CategoryConferences

July 11, 2023 — In this article, Andy Budd, curator of UX London and Leading Design conferences, outlines some of the things that make a potentially amazing presentation, as well as a few big gotchas. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to get a speaking slot at a conference, this article is for you. Read more…

August 27, 2020 — The SmashingConf team had such fun at their first SmashingConf Live! event last week. In this post, editor-in-chief Rachel Andrew shares highlights and feedback from the online conference. Read more…

July 14, 2020 — We’re moving all of the 2020 conferences online. We hope this means that more of you can join us for these great line-ups! All of our online conference events will take place on the Hopin platform. We roadtested this platform for our Smashing Meets, and we love the way it allows for social chat and side events alongside the main conference. It’s as close as we can get to an in-person experience. Read more…

May 29, 2020 — In this post, Rachel Andrew looks back at our successful Smashing Meets, A free event across two days and many timezones, with three speakers each day and plenty of chance for attendees to chat and ask questions of the speakers. Toady, she considers how we will take everything we learned to make our Smashing Live conference even better. Read more…

May 14, 2020 — Smashing Meets is a friendly, inclusive, online meetup for people who work on the web. We focus on front-end and UX, but cover all sorts of topics from performance to accessibility. We organize Smashing Meets together with some amazing communities from around the world. Join us for Smashing Meets — two free online meetups with speakers, activities, and plenty of chances to make new friends. Just like a real meetup, though you’ll need to bring your own pizza. Read more…

May 5, 2020 — The cat is out of the bag! Meet SmashingConf Live (Aug 20–21), our very first online conference. For SmashingConf Live, our new online conference, we don’t want to replicate in-person experiences online. Instead, we’ve designed an entirely new conference experience, focusing around interactive live sessions and discussion zones where you actively shape what happens next, and learn along the way. Read more…

April 30, 2020 — As we have now formalized our workshop process, we thought we’d share a little more about how these events run. Unlike in-person workshops where we keep you in a room for an eight hour day, we realized than many of you have a lot of other commitments right now.  Our initial online workshops went so well, we have scheduled many more. Find out how what we learned from those first workshops and what we have coming up over the next two months. Read more…

March 23, 2020 — With so many people — including our workshop leaders — working from home, we thought we would bring our Smashing workshops from our home offices to yours. We hope we can help you continue to learn and interact with the speakers and each other, and also help out our workshop leaders who are losing income by being unable to run their workshops in person right now. Read more…

March 12, 2020 — We are sad to have to reschedule SmashingConf SF, however we are working to find ways to be with our community virtually until we can all meet up again. Read more…

February 28, 2020 — Conferences are about gathering information and knowledge but are also opportunities to meet and learn from other like-minded folks in the web design community. Plus, you’ll be exposed to a lot of new information, which will help you advance in your career. Let’s dive into our list for January to December. Jan Constantin will keep updating this list, so make sure to bookmark this page and check it every once in a while! Read more…