CategorySmashingConf

February 3, 2020 — SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, Rachel Andrew brings you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance. Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018. Read more…

January 21, 2020 — SmashingConf is coming to Austin! In this post, Rachel Andrew gives you a rundown of what you can expect and shares a video interview with Miriam Suzanne who will be sharing the stage with the rest of the brilliant SmashingConf Austin speakers! Read more…

November 14, 2019 — In these two videos (a webinar recorded for our Smashing Members and a presentation from SmashingConf Freiburg), Rachel Andrew invites you to discover all the tips and tricks you need to help you design HTML emails. Follow along as Rémi Parmentier shares what he knows about taming email clients. Read more…

November 12, 2019 — The video from SmashingConf New York is ready to share. If you didn’t manage to get a ticket, this post should give you a feel for what happened. Rachel Andrew rounds up the event with all the video, photos and memories of the fun we had together in New York. We also have the video of the presentations to share with you. Read more…

October 1, 2019 — We had a lovely time at SmashingConf Freiburg. In this post, Rachel Andrew wrappes up the event, including links to the video of all of the presentations, so you can relive what you enjoyed — or share in something of what you missed. Read more…

September 27, 2019 — It’s official! Next year, we’ll be organizing a SmashingConf in each of these cities: San Francisco, Freiburg, New York and Austin! We’re planning to build on the success and the things we have learned in 2019, so that we can bring you a practical two days of learning — with plenty of fun and surprises along the way! Read more…

August 8, 2019 — It’s hard to capture the experience of being at a SmashingConf, however, Rachel Andrew brings you the videos from our Toronto event. They are available so that everyone can learn from the insights our speakers shared — many of them coding live on stage. Read more…

July 11, 2019 — Now that some time has passed since the team returned from SmashingConf Toronto, we’ve had time to think about the event and wrap up some of the things we all learned. Take a look. We asked everyone to read and follow our Code Of Conduct, try to create a range of spaces and activities where people can meet like-minded people, and also encourage everyone to follow “The Pac-Man Rule” when standing in a group. Read more…

November 2, 2018 — At Smashing Conferences, we don’t big up speakers to be Idols On A Pedestal — they’re developers just like the audience, who happen to have solved a problem that we think others face, so share that knowledge. In this post, Bruce Lawson brings you the newest member of the Smashing Team — Bruce Lawson — looks back on a successful Smashing Conf NY. Read more…

October 17, 2018 — At SmashingConf Toronto, attendees got to participate in live performance and accessibility audits with our speakers Marcy Sutton and Tim Kadlec. Marcy took two example components, built using React, and walked us through how these components could be made more accessible with some straightforward changes, and Tim demonstrates how to test the performance of a site, and find bottlenecks leading to poor experiences for visitors. Watching an expert assess these critical areas can help you to perform your own audits. Read more…