Workshops
Conference sessions are one thing, but full-day hands-on workshops are an entirely different beast. On the day before and on the day after the conference, you can dive deep into your topic of interest: be it Smart Responsive UX Design Patterns or Next Steps With CSS Layout.
Join one of the hands-on workshops with a limited number of seats. Tickets for the full-day workshops cost $499 — all booking fees included.
If you buy a combo ticket, you will save USD 100 and get access to three days of world-class of workshop learning and our Smashing conference experience.
Workshops include…
- Snacks and drinks during the whole day
- Tea and coffee
- Lunch
- Paper and pen/pencil
There’s more content in this 1 day SVG workshop than in some 3 day courses. Brilliant job @SaraSoueidan! #smashingconf
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The Deque Team
Free Workshop: How To Translate Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 15
There’s more than one way to code a web design, but the choices we make in the process of translating a wireframe into web content have a huge impact on the accessibility of that content. -
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Sara Soueidan
Accessible UI Patterns
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 15
Accessibility doesn’t have to be hard or time-consuming. Once you learn how to think and code inclusively, writing accessible markup becomes second nature, and part of your everyday coding workflow. In this workshop you will learn how to build UI components with inclusivity baked right into them from the start. -
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Rachel Andrew
Next Steps With CSS Layout
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 15
In this workshop you’ll explore the new features available for CSS Layout with CSS Working Group Invited Expert Rachel Andrew. Learn the emerging best practices for using Grid and Flexbox. Discover how to support browsers without support, and ensure that our new powers don’t lead to us causing accessibility problems. -
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Vitaly Friedman
New Front-End Adventures, 2019 Edition
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 15
With HTTP/2, Service Workers, Progressive Web Apps, Variable Fonts, CSS Custom Properties, Responsive Images, Flexbox, CSS Grid Layout, SVG, WAI-ARIA roles and Font Loading API now available in browsers, we all are still trying to figure out just the right strategy for designing and buildings responsive websites efficiently. We want to use all of these technologies and smart processes like atomic design, but how can we use them efficiently, and how do we achieve it within a reasonable amount of time? -
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Jason Pamental
Building Responsive, And Dynamic Typographic Systems—Even Better With Variable Fonts
Full-day workshop • Monday, April 15
This workshop is intended to provide a brief introduction to the concepts of responsive typography and variable fonts (a new development in type technology). -
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Brad Frost
The Design System Process
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 18
Design systems and provide solid ground for us to stand on as we tackle the increasingly diverse and fast-moving digital landscape. However, like most things in our field, the hard part of design systems isn’t specific design tools or code frameworks; it’s wrangling people and all their quirks. This full-day session will cover the process of creating a successful design system. -
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Katie Sylor-Miller
Git To The Next Level
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 18
Git, the widely popular version control tool that just about everyone who works on the web seems to use, is powerful, scalable, flexible… and difficult to learn. Even if you use Git every day, you’ve probably gotten yourself into some confusing, frustrating, or downright terrifying situations. Don’t panic, You are not alone! -
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Miriam Suzanne
Advanced CSS & Sass For Modern Applications
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 18
From building beautiful sites, to maintaining complex design systems across applications, CSS is the web-language of design. Like all web languages, Cascading Style Sheets have come a long way since their early inception – providing powerful and dynamic tools for cross-browser and cross-device interface design. -
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Vitaly Friedman
Smart Responsive UX Design Patterns
Full-day workshop • Thursday, April 18
Are you ready for a design challenge? In this brand new workshop, Vitaly Friedman, co-founder and creative lead of Smashing Magazine, will be taking a microscopic examination of common interface components and problems appearing in responsive user interfaces. In this workshop, we’ll be spending an entire day drawing and designing responsive interfaces, starting from accordions, to date/time pickers, sliders, feature comparisons, car configurators all the way to insurance calculators and trip planners.
