Smashing Conference (Oct. 2017): Get $100 Off

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Smashing Conference (Oct. 2017): Get $100 Off

As guest authors for Smashing Magazine, we’re pretty excited to share some cool news about their upcoming conference in Barcelona.

Smashing Conference is an in-person extension of the practical content we read on their site. Based on their speaker lineup and topics, the multidisciplinary conference explores UX and front-end development case studies:

Design and development collaboration
Best practices for front-end development
Mobile design and development
Evangelizing UX design

An image from SmashingConf in Barcelona 2016. Image Credit: Alessio Carone

What’s it about?

A big proponent of collaboration and networking, Smashing Conference aims for an intimate and comfortable experience. No fancy suits, impersonal halls, just useful content with like-minded designers and developers.

Smashing Conference 2016.

They’re bringing together experienced folks to share front-end and UX techniques and the pitfalls they ran into, lessons learned, and efficient workflows.

This year’s topics in Barcelona include:

How to improve the perceived performance
Where and how to use SVGs
Accessibility For Everyone
Responsive Design
Emoji integration
Design systems

When is it?

October 17-18, 2017.

Who’s speaking?

This year’s 15 speakers include:

Brad Frost – Author of the book Atomic Design, co-host of the Style Guides Podcast, he has also helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, and WTF Mobile Web.

Stephanie Walter – A Web Designer, Pixel & CSS lover, she focuses on designing for user experience on mobile and web applications and Responsive Webdesign. She also teaches courses on Mobile design and optimization and HTML & CSS for beginners at the University of Strasbourg.

Sarah Drasner – A web developer and designer, with a history in as a Scientific Illustrator and an Undergraduate Professor. She’s an award-winning Manager of UX Design & Engineering at Trulia and staff writer at CSS-Tricks.

Monica Dincluescu – An emojineer at Google, she works on Chrome, web components, and Polymer.
Anton and Irene – Creators of interactive experiences for many large scale clients and projects, under which the redesign of USAToday.com, Metmuseum.org, Zumtobel.us, Balenciaga.com, Wacom.com and SportsIllustrated.com. They’re also the creators smaller projects, apps and experiments for clients like Shantell Martin, Karim Rashid, Google, Nickelodeon, Porsche and Red Bull.

Marcy Sutton – A Web Platform Award winner for her work in accessibility, she works on web accessibility tools at Deque Systems, a company focused on digital equality.

Paul Boag – User experience strategist who helps companies make use of digital to better serve connected consumers. He hosts the award-winning user experience podcast at boagworld.com and is the author of four books including Digital Adaptation and User Experience Revolution.

Where is it?

In Barcelona at the Palau de la Música Catalana, one of Barcelona’s most magnificent buildings, built from 1905 to 1908.