Great conferences are all about learning new skills and making new connections. That’s why we’ve set up a couple of new adventures for SmashingConf 2018 — just practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations — with a dash of friendly networking! Taking place in London, San Francisco, Toronto. Tickets? Glad you asked!
SmashingConf London / #perfmatters / Feb 7–8
Performance matters. Next year, we’re thrilled to venture to London for our brand new conference fully dedicated to everything front-end performance. Dealing with ads, third-party scripts, A/B testing, HTTP/2, debugging, JAM stack, PWA, web fonts loading, memory/CPU perf, service workers. Plus lightning community talks. Schedule and details.
SmashingConf London: everything web performance. Feb 7–8.
Speakers and Topics
Over the two days, we’ll cover pretty much every aspect of front-end performance: from rendering to debugging. Two days, one track, 14 speakers and 7 hands-on workshops. 50 early-bird-tickets now on sale.
- Mobile Performance
Estelle Weyl (Standardista) - Debugging
Umar Hansa (Shazam) - Web Font Loading
Zach Leatherman (Filament Group) - Rendering
Una Kravets (DigitalOcean) - Fast JavaScript
Mathias Bynens (Google) - Measuring Performance
Patrick Hamann (Fastly) - Layout
Rachel Andrew (Perch) - Strategy
Jake Archibald (Google) - Mystery Speaker
Somebody you definitely know, and respect. - …and others!
SmashingConf San Francisco / #breakout / Apr 17–18
The classic. With our third annual conference in San Francisco, we want to explore ways and strategies for breaking out: leaving behind generic designs and understanding the new techniques and capabilities available today. We care about the solutions we come up with, and the approaches that failed along the way. In San Francisco, we want to find out the why, and how, and what we all — as designers and developers — need to know today to be more productive and make smarter decisions tomorrow. Schedule and details.
SmashingConf SF: breaking out of the box. Apr 17–18.
Speakers and Topics
A wide range of everything web-related, covered in 2 days, with a single track, 14 speakers and 8 hands-on workshops. CSS Grid, Design systems, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, accessibility, performance, lettering, graphic design, UX, multi-cultural design, among other things. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.
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Addy Osmani
Modern Loading Best Practices • Google Chrome -
Yiying Lu
Cross-Cultural Design • Disney, Twitter -
Trent Walton
Building the Next Generation of Websites • Paravel -
Rachel Andrew
CSS Grid • Perch -
Huijing Chen
Web Typography • Where East Meets West -
Michael Riethmuller
Beyond Media Queries • Fluid Typography -
Joe Leech
Psychology and The Perfect Design • cxpartners -
Josh Clark
Design in the Era of the Algorithm • Big Medium -
Jessica Hische
From Pencil To Vector -
Aaron Draplin
Bold Designs • DDC - Mystery Speaker
Somebody you know, and respect. • Macaw - CSS
Lea Verou (MIT) - Creative JavaScript
Seb Lee-Delisle - JavaScript
Sarah Drasner (Microsoft) - UX Psychology
Joe Leech - Lettering
Gemma O’Brien - Performance
Tim Kadlec (Snyk) - Design Workflow
Dan Mall (Superfriendly) - Data Visualization
Nadieh Bremer - Visual Design
Aaron Draplin (DDC) - Multi-Cultural Design
Yiying Lu - Mystery Speaker
Somebody you definitely know, and respect. - …and others!
- SmashingConf London, Feb 7–8,
#perfmatters, - SmashingConf San Francisco, Apr 17–18,
#breakout, - SmashingConf Toronto, Jun 26–27,
#noslides. - Responsive Web Design
(e.g. clever tips, techniques, workflow, strategy) - Advanced Front-End Techniques
(e.g. CSS/JS architecture, Sass, LESS, maintanence) - Performance Optimization
(e.g. refactoring, optimization for mobile) - User Experience
(e.g. mobile UX, design patterns, usability testing) - Conversion Rate Optimization
(e.g. checkout process, Web forms) - Building and Debugging Web Apps
(e.g. tools, strategy, maintenance issues) - Sketching and Wireframing
(e.g. sketching interfaces) - …and more topics.
SmashingConf Toronto / #noslides / Jun 26–27
What’s the best way to learn? By observing designers and developers working live. For our new conference in Toronto, all speakers aren’t allowed to use any slides at all. Welcome SmashingConf #noslides, a brand new conference, full of interactive live sessions, showing how web designers design and how web developers build — including setup, workflow, design thinking, naming conventions and everything in-between. Schedule and details.
SmashingConf Toronto: no slides, live sessions only. Jun 26–27.
Speakers and Topics
Interactive live sessions on everything from organizing layers in Photoshop to naming conventions in CSS. Live workflow in Sketch and Photoshop, design systems setup, lettering, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, CSS Grid Layout, live debugging, performance audits, accessibility audits, sketching, graphic design, data visualization and creative coding. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.
Tickets!
To give everybody a chance to buy ticket in time, we are releasing all tickets in batches this time. The first batch of super early-birds are available right away: fetch them before they fly out!
Full-Day In-House Workshops? Sure!
Is your company struggling with legacy systems or a suboptimal workflow? How about front-end issues or responsive design? I’m there to help. I’d be more than happy to run in-house workshops for your company, tailored specifically to your needs. Get in touch.
I’m totally flexible in terms of topics and the format of the workshop. What I really want is to help you solve your problems. Here are just some workshops ideas that we could run:
Interested? Brilliant! Let’s see what we can do! Just send a short email to vitaly@smashingconf.com and simply describe what problems you’d like to solve. We’ll do our best to deliver the most value and effectively address your issues. And don’t worry about the pricing, we’ll find a fair pricing for sure. Yes, it’s that easy!