Speakers
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
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Kevin Powell
Kevin is a CSS evangelist and educator whose primary goal is to help people fall in love with CSS and, failing that, to at least help them be a little less frustrated by it.
He is best known for his YouTube channel, where he posts weekly educational videos that, he hopes, help both inspire and empower people to improve at CSS.
- On the web
- https://www.kevinpowell.co/
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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
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Guthrie Weinschenk
Guthrie Weinschenk is a Behavioral Economist and the COO of The Team W, Inc. He has a degree in Economics, a law degree, and is a licensed attorney. He consults on Behavioral Science and Behavioral Economics, teaches workshops and gives keynote speeches at business and design conferences.
Guthrie is the author of I Love You, Now Read This Book. (It's About Human Decision Making and Behavioral Economics). His clients include Saatchi and Saatchi, CustomInk, BrandTrust, the Big Design conference, and the Internet User Experience conference. Guthrie is also the host of the Human Tech podcast and writes and video blogs for the Team W website.
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Susan Weinschenk
Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and the CEO at The Team W, Inc. She is a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, governments and non-profits. Dr. Weinschenk is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, and How to Get People to Do Stuff.
Her clients include Disney, Zappos, Western Governor’s University, the European Union, Discover Financial, and United Health Care. Dr. Weinschenk is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin, and writes two popular blogs — one at the Team W website and “Brain Wise: Work better, work smarter” for Psychology Today.
- On the web
- https://theteamw.com
- On LinkedIn
- susanweinschenk
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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
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Christine Vallaure
Founder of Moonlearning
Christine Vallaure is the founder of moonlearning.io, a learning platform for UI, Figma and Product Building with AI. She’s also the author of theSolo.io, a practical guide to building and growing digital products independently, and a regular speaker at design and tech conferences.
Christine is deeply invested in bridging the gap between design and development, creating content and tools that help both sides work better together with more clarity, curiosity, and collaboration.
With over a decade of experience working with startups, agencies, and global brands across Berlin, Mexico City, and London, Christine now calls Madrid home. As a solo founder and creator, she’s passionate about the growing wave of independent builders who are rethinking how digital products are made, from the tools we use to the way we work.
- On the web
- https://www.moonlearning.io
- On LinkedIn
- christinevallaure
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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
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Stephanie Eckles
Senior Design Engineer at Adobe Spectrum CSS team
Stephanie Eckles is a Senior Design Engineer for Adobe Spectrum CSS and a member of the CSSWG. She's also the author of ModernCSS.dev, which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth articles, and is the creator of StyleStage.dev, and author of SmolCSS.dev and 11ty.Rocks.
Steph has 15+ years of webdev experience that she enjoys sharing as an author, workshop instructor, and conference speaker. She's an advocate for accessibility, scalable CSS, and web standards. Offline, she's mom to two girls and enjoys baking and watercolor painting.
- On the web
- https://thinkdobecreate.com
- On LinkedIn
- stepheckles
- On Mastodon
- front-end.social/@5t3ph
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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
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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://bento.me/samiam
- On LinkedIn
- Sgordashko
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Joe Natoli
Joe Natoli has spent more than 30 years helping UX and product teams in large enterprises, government agencies and global organizations turn chaos into clarity — and friction into collaboration. He’s the founder of the UX 365 Academy and has taught over 400,000 students. He’s authored the bestselling books Think First and The User Experience Team of One (with Leah Buley). And most importantly, he’s a trusted partner to thousands of designers, product managers, engineers and executives around the world.
Joe has built three decades of career success on a straightforward, practical approach — no jargon, no fluff, no dogma — that helps people succeed in the real-world conditions no one prepares UXers and Designers for.
- On the web
- https://givegoodux.com/
- On LinkedIn
- joenatoli