On Failures And Successes: Meet SmashingConf Freiburg 2018

You are here:

Vitaly Friedman

2018-04-24T12:00:09+02:00
2018-04-24T12:41:01+00:00

Everybody loves speaking about successes, but nobody can succeed without failing big time along the way. It’s through mistakes that we grow and get smarter. So for the upcoming SmashingConf Freiburg 2018 (Sept. 10–11), we want to put these stories into focus for a change and explore practical techniques and strategies learned in real projects — the hard way. Aarron Walter, Josh Clark, Tammy Everts, Morten Rand-Hendriksen & many others. Sept 10–11. Early-Birds are available now →

One track, two days, honest talks, live sessions, and a handful of practical workshops. That’s SmashingConf Freiburg 2018! Excited yet?

The night before the conference we’ll be hosting a FailNight — a warm-up party with a twist. Every session will be highlighting how we all failed on a small or big scale, and what we all can learn from it. With talks from the community, for the community. Sounds like fun? Well, it will be!

Speakers

As usual, one track, two conference days (Sept. 10–11), 12 speakers, and just 260 available seats. The conference will cover everything from efficient design workflow to design systems and copywriting, multi-cultural designs, designing for mobile and other fields that may come up in your day-to-day work.

First confirmed speakers include:

Design for Machine Learning
Josh Clark (Big Medium)
Frontend Performance
Tammy Everts (SpeedCurve)
Design Systems
Aarron Walter (Invision)
Good/Bad UX Writing Patterns
Andrea Drugay (Dropbox)
CSS Grid
Morten Rand-Hendriksen (Lynda)
UX Research
Hannah Pileggi (Airbnb)
JS Animation
Seb Lee-Delisle (PixelPyros)
Designing For Global Audiences
ChuiChui Tan (Beyō Global)
Finding Focus
Craig Mod
Mystery Speaker

Somebody you definitely know, and respect.

Aarron Walter and Tammy Everts are two of the first confirmed speakers.

Conference
Conf + Workshop

Conference Tickets

€499Get Your Ticket

Two days of great speakers and networking
Check all speakers →

Conf + Workshop Tickets

Save €100 Conf + Workshop

Three days full of learning and networking
Check all workshops →

Workshops At SmashingConf Freiburg

Our workshops give you the opportunity to spend a full day on the topic of your choice. Tickets for the full-day workshops cost €399. If you buy a workshop ticket in combination with a conference ticket, you’ll save €100 on the regular workshop ticket price. Seats are limited

Workshops on Wednesday, September 12th

Josh Clark’s “Design For What’s Next”

…

Seb Lee-Delisle’s “JavaScript Graphics And Animation”

…

Vitaly Friedman’s “Dirty Little Tricks From The Dark Corners Of eCommerce”

…

Location

As always, the Historical Merchants’ Hall located right in the heart of our hometown Freiburg will be the home of SmashingConf Freiburg. First mentioned in 1378 and having retained its present-day form since 1520, the “Kaufhaus” is a symbol of the importance of trade in medieval Freiburg, and, well, its beautiful architecture still blows our audience away each year anew.

The “Kaufhaus” (Historical Merchants’ Hall) will be our Freiburg venue also this time around. (Image credit: John Davey)

Why This Conference Could Be For You

Each SmashingConf is a friendly and intimate experience. A cozy get-together of likeminded people who share their stories, their ideas, their hard-learned lessons. At SmashingConf Freiburg you will learn how to:

Use production-ready CSS Grid layouts,

Performance audits,

Recognize, revise, and resolve dark patterns and misleading copy in your own products,

Design and build a product with a global audience in mind,

Extract action-oriented insights from real user data,

Create better e-commerce experiences,

Create responsible machine-learning applications,

Get leading design right,

… and a lot more.

Download “Convince Your Boss” PDF

You need to convince your boss to send you to Freiburg? No worries, we’ve prepared a neat Convince Your Boss PDF that you can use to tip the scales in your favor. Fingers crossed.

Diversity And Inclusivity

SmashingConfs are a safe, friendly place. We care about diversity and inclusivity at our events and don’t tolerate any disrespect. We also provide student and diversity tickets.

See You In Freiburg!

We’d love you to join us for two memorable days, lots of learning, sharing, and inspiring conversations with friendly people, of course. See you there!

(ms, cm, il)