What Makes a Good Website in 2026? The importance of staying human in an AI enabled world

Kelly Drewett started building websites at 19, at a time when most people didn't know what one was. Twenty-five years later, she's still doing it - and loving it! Not many people can say they knew what they wanted to be from so early on and many change course. Kelly has watched the web design industry transform completely, multiple times over - from HTML and dial-up connections, to WordPress, mobile and now AI - and her relationship to that change is what makes this conversation worth your time. She's not anxious about it. She's curious. Some of that curiosity was inherited. Kelly's mum bought a computer before most households had one, taught her daughter to type, and when Kelly said she wanted to leave her first job in illustration to build websites, she gave her blessing and her computer, despite saying “why would anyone use a website”. That kind of belief at the beginning of something, from the people we most want it from, matters more than most people admit. For most of those 25 years Kelly worked entirely alone, keeping the business deliberately small so she could travel the world as one of the OG digital nomads! Now, for the first time, she's building a team and finding new passions in leadership. This is a conversation about loving your work across the long run. About staying relevant and understanding disruptions without chasing every trend. And about what it means to have someone in your corner from the very start. Connect with Kelly directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellydrewett/ Learn about her business Kaydee Web: https://kaydee.net/