Speakers
Here’s the list of the big hitters stepping up to the plate for SmashingConf New York! Keep checking back for more exciting reveals and announcements, we’ll be covering all bases with this stellar line up.
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Sara Soueidan
Sara is a freelance front-end web developer from Lebanon — focusing on HTML5, SVG, CSS3 and JavaScript. She loves writing and teaching and has combined both into writing articles and tutorials about front-end web development on her blog. She's a writer for various online magazines and for Codrops, where she is also an author and team member.
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- Building Inclusive Experiences with CSS and SVG
- On the web
- http://sarasoueidan.com/
- On Twitter
- @SaraSoueidan
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Dan Mall
Dan Mall is a designer from Philadelphia, an enthralled husband and new dad, Founder & Design Director at SuperFriendly. He is the co-founder of Typedia, The Businessology Show, and swfIR. He was formerly Design Director at Big Spaceship, Interactive Director at Happy Cog and a technical editor for A List Apart.
Having worked with clients like Google, Lucasfilm, Microsoft, GE, Wrigley, The Mozilla Foundation, Thomson Reuters, and The Sherwin-Williams Company, he has a passion for playing matchmaker between surprising art direction and intuitive interaction design.
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- Til Launch do us Part
- On the web
- http://danielmall.com
- On Twitter
- @danmall
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Sarah Drasner
Sarah is an award-winning Speaker, Sr Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, and Staff Writer at CSS-Tricks. Sarah is also the co-founder of Web Animation Workshops, with Val Head. She’s the author of SVG Animations from O’Reilly and has given Frontend Masters workshops on Vue.js and Advanced SVG Animations. Sarah is formerly Manager of UX Design & Engineering at Trulia (Zillow). Sarah won CSS Dev Conf’s “Best of the Best Award” as well as “Best Code Wrangler” from CSS Design Awards.
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- Serverless Functions and Vue.js
- On the web
- http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com
- On Twitter
- @sarah_edo
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Jason Grigsby
In 2000, Jason Grigsby got his first mobile phone. He became obsessed with how the world could be a better place if everyone had access to the world's information in their pockets. But WAP was crap so he headed back to the desktop web for several years. Now Jason spends far too much time thinking about mobile. Jason is a mobile strategist, co-founder of Cloudfour.com and frequently speaks about mobile technology and strategy.
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- Designing Progressive Web Apps
- On the web
- http://blog.cloudfour.com
- On Twitter
- @grigs
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Tim Kadlec
Tim is a web developer living in northern Wisconsin with his wife and three daughters. He is very passionate about the Web and can frequently be found speaking about what he’s learned at a variety of Web conferences.
He wrote 'Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web' and was a contributing author for the Web Performance Daybook Volume 2.
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- The Long Tail of Performance
- On the web
- http://timkadlec.com
- On Twitter
- @tkadlec
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Monica Dinculescu
Monica works on Magenta, in Google Brain, where she makes generative music and art with Machine Learning. In the past she's worked on Polymer, web components, and Chrome, and has probably at least once broken the Internet for you. She is unreasonably excited about emoji, wary of web fonts, and will become your best friend if you bring her cheese. On second thought, she may be a mouse.
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- Bet you Didn't Think Your Browser Could do That
- On the web
- http://meowni.ca/
- On Twitter
- @notwaldorf
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Paul Boag
Paul Boag has been working on the Web since 1993. He is a user experience strategist who helps companies make use of digital to better serve connected consumers. Paul also hosts the award-winning user experience podcast at boagworld.com. He is a regular speaker at conferences and author of four books including Digital Adaptation, as well as User Experience Revolution.
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- Encouraging Clicks - How to Encourage Action Without Alienating People
- On the web
- http://boagworld.com
- On Twitter
- @boagworld
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Chiara Aliotta
Chiara is an Italian award-winning designer with many years of experience as an art director and brand consultant. Chiara has worked with brands like Joomla, NH Hotels, Osram, and many others.
She has also directed the overall artistic look and feel of different tech companies and not-for-profit organisations around the world, ensuring that their communication followed the established vision and mission.
When she is not busy designing innovative products for her clients, you can find her capturing typography in the city with her camera, or spending her free time at home with a book, snuggling with her cat, Kissa.
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- The Shape of Thoughts
- On the web
- http://untilsunday.it/
- On Twitter
- @ChiaraAliotta
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Josh Clark
Josh Clark is founder of Big Medium, a design agency specializing in connected devices, mobile experiences, and responsive web design. His clients include Samsung, Time Inc, TechCrunch, Entertainment Weekly, eBay, O’Reilly Media, and many others. Josh has written several books, including “Designing for Touch” (A Book Apart, 2015) and “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps” (O’Reilly, 2010). He speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces.
Before the internet swallowed him up, Josh was a producer of national PBS programs at Boston’s WGBH. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. In 1996, he created the uberpopular “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for software user experience: no pain, no pain.)
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- Design in the Era of the Algorithm
- On the web
- https://bigmedium.com
- On Twitter
- @bigmediumjosh
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Michael Flarup
Michael is a Danish designer & entrepreneur. He runs entertainment studio Northplay, Pixelresort and design resource platform Apply Pixels. He’s got a treasure-trove of experience creating his own companies, leading teams of developers and designers and working on countless of succesful products, games and services.
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- Designing for Augmented Reality
- On the web
- http://flarup.com
- On Twitter
- @flarup
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Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. From Minsk in Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany, discovered the passage a passion for typography, writing and design. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine, an online magazine for web designers and developers. Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books.
He currently experiences issues describing what he does for living, but most of the time working with Smashing Cats, books, speakers and mid-size to large-scale consultancy projects in front-end and UX. Currently residing in the beautiful city of Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- New Adventures in Front-End
- On the web
- https://smashingmagazine.com
- On Twitter
- @smashingmag
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Debbie Millman
Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters.
As the founder and host of Design Matters, one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts, Millman has interviewed over 400 artists, designers and cultural commentators.
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- Why We Brand, Why We Buy
- On the web
- http://www.debbiemillman.com/
- On Twitter
- @debbiemillman
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The Mystery Speaker
Can you guess who is going to be the Mystery Speaker this time?
- Talk
- And So The Mystery Begins...
- On the web
- /assets/images/mystery-smashingconf.png
- On Twitter
- @...
