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Smashing Conference San Francisco 2018

front-end developers, product designers, UX researchers, design leads, performance engineers, accessibility specialists

CSS Grid layout; design systems pitfalls; modern loading best practices; vertical writing on the web; cross-cultural UX design; interface psychology techniques; web performance optimization; progressive enhancement strategies; pixel projection and precision; product redesign case studies

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How Being A Graphic Designer Helped Me Through StuffAaron Draplin
As a graphic designer, I'm lucky to make stuff for all kinds of stuff. But more and more, I'm realizing the profound impact it has on the stuff in the rest of…
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Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid LayoutRachel Andrew52m
Once you have grasped the basics of CSS Grid, you quickly discover how it enables many existing design patterns in a streamlined, elegant way. However, we…
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Redesigning SlackMina Markham
In this talk, Mina will be highlighting the struggles, the solutions and the workflow when redesigning and rebuilding Slack, and specifically how the team uses…
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Designing Powerful User Experiences With PsychologyJoe Leech51m
What do an overnight 40% drop in road accidents, a night in on the couch watching TV and a good night’s sleep have to do with digital product design? Humans…
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Name That Script!Trent Walton43m
How many third-party scripts are loading on our web pages these days? How can we objectively measure the value of these (advertising, a/b testing, analytics…
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Fast By Default, Modern Loading Best PracticesAddy Osmani
Optimizing sites to load instantly on mobile is far from trivial. Costly JavaScript can take seconds to process, we often aren't sensitive to users data-plans…
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Cross Cultural Design in the Age of GlobalizationYiying Lu57m
In this talk, award-winning creative director Yiying Lu will share her 10 years of cross-cultural design practice for global brands and businesses such as…
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The Ugly Truth of Design SystemsMark Boulton52m
There is a growing myth in the web industry. We’re facing challenges on several fronts, there aren’t enough designers, Wall Street demands ever increasing…
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Beyond Media QueriesMike Riethmuller51m
Media queries have always been a cornerstone of responsive design but the role of media queries is changing. It's now possible to make websites with responsive…
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Approaching Pixels And ProjectionsKate Dawkins
Kate Dawkins has projected onto a floor of ice, the ceiling of the London Design Museum, the bridge of the USS intrepid in NY and put content onto the smallest…
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Our Everyday Relationships with Digital InterfacesClaudio Guglieri
Home, understood as “the place where one lives permanently as a member of a household” is no longer a physical space for a vast group of people. Many of us…
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Vertical Writing On The WebChen Hui Jing45m
In the multi-cultural region of Southeast Asia, writing systems go in all directions, in books and newspapers, store-fronts and signage. The digital world…
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Design in the Era of the AlgorithmJosh Clark51m
The design and presentation of data is just as important as the underlying algorithm, and designers have an urgent role to play in crafting the emerging…
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