 3rd editionArmazém 9, Lisbon
Overture 2027, 14–16 April 2027, Lisbon
Three days on the craft of building interfaces — the code, the motion, the systems and the people behind them. One room full of people who design in code.
Doors open in
Lisbon · WESTCountdown to doors open
Early-bird pricing ends 30 November. The workshop pass is 80% sold.
- days
- 3
- talks & keynotes
- 22
- workshops
- 6
- speakers
- 12
- attendees
- 1,200
02Schedule
Three days. Two stages. One hallway track.
Save sessions to build your own agenda — it stays on this device, flags clashes and exports to your calendar.
Conference day one
A keynote, nine talks and a panel across three rooms. Lunch on the quay, then the riverside party.
- 08:30Registration and coffee· Foyer
09:30
until 10:15
10:30
until 11:00
MotionSprings, not seconds
Why fixed durations feel wrong, how to tune stiffness and damping by feel, and a vocabulary your whole team can share.
Jun ArakawaIndependent
Main Hall
SystemsTokens all the way down
Three tiers of tokens, one naming grammar and the migration that moved 900 hard-coded colors without a freeze.
Lena VogtStrata Nine
Dock Stage
11:15
until 11:45
CraftFocus is a feature
Designing focus order, focus rings and focus restoration as first-class parts of the product, not an audit finding.
Sam WhitlockMosswell
Main Hall
SystemsForty teams, no mandate
How a design system won adoption on merit: a changelog people read, office hours and a migration bot.
Theo MarchettiNorthpine
Dock Stage
- 12:00Lunch on the quay· Quay
13:15
until 13:45
CraftVariable fonts in production
One file, five axes and the loading strategy that cut a font payload by 70% without a flash of fallback text.
Hana LindqvistLattice Row
Main Hall
ToolingYour build is a design tool
Lint rules for spacing, bundle budgets for motion and a CI step that screenshots every state.
Felix BrandtParcel & Pine
Studio 3
14:00
until 14:30
MotionChoreographing layout
Shared-element transitions that survive real data, real lists and real interruptions.
Priya RamanGlyphhouse
Main Hall
ToolingVisual regression without the flake
Deterministic fonts, frozen clocks and a review flow that makes screenshot diffs worth looking at.
Noor El-AminMeridel
Dock Stage
15:00
until 15:45
CraftPanelPanel: Who owns the last 10%?
Designers, engineers and a director argue about polish, deadlines and whose job it is to care.
Ruth Adeyemi-Clarke, Theo Marchetti, Inês Calado
Main Hall
16:00
until 16:30
ToolingPrototyping in the real medium
Why Orbitry stopped making static mocks, and what reviews look like when the prototype is the product.
Marco DelgadoOrbitry
Main Hall
- 19:00Riverside party· Terrace
03Speakers
People who ship the details.
Twelve speakers from eleven countries. No sponsored talks, no product pitches — every speaker was invited for the work, not the logo.
04Tickets
Pick a pass. Bring the team.
Prices include VAT. Buy 5 or more tickets in one order and 10% comes off automatically.
Online
Every talk, live and on demand.
$149
- Livestream of both stages
- Replays for 12 months
- Speaker Q&A threads
- Digital attendee pack
Quantity0- Most picked
Conference
Two days of talks in Lisbon.
$690$820
- Days two and three, both stages
- Lunch, coffee and the riverside party
- Replays for 12 months
- Printed attendee field guide
1 × $6901 Conference + Workshop
The full three days, hands on.
$1,090$1,240
- Everything in Conference
- One workshop seat on day one
- Opening reception
- Workshop materials to keep
49 leftof 240Quantity0Student & community
For students and non-profit staff.
$240
- Days two and three, both stages
- Lunch and coffee
- Verification by email after purchase
18 leftof 80Quantity0
05Venue & travel
A 1920s warehouse on the river.
Armazém 9 is a restored cork warehouse on Rua do Cais, Lisbon. Talks happen under the original roof trusses; lunch happens on the quay.
- Step-free
- Lifts to every floor
- Captioned
- Live, on both stages
- Quiet room
- Open all three days
- Childcare
- Free, book by 1 March
06Sponsors
Made possible by teams who build this way.
Headline
- Tessaly
- STRATA NINE
Partners
- Fernwork
- northpine
- Glyphhouse
- MERIDEL
Community
- Orbitry
- Parcel & Pine
- mosswell
- Lattice Row
- Vantor
TessalySTRATA NINEFernworknorthpineGlyphhouseMERIDELOrbitryParcel & PinemosswellLattice RowVantor
07FAQ
Good questions, straight answers.
Yes. Every talk on both stages is recorded and captioned. Online, Conference and Workshop tickets include replays for twelve months; the rest go public in September.
Still wondering?
Write to the organising team — a real person replies within one working day, Lisbon time.
[email protected]