Workshops
Join us learning about the very latest in modern web design, in a 500 year old historic venue!
On Monday, September 8, and Thursday, September 11 we're hosting five full-day workshops in our beautiful Kaufhaus venue. Topics will range from UX to CSS, and all workshops are hands-on and practical, so you can apply your new skills immediately.
Tickets cost €549 — with discounts for Smashing Members and bundle tickets available. 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 are super practical and offer the opportunity to learn new concepts and techniques in real depth, with a full day spent on the topic of your choice. It’s a great way to start and 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 €599 — 19% VAT and booking fees included.
Workshops include…
- Snacks and drinks during the whole day
- Tea and coffee
- Lunch
- Paper and pen/pencil
Please notice 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, 2025 Edition
Full-day workshop • Monday, September 8, 2025.
Not much can surprise us when it comes to interface challenges. We can design a decent card, a well-rounded accordion and an exquisite hamburger navigation. But what if there are slightly more complex UX challenges ahead of us?
In this workshop with Vitaly Friedman, UX consultant and creative lead behind Smashing Magazine, you will learn how to tackle intricate design challenges in corporate, enterprise and B2B environments with ease.
If you’ve attended a workshop on Complex Design Patterns in previous years, this is a fully revamped and updated workshop tailored for even more complex UX challenges. -
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Manuel Matuzović
Accessible Frontend Patterns
Full-day workshop • Thursday, September 11, 2025.
To build an accessible website, we need to understand HTML well. When our designs and patterns get more complex and dynamic, being good at HTML is not enough. We need extensive knowledge about UX, ARIA, assistive technology, and tools.
In this workshop with Manuel Matuzović, front-end developer, consultant, and book author, you will learn how to build and test complex accessible components like accordions, modals, tabs, or tables. -
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Vitaly Friedman
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
Full-day workshop • Thursday, September 11, 2025.
As we all are exploring ways to include AI in our products, too often we rely on a good old-fashioned conversational UI to bring AI to life. However, this experience is often painfully slow, the responses are generic and users have to meticulously explain to Gemini, Chat-GPT and others just what exactly they need — over and over and over again.
In this workshop, we’ll explore new design patterns for better AI experiences, with daemons, clustering, style lenses, structured presets and templates, dynamic editing, temperature knobs and everything in-between! The workshop isn’t about how to use Midjourney, Chat-GPT etc., but rather how to design better AI experiences.
