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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.

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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

  • Miriam Suzanne

    Miriam Suzanne

    Front-End Developer & Co-Founder at OddBird

    Miriam is an artist, engineer, and open-web advocate. She’s a co-founder of OddBird, Invited Expert on the W3C CSS Working Group, and Sass core contributor who enjoys pushing the boundaries of web technology.

    Miriam co-wrote the CSS specifications for Container Queries, Cascade Layers, and Scope. These days she's developing an in-depth CSS training course, editing even more specifications, and fighting for an open web that respects people over profit.

    On the web
    https://miriam.codes
    On LinkedIn
    terriblemia
    On Bluesky
    @miriam.codes
    On Mastodon
    front-end.social/@mia
  • Samantha Gordashko

    Samantha Gordashko

    Sam is a Freelance Design Systems pro with a Design Tokens obsession.

    You might recognize her under the alias of Sam I am Designs, where she's well known in the design systems industry for making people laugh while she shares pro tips, workflows, and epic fails as a public speaker, host of design systems events, and educational content creator focused on Systems Thinking and Design Tokens.

    These days, Sam works with larger organizations that are scaling their design system, but she's spent most of her career as a "Design Team of One" at various tech innovation startups, working on everything from design tokens tools for designers to life-or-death design to genetic testing for psychedelic-assisted therapy. This range of experience has given her a unique perspective on ways of working in small teams to build big things while helping stakeholders appreciate the value of design processes.

    On the web
    https://samiam.design
    On LinkedIn
    Sgordashko
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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