The workshop is intended for intermediate/advanced designers and developers who have an understanding of responsive design and how it works.

Most techniques are borrowed from mid-size and large-scale real-life projects, such as large eCommerce projects, online magazines and web applications. We won’t cover the basics, instead, the workshop covers more advanced — and often obscure and innovative techniques.

In this workshop, we’ll go hands-on into exploring:

• Insights into how people interact with mobile interfaces and what it means for thumb-optimized designs
• Navigation, with accordions, mega-drop-downs, breadcrumbs, carousels and filters,
• Builders and customizers, diving into details of a car configurator and a mobile plan builder,
• Forms, with email verification, password input, country selector, sliders, error validation, incl. public transportation and a banking transaction UI,
• Date pickers, date range picker and a time picker, incl. booking an appointment and booking an airline ticket,
• Calendars, with a multi-track schedule, TV Guide schedule, music festival schedule, exhibition calendar, spreadsheets and dashboard,
• Tables, with a feature comparison table, currency exchange calculator, pricing plans,
• Timelines, with a historical timelines, soccer game signature and live leaderboard and standings,
• Maps / Data Visualization, with a shopping mall map, election map, smart region input.
• Onboarding and offboarding UX for higher conversion and retention rates,
• Search, with autocomplete, filters, search results,
• Audio/Video, with a video player UI and audio-based input,
• Real-time experience with betting UI for soccer, poker and live video streaming,
• Authentication patterns, CAPTCHA and 2-factor-authentication,
• Privacy UX, incl. GDPR cookie consent prompts, push notifications, pop-ups, permissions UX and data management,
• Footnotes and sidenotes in magazine articles,
• Seat selection, for a concert/theatre/exhibition and a perfect airplane check-in,
• Responsive art direction with practical techniques, strategies and examples for less generic solutions,
• Responsive PDF for documents and restaurant menus,
• Offline UX techniques and strategies,
• Design anti-patterns to avoid to prevent running into maintenance issues and “slow UX decay”.

What hardware/software do you need?

You’ll need to bring a lot of creativity with your preferred coffee mug. We’ll be spending a lot of time drawing, sketching, designing and thinking. Laptop is preferred but not absolutely necessary. You’ll need a lot of sleep reserves since it’s going to be a packed day. Bring a lot of attention to detail and non-standard thinking to this one! ;-)

About Vitaly Friedman

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.

Time & Location

This full-day workshop will be hosted at the Fort Mason and will take place the day before SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Monday, November 9th.

Schedule for Monday, November 9th

9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:30 PM – The End

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