Smashing Conference Toronto 2018
2018-06-26..2018-06-27
Toronto, Canada
[Smashing Conference London 2018, Smashing Conference San Francisco 2018, Smashing Conference Toronto 2018, Smashing Conference Freiburg 2018, Smashing Conference New York 2018]
who it's for
front-end developers, product designers, UX designers, design systems engineers, accessibility specialists, performance engineers, creative directors
topics
CSS variables and architecture; SVG animation workflow; JavaScript graphics and animation; live performance auditing; third-party resource auditing; accessibility audits; icon fonts to SVG workflow; pattern library driven CSS; data visualization design; lettering and type as art; cross-cultural design considerations; sketching for UI ideation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The First Minutes of Design | Dan Mall | |
How do you start from nothing but requirements into something tangible? In this session, Dan Mall will explore and expose the nuances of one of the most… | ||
| CSS (Variable) Secrets | Lea verou | 45m |
You may have heard about CSS Variables (aka CSS Custom Properties), but think it’s not something you can use yet. Plus, you already have your preprocessor… | ||
| Building an SVG Animation from Start to Finish | Sarah Drasner | 44m |
In this talk, Sarah will start with only an Illustrator document and by the end, make it move! It's not clear what exactly will move and how- this is something… | ||
| Performance Audit (Live) | Tim Kadlec | 45m |
Tim will be looking into a workflow for finding and dealing with performance bottlenecks and explore common performance problems appearing in websites and… | ||
| Applying Psychology And 13 Years Of UX To Get The Details Right And Leapfrog The Competition | Joe Leech | 41m |
Mr Joe will take you on journey, showing how to take an average website and make it exceptional. Joe will talk through a framework for looking at the… | ||
| on You can sketch. (You might just not know it yet.) | Eva-Lotta Lamm | 45m |
Sketching is a great tool for designers (well, actually for anyone who needs to think about complex problems and communicate with others) to have in their… | ||
| Designing Across Cultures | Yiying Lu | 51m |
In this talk, Yiying Lu will share her 10 years of cross-cultural design practice for global brands such as Disney, Twitter, Wasabi Warriors and so on. She… | ||
| Things That Don't Have A Thing To Do With Graphic Design | Aaron Draplin | |
As a graphic designer, I'm lucky to make things for all kinds of things. But more and more, I'm realizing the profound impact it has on the things in the rest… | ||
| Third-Party Performance Auditing | Harry Roberts | 53m |
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| From Icon Fonts To SVG; Workflow, Tools, Techniques And Everything In Between | Sara Soueidan | |
Many teams still find themselves struggling to make the switch from icon fonts to SVG. SVG icon systems seem more complex and require a different workflow. But… | ||
| Accessibility Audit (Live) | Marcy Sutton Todd | 47m |
In this “this-is-how-I-work” session, Marcy Sutton will conduct an accessibility audit on the fly. You’ll get a feel for how to detect and resolve… | ||
| Beyond Fonts, Elevating Lettering to Art | Gemma O’Brien | |
Join Australian artist Gemma O’Brien for a step-by-step look at her process of creating lettering for large-scale murals. From collecting inspiration… | ||
| Creating An Effective & Beautiful Data Visualization From Scratch | Nadieh Bremer | 50m |
The amount of data that is being gathered in the world is only growing. And since humans are visual beings we need to see the data to understand patterns… | ||
| Pattern Library First, An Approach For Managing CSS | Rachel Andrew | 54m |
Organising CSS in a project can be tricky, especially if you want to create fallbacks for newer CSS such as Grid Layout, fallbacks which can rely on your CSS… | ||
| JavaScript Graphics and Animation (live) | Seb Lee-Delisle | 46m |
In this talk, Seb will demonstrate a variety of beautiful visual effects using JavaScript and HTML5 | ||
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