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, October 12 and October 15, 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 €664 — 21% VAT and booking fees included.
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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Vitaly Friedman
Designing For Complex UIs, 2026 Edition
Full-day workshop • Monday, October 12, 2026.
Not much can surprise us when it comes to interface challenges. We can design a decent card, a well-rounded accordion, an accessible modal and an exquisite hamburger navigation. But what if there are slightly more complex UX challenges ahead of us?
Well, complex UI doesn’t have to be complicated. In this workshop with Vitaly Friedman, UX consultant and creative lead behind Smashing Magazine, we’ll dive deep into dissecting how to solve complex design problems. Whether you’re working on a complex nested multi-level navigation or creating enterprise grade tables, this workshop will give you the tools you need to excel at your work. -
- Your instructor
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Vitaly Friedman
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
Full-day workshop • Thursday, October 15, 2026.
As product teams race to include AI in all products, they often feel bolted on, disconnected, generic, slow, inaccurate, wasteful. The responses are generic and users have to meticulously articulate their intent to AI interfaces, with the burden often being kept on users’ shoulders.
In this workshop, we’ll explore shiny new design patterns for better AI experiences — with daemons, clustering, style lenses, structured presets, agentic UX patterns and templates, dynamic editing, temperature knobs and everything in-between! Plus, a design process on how to integrate AI to increase reliability and build user’s trust.