Speakers
The hunt for shiny front-end & UX treasures has begun! For our sixth SmashingConf — in bustling New York — we’ll explore how to apply psychology to UX, design workflow, refactoring, moving to a static site setup, CSS Grid techniques, performance, deployment patterns for HTTP/2 and how to provide better estimates and pricing.
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Wes Bos
Wes Bos is a Full Stack JavaScript Developer, Speaker and Teacher from Canada.
He is the creator of React For Beginners, ES6 for Everyone, CSSGrid.io, and many other popular video web development courses. You can catch Wes twice a week on his Syntax.fm Podcast.
- Talk
- Slam Dunk Your Javascript Fundamentals
- On the web
- https://wesbos.com
- On Twitter
- @wesbos
Trine Falbe
Trine Falbe is a researcher, consultant, speaker and lecturer focused on empowering people through ethical design. She is the author of the book White Hat UX.
She is deeply committed to working truly human centered and building honest, transparent experiences. Over the past years, a lot of her work has been focused on designing for, and with children.
- Talk
- Designing For Kids Is Not A Game
- On the web
- https://trinefalbe.com
- On Twitter
- @trinefalbe
Scott Jehl
Scott Jehl is a designer/developer at Filament Group who lives in sunny Florida, USA. Scott is a tireless advocate of practices that ensure web access for all. He is a frequent presenter at conferences throughout the world and is always chipping away at various open source projects with his colleagues at Filament.
Scott is the author of Responsible Responsive Design (2014, A Book Apart), and co-author of Designing with Progressive Enhancement (2010, New Riders). Scott also loves to surf.
- Talk
- Move Fast & Don’t Break Things
- On the web
- https://scottjehl.com
- On Twitter
- @scottjehl
Miriam Suzanne
Miriam Suzanne is an author, artist, web developer, and teacher in Denver, Colorado. She’s a co-founder of OddBird web agency, a member of the Sass core team, and a W3C Invited Expert on the CSS Working Group.
After building Susy for responsive CSS layouts in 2009, and then True for Sass unit-testing, Miriam became one of the primary developers of Sass & CSS developer tools, with a focus on layout, architecture, and design systems. She’s also a prolific teacher – offering CSS workshops, and speaking at conferences around the world. She’s a co-author of Sitepoint’s Jump Start Sass, a staff writer for CSS Tricks, and was a founding teacher on the Mozilla Developer youtube channel.
- Talk
- CSS Is Rad
- On the web
- https://miriam.codes
- On Twitter
- @TerribleMia
Remy Sharp
Remy is the founder and curator of ffconf, the UK based JavaScript conference. He also ran "jQuery for Designers" website, co-authored Introducing HTML5 and runs a video course on the command line.
Whilst he's not writing articles or running and speaking at conferences, he runs his own development and training company in Brighton called Left Logic. And he built these popular tools: nodemon, jsbin.com, inliner, jsconsole.com and others!
Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton is a freelance web developer and accessibility specialist. Previously, she's worked as the Head of Learning at Gatsby and as a Senior Front-End Engineer on the axe-core accessibility testing library at Deque Systems.
In 2016, O’Reilly gave Marcy a Web Platform Award for her work in accessibility. She's a founding member of the Accessibility Seattle Foundation, a nonprofit supporting the A11ySea meetup. When away from the keyboard, Marcy can be found hiking with her dog, riding a bicycle, or snowboarding.
- Talk
- Garbage Pail Components
- On the web
- https://marcysutton.com
- On Twitter
- @marcysutton
Harry Roberts
Harry is an award-winning Consultant Performance Engineer from the UK. With a client list ranging from the United Nations to Google, the BBC to the Financial Times, he has helped some of the world’s largest organisations make their websites faster.
He also holds positions as a Google Developer Expert, where he shares web performance research and findings, and as Performance Ambassador for SHIFT Commerce, where he aims to make ecommerce faster from the inside out.
He writes about all things front-end performance at csswizardry.com, speaks at tech events all across the globe, and regularly shares his insights at @csswizardry.
- Talk
- Demystifying Vim, Live!
- On the web
- https://csswizardry.com
- On Twitter
- @csswizardry
Denys Mishunov
Denys is a frontend developer & public speaker. Being 2-in-1: an art school graduate and an engineer, Denys is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing, literature. In his day-to-day job, he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes.
Wading through the thicket of frontend technologies, during his career, Denys had a chance to work with design, to master the “CSS side” of the stack, and to enjoy architecting UX. However, for the last years, Denys has been building Javascript applications of different levels of complexity.
Proudly Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab.
- Talk
- I Built <frankenstein-monster>:
3 Stories Of Migration - On the web
- https://mishunov.me/
- On Twitter
- @mishunov
Maggie Wachs
Maggie is a front end developer with Filament Group who started out building layouts with table tags and testing in Netscape. Along the way she co-authored Designing with Progressive Enhancement (2010, New Riders), and now focuses on writing code and thoughtful documentation that can be seamlessly handed off to clients, along with researching and writing about accessibility for Filament Group's blog.
When her laptop is closed, she's outside running, skiing, wrangling kids, and working on local conservation efforts in New Hampshire.
Dan Mall
Dan Mall is a creative director and advisor from Philly. He’s the founder and CEO of SuperFriendly, a design collaborative that helps in-house teams make better digital products with design systems. Dan is an enthralled husband & dad, author of Pricing Design, and co-founder of SuperBooked, a service that helps you find work with a little help from your friends. He writes about design and other issues on http://twitter.com/danmall and on his industry-recognized site, danmall.me.
- Talk
- Designer vs. Developer!
- On the web
- http://danmall.me
- On Twitter
- @danmall
Brad Frost
Brad Frost is a web designer, speaker, writer, and consultant located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems.
In addition to co-hosting the Style Guides Podcast, he has also helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, and This Is Responsive.
- Talk
- Designer vs. Developer!
- On the web
- http://bradfrost.com
- On Twitter
- @brad_frost
Sara Soueidan
Sara Soueidan is a Lebanese freelance front-end UI/UX developer working with companies across the globe, building clean, responsive front-ends for Web sites and applications focused on accessibility, progressive enhancement and performance.
She also runs workshops on front-end development and writes technical articles on her blog and for various big publications.
Sara wrote the Codrops CSS Reference, co-authored the Smashing Book 5, and has been voted the Developer of the Year in the 2015 net awards.
Mystery Speaker
Obviously our Mystery Speaker is a bit of a… well Mystery. In true smashing style you can expect something wonderful, so we’re very excited.
