Workshops
Our workshops provide an immersive experience to learn the latest techniques and best practices, with a full day dedicated to your preferred topic. It's an ideal way to enhance your conference experience.
On the day before and after the conference, April 13 and 16, we will host full-day workshops. You can save €100 by getting a conference + workshop ticket.
Get a workshop or bundle ticket and assign your workshop at any time.
What an amazing days @smashingconf Freiburg. This is the most I have learned at a single conference in a long time.
Our workshops offer the opportunity to get to grips with new ideas and techniques in real depth, with a full day spent on the topic of your choice. It’s a great way to round off your conference experience, and lunch will be provided, too.
Join one of the intensive workshops with a limited number of seats. Tickets for the full-day workshops cost €549 excl. VAT (€664 incl. 21% VAT), and combination, team and member discounts are available.
Workshops include…
- Snacks and drinks during the whole day
- Tea and coffee
- Lunch
- Paper and pen/pencil
Please note that the maximum capacity of each workshop is limited. A computer will not be provided, so please bring your own laptop to the workshop.
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- Your instructor
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Christine Vallaure
Figma Deep Dive
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 13, 2026.
Variables, Components and Responsive Design
In this deep-dive workshop, we will tackle one of the most essential yet tricky parts of UI design using Figma: truly responsive, component-based UI Design.
Throughout the workshop, we will engage in a balanced mix of theory and hands-on exercises, with plenty of opportunity for you to ask questions. -
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Vitaly Friedman
Designing For Complex UIs, 2026 Edition
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 13, 2026.
Roll up your sleeves — it’s time to brush up your UX skills! How would you architect an effective enterprise-grade table? How would you deal with intricate forms, filters and search UX? How do we design effective, accessible data visualizations? And how do we design better AI experiences for our customers, while respecting digital sustainability and inclusive design?
In this brand new workshop with Vitaly Friedman, a UX designer with the European Parliament and SmashingMag, we’ll cover all of it — with real-life UX challenges and 100s of practical examples and patterns that you can apply to your work right away.Get ready: you’ll sail uncharted waters, design truly complex interfaces and receive feedback from people around the world. Plus: you’ll get a UX certificate for all your hard work as well.
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- Your instructor
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Kevin Powell
The New CSS Toolkit
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 16, 2026.
Streamlining Development with Modern Features!
This comprehensive one-day workshop will take you on a journey through the most exciting developments in CSS over the past few years.
We’ll be exploring powerful layout techniques and advanced CSS features that will equip you with practical skills to build more maintainable, robust stylesheets and solve complex design challenges with less code.
Join us to explore how these powerful features can solve real-world design challenges while improving both user and developer experiences. -
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Vitaly Friedman
How To Measure UX and Design Impact
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 16, 2026.
How do we measure the quality of UX? What metrics to use? How to bridge business objectives and UX goals? How to remove bias and guesswork from our design decisions? And how to measure and make a case for the impact of your UX work? Well, let’s figure it out, in the upcoming brand-new Measure UX and Design Impact workshop with Vitaly Friedman.