This upcoming September, SmashingConf Freiburg will be taking place on Smashing Magazine's 10th birthday and, well, we definitely wouldn't want to celebrate it all alone.
Freiburg is the smallest of all our conferences; this means a super-friendly atmosphere right at the foothills of the magical Black Forest, but also not that many seats! So, are you ready to celebrate with us?
About The Conference
Trends don't matter, but techniques do. With another friendly, intimate conference in our lovely hometown, we want to explore real-life web design problems and techniques that are relevant and applicable to your work straight away. Some things never change: single track, 2 packed days, 3 workshops, 15 speakers and 260 available seats.
The conference will be taking place on September 12–13th 2016 at the Historic Merchants' Hall, built 1520-30 in a little German town Freiburg im Breisgau, at the foothills of the legendary Black Forest. This is where our conferences started off, and this is why this place is so special to our hearts.
This is not your regular kind of conference. Because it's our birthday, expect a few special surprises, magic shows, circus performance and chocolate fountains. Well, kinda. ;-)
Speakers
What's a good birthday party without good ol' friends? We've invited respected, experienced designers and developers working on small and large projects. You might know some of them, but probably not all of them. Get ready, set, go!
- • Dave Rupert
Real-Life Responsive Web Design • Paravel - • Monica Dinculescu
The Science Behind Emoji, and How We Can Use Them On The Web • Google - • Lyza D. Gardner
Service Workers • Cloud Four - • Adrian Holovaty
HTML5 Canvas + Performance + RWD • Soundslice - • Una Kravets
Editing Images in CSS • IBM Design - • Sarah Drasner
SVG Animations • Trulia - • TBA
- • Aaron Gustafson
TBA • Microsoft
Monday, Sept. 12th
Tuesday, Sept. 13th
- • Mystery Speaker
(Someone you definitely know, and respect) - • Paul Lloyd
Responsive Principles • Guardian - • Denys Mishunov
Deconstructing Performance - • Nathan Curtis
Design Systems • Eightshapes - • Polle de Maagt
Crafting for #worlddomination - • Eva-Lotta Lamm
UX Sketching - • Oliver Reichenstein
Information Entropy • Information Architects
We've put aside 50 early-bird tickets for our subscribers for $349 / €309, and if you book a workshop, too, you'll save €90 off the conference + workshop price. That pretty smashing, isn't it?
Why This Conference Is For You
Our conferences are designed to provide practical value to everybody involved. No theory, no assumptions: just things that worked (or failed) in real-life projects, and why. You'll learn:
- Strategies for building fast responsive websites,
- Clever front-end techniques for better interfaces,
- Techniques and guidelines for better and faster sketching,
- How to architect scalable design systems.
- Advanced front-end and UX workflow and setup,
- Techniques for better animation with SVG,
- Mistakes and lessons learned from large projects,
- Responsive design patterns for future-ready websites,
- How to architect viral marketing campaigns,
- How to tackle complexity when building a delightful, responsive user experience.
Freiburg Workshops
Have you figured out responsive design, designing for phablets and TVs, pattern libraries, SVG, flexbox, performance, HTTP/2 — and all of the other mischievous, erratic facets of designing for the web today? We haven’t either! That’s why we're hosting our hands-on full-day workshops, with techniques and strategies by leaders of our industry. If you're buying a conference + workshop ticket together, you'll save $100!
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UX Sketching by Eva-Lotta Lamm Sept. 14th • Being able to sketch is like speaking an additional language that enables you to structure and express your thoughts and ideas more clearly, quickly and in a engaging way. For anyone working in UX, design, marketing and product development in general, sketching is a valuable technique to feel comfortable with. Read more… -
Modular Design Systems by Nathan Curtis Sept. 14th • The role of design with large organizations is expanding, spreading across product teams and influencing decision-making at higher and higher levels. This scale makes it increasingly challenging to align designers and product teams to deliver cohesive, consistent experiences across a customer journey. Read more… -
Smart RWD Patterns by Vitaly Friedman Sept. 14th • In this full-day workshop, Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, will present practical techniques, clever tricks and useful strategies you need to be aware of when working on any responsive design project. Most techniques are borrowed from mid-size and large-scale real-life projects, such as large e-commerce projects, online magazines and Web applications. Read more…
Download The “Convince Your Boss” PDF!
We’ve also prepared a neat “Convince Your Boss PDF” sheet (PDF, 0.15 MB) that you can use to convince your boss, colleagues, friends, neighbors and total strangers to join you or send you to the event. We know you will not be disappointed. Still not good enough? Well, tweet us @smashingconf — we can be quite convincing!
Code of Conduct
We embrace respect and tolerance with our code of conduct. Be friendly, be cool, and be smashing to each other. Networking is important, and we always organize many networking activities starting from Monday, but we will not tolerate any kind of disrespectful behavior. There’s no room for it at the conference. Fullstop.
Sponsors, Dear Sponsors
We pour our heart and soul into creating a friendly, memorable and inspiring community event for everybody involved. Our goal is a valuable community event with practical talks, neatly packed with a lot of learning, sharing and networking opportunities.
We keep ticket prices affordable for everyone, and we're happy to welcome sponsors to help us make the conference smashing in every possible way. If you're interested in sponsoring the event, please drop an email to Mariona at mac@smashingconf.com. We’d love for you to be involved!
See You In Freiburg!
We look forward to blowing out the candles with you in Freiburg this year — get ready for some smashing surprises and a smashing birthday cake that will be one in a lifetime!