Skip to main content

Speakers

Meet friendly live workshops on front-end, design and UX.

For our workshops, we invite experts in front-end & UX, with years of experience on anything from accessibility and web performance to design systems and UX. They aren’t just experts, but also experienced teachers and speakers.

Jump to all speakers ↓

Be notified when new workshops come up: subscribe to our updates. Obviously, you can cancel any time.

Fantastic first day of design system workshop with @brad_frost — interesting and engaging as always! Pure delight to listen to him talk about his insights and experiences from building design systems in the wild. #inspired #designsystems @smashingconf

  • Vitaly Friedman

    Vitaly Friedman

    Creative Lead and Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine

    Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems.

    On the web
    https://smashingmagazine.com
    On LinkedIn
    vitalyfriedman
  • Paul Boag

    Paul Boag

    Paul Boag is a leader in conversion optimisation, digital strategy and user experience design. He has been working with diverse organisations such as The European Commission, PUMA and Doctors Without Borders for over 25 years. Through consultancy and training, he helps organisations better connect with today’s digital consumers.

    Paul is also a well-respected figure in the digital sector. Author of six books, including Click,  Digital Adaptation and User Experience Revolution. Finally, he is a prolific writer for numerous publications, including his blog, and regularly speaks internationally.

    On the web
    https://boagworld.com
    On LinkedIn
    paulboag
  • Brad Frost

    Brad Frost

    Brad Frost is a design system consultant, front-end developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. As a principal and design system consultant at Big Medium, he helps teams establish and evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and create better software together. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.

    On the web
    http://bradfrost.com
    On LinkedIn
    bradfrost
  • Manuel Matuzović

    Manuel Matuzović

    Independent Developer & Consultant

    Manuel a freelance frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, writer, and speaker from Vienna, currently living in Graz. He’s passionate about web standards and a strong advocate for progressive enhancement, specializing in web accessibility and large-scale CSS.

    He writes about accessibility, HTML, and CSS on his personal blog matuzo.at and htmhell.dev.

    On the web
    https://matuzo.at
    On LinkedIn
    matuzo
    On Bluesky
    @matuzo.at
    On Mastodon
    front-end.social/@matuzo
  • Rémi Parmentier

    Rémi Parmentier

    Rémi Parmentier is a French front-end developer working at his own small web development agency, Tilt Studio. He loves to learn, and enjoys even more to teach.

    This led him on a joyful quest to understand and demystify HTML emails coding. Rémi runs workshops, gives talks and writes articles on his blog to help others code better HTML emails. Rémi also likes collecting Game Boy consoles and listening to Sufjan Stevens.

    On the web
    http://www.hteumeuleu.com
    On LinkedIn
    remi-parmentier-fr
  • Christine Vallaure

    Christine Vallaure

    Christine Vallaure is the founder of moonlearning.io, a UX, UI Design, and Figma learning platform where design meets code.

    With years of experience working for leading brands, agencies, and startups across Berlin, Mexico City, and London, she is now based in sunny Madrid.

    Christine is passionate about sharing her expertise in web and app design, particularly in the areas where design and technology intersect.

    In addition to creating video tutorials on moonlearning and YouTube, Christine also writes about design and code on her Medium blog, and Twitter, providing insights into the latest developments in the industry.

    On the web
    https://www.moonlearning.io
    On LinkedIn
    christinevallaure
  • Nathan Curtis

    Nathan Curtis

    Founder and design systems consultant at Directed Edges. He’s passionate about information architecture, UX, front-end dev and design systems. He wrote Modular Web Design in 2009, blogs frequently on Medium.com today, and speaks regularly at events worldwide.

    On the web
    https://www.directededges.com
    On LinkedIn
    nathancurtis
  • Samantha Gordashko

    Samantha Gordashko

    Sam is a Design Systems expert with a Design Tokens obsession.

    As part of the Tokens Studio Team, she's made it her mission to flatten the learning curve for designers and engineers to adopt new technologies in the Design Systems space.

    From life-or-death design to genetic testing for psychedelic-assisted therapy, Sam's career as a Design Team of One in tech innovation has given her a unique perspective on ways of working in small teams to build big things. She's known for sharing her pro tips and experiences as Sam I am Designs as a speaker, host of design systems events, and educational content creator.

    On the web
    https://bento.me/samiam
    On LinkedIn
    /in/Sgordashko/
  • Ryan Townsend

    Ryan Townsend

    With 20 years of experience developing for the web, 8 of those years being as a CTO, Ryan Townsend has driven ecommerce growth for his clients measured in the hundreds of millions and now operates a Fractional CTO consultancy under his brand, TWNSND.

    He cares deeply about user experience, particularly web performance, and his pragmatic outlook means that—on the rare occasion that he does wear a shirt—his sleeves stay firmly rolled up: even as an exec, he enjoys getting into the thick of things with product managers and developers.

    Outside of the office, you’ll usually find him in the gym, recording video content for ‘Lessons of a CTO’ and trying not to get too many more points on his driving licence.

    On the web
    https://twnsnd.com
    On LinkedIn
    ryantownsend
  • Marko Dugonjić

    Marko Dugonjić

    Marko Dugonjić is an internationally recognized designer, developer, speaker, author, and workshop coach. Marko and his teams have won multiple international design awards and contributed to the community by open-sourcing multiple solutions and promoting web standards. Marko has edited and co-authored books on UX topics for Smashing Magazine and is a jury panelist at IADAS and AIVA.

    Marko’s 20 years of experience includes engagements with UX teams and executive stakeholders in the public sector and enterprise organizations such as the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), California Community Colleges, MacEwan University, Deutsche Telekom and Croatian Telekom (T-Mobile), REWE Markt GmbH, PayPro Global, Font Bureau, and more.

  • Stéphanie Walter

    Stéphanie Walter

    Stéphanie is a User Researcher and Inclusive Designer who focuses on building user-centered, inclusive and accessible products and services. She spent the last 12+ years helping her clients deliver successful projects in different industries (banking, financial, automotive, healthcare, press, travel, etc.)

    She likes to share her passion for her UX work all around the world. She has taken this beyond her successful blog, conferences and workshops. She discusses a wide range of topics, including mobile UX, enterprise UX, cognitive biases, inclusive design, design process and designer — developer relationship. You can follow her on social media for qualitative curated UX design content.

    On the web
    https://stephaniewalter.design
    On LinkedIn
    stephaniewalterpro