Speakers
Here’s the list of the big hitters stepping up to the plate for SmashingConf San Francisco! Keep checking back for more exciting reveals and announcements, we’ll be covering all bases with this stellar line up.
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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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- Proper Etiquette for the Advancement of Design
- On the web
- http://danielmall.com
- On Twitter
- @danielmall
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Una Kravets
Una is a front end developer on the IBM Design team in Austin, TX. She blogs, illustrates, is a core member of the Open Design Foundation, and started the DC and Austin Sass Meetups.
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- Photoshop is Dead!: Editing Images in CSS
- On the web
- http://una.im/
- On Twitter
- @una
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Mark Boulton
Mark is a typographic designer and a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers; author of Designing for the Web and Web Standards Creativity; co-creator of Gridset; and was a founding partner of indie publisher, Five Simple Steps.
Mark is the Design Director at Monotype following the acquisition of his small design studio, Mark Boulton Design. Previously, Mark Boulton Design worked with global media companies such as ESPN and Al Jazeera; small brands with big stories like Hiut Denim; technology organisations such as Drupal and Alfresco; and home to the greatest scientific experiment on earth, CERN.
Living in Wales with his wife and two small children, Mark likes nothing more than riding up hills on his bike, trying to cook Japanese food, and consistently moaning about the design of bathroom taps.
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- Design Systems in Difficult Places
- On the web
- http://www.markboultondesign.com/
- On Twitter
- @markboulton
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Alla Kholmatova
Alla is an interaction designer at an open education startup, FutureLearn. She's interested in how design relates to other disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, and architecture. Alla is an occasional contributor to design publications, such as A List Apart, and an owner of several vintage robots.
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- Atoms, Modules and Other Fancy Particles: Building a Pattern Language For The Web
- On the web
- www.craftui.com
- On Twitter
- @craftui
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Ilya Grigorik
Ilya Grigorik is a web performance engineer and developer advocate at Google, where his focus is on making the web fast and driving adoption of performance best practices.
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- Yesterday's perf best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns
- On the web
- https://www.igvita.com/
- On Twitter
- @igrigorik
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Harry Roberts
With a client list including Google, the United Nations, and Unilever, Harry is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs.
He writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.
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- CSS for Software Engineers for CSS Developers
- On the web
- http://csswizardry.com/
- On Twitter
- @csswizardry
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Susan Weinschenk
Susan has a Ph.D. in Psychology and over 30 years of experience as a behavioral psychologist. Her clients call her “The Brain Lady” because she applies research on brain science to predict, understand, and explain what motivates people and how they behave. Dr. Weinschenk is the author of several books, including How To Get People To Do Stuff, 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, and Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?
Dr. Weinschenk consults, teaches, and mentors individuals and teams on the design of websites, software, medical devices, TV ads, physical devices, experiences, and physical spaces to make them persuasive, usable and motivating. She writes a popular blog at theteamw.com, and also the Brain Wise: Work better, work smarter blog for Psychology Today.
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Tom Giannattasio
Tom has 20 years of experience designing and developing for the web. He founded Macaw, creator of a code-based design tool, which was recently acquired by InVision. Tom is now helping InVision create advanced design and prototyping tools. Tom has also done work for Apple, Oracle, Twitter, MIT, AIGA and National Geographic.
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- Beyond the browser
- On the web
- https://www.invisionapp.com
- On Twitter
- @attasi
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Jina Bolton
Jina Bolton is a Senior Product Designer at Salesforce UX, where she helps design and develop systems for enterprise software. She also loves Sass; she leads Team Sass Design, an open source task force that redesigned the Sass brand and website. Jina also organizes the San Francisco Sass Meet Up, The Mixin. She coauthored two books, Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS. Previously, she has worked with rad companies including Apple, Engine Yard, and Crush + Lovely.
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- Living Design Systems
- On the web
- http://jina.me
- On Twitter
- @jina
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Patty Toland
Patty cares about designing quality responsive websites with performance in mind. She works as a partner at Filament Group and has more than fifteen years consulting experience with corporate and institutional clients, with a focus on communicating complex messages across a range of media.
Patty's expertise lies in developing robust information and communication strategies, including branding, constituent analysis, information architecture and system design, and writing. Prior to founding Filament Group, Patty worked at ZEFER Corp., US Peace Corps, Kohn Cruikshank Inc. and Harvard Business School.
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- What we talk about when we talk about web performance
- On the web
- http://filamentgroup.com
- On Twitter
- @pattytoland
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Jeffrey Veen
Jeffrey Veen is a design partner at True Ventures, where he helps companies such as about.me, Medium, and Auttomatic creating better products. He has co-founded Typekit and Adaptive Path, which were acquired later by Adobe and Google. There, he redesigned Google Analytics, led the Google apps UX team, and was Vice President at Adobe's Design department. As if it's not enough, he was part of the founding web team at Wired Magazine back in the days, too. Pretty impressive, eh?
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- Momentum: Crafting a Creative Culture
- On the web
- http://veen.com/jeff/
- On Twitter
- @veen
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Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors is an industry leader in the field of web animation. She travels the world, speaking and giving workshops. Her articles on the topic have been published in Smashing Mag, A List Apart, 24 Ways, Adobe Inspire, and Net Mag. When not biking around her home city of Portland, Oregon in the USA, she consults with companies to help them bring motion and meaning to their process and designs. Sometimes she makes interactive comics, but mostly she spends her weekends curating Web Animation Weekly. You can catch her as @rachelnabors on Twitter and at rachelnabors.com.
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- Alice in Web Animation API Land
- On the web
- https://www.rachelnabors.com
- On Twitter
- @rachelnabors
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Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stackoverflow.com and lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, two cats, three children, and a whole lot of computers. In 2008 Jeff founded and built stackoverflow.com, and what would ultimately become the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites, in a joint venture with Joel Spolsky. The Stack Exchange network is now one of the top 150 largest sites on the Internet. In early 2012 he decided to leave Stack Exchange and spend time with his growing family while he thinks about what the next thing could be!
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- Addicted to Community
- On the web
- http://blog.codinghorror.com/
- On Twitter
- @codinghorror
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Mathias Biilmann
Matt Biilmann has been building developer tools, content management systems and web infrastructure for more than a decade. He is co-founder and CEO of Netlify, a static hosting platform. In his spare time he drinks Jazz and listens to Beer, while helping to organize the SF Static Web-Tech Meetup.
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- The New Front-End Stack: JavaScript, APIs and Markup
- On the web
- https://www.netlify.com/
- On Twitter
- @biilmann
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The Mystery Speaker
Can you guess who is going to be the Mystery Speaker this time?
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- And So The Mystery Begins...
- On the web
- /assets/images/mystery-smashingconf.png
- On Twitter
- @...
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