17th–18th of April 2018
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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Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working with the Chrome and Web Developer Relations teams at Google. He is passionate about web performance and tooling. Some of his open-source work includes Workbox, Yeoman, TodoMVC and Critical. He is the author of books like “Essential Image Optimization” and “Learning JavaScript Design Patterns.”
- Talk
- Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices
- On the web
- http://addyosmani.com
- On Twitter
- @addyosmani
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Yiying Lu
Yiying Lu award-winning artist and designer. Born in Shanghai China, Educated in Sydney Australia & London UK, now based in San Francisco. Yiying was the first artist invited to join IDEO Shanghai for its Creative in Residence program in China in 2017. Previously, Yiying was the Creative Director at 500 Startups, the world's most active venture capital firm and startup accelerator. Yiying was named a "Top 10 Emerging Leader in Innovation" in the Microsoft Next 100 series.
- Talk
- Cross Cultural Design in the Age of Globalization
- On the web
- http://www.yiyinglu.com/
- On Twitter
- @YiyingLu
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Mina Markham
Mina Markham is a front-end architect, conference speaker and organizer and lover of design systems. She writes code for a living, currently for the Growth Marketing team at Slack. Previously a senior engineer at Hillary for America, her work on the Pantsuit pattern library has been spotlighted in WIRED, Fast Company, and Communication Arts. A prolific public speaker, Mina has appeared at events worldwide, including CSS Dev Conf, Fluent, and Future of Web Design.
In addition, she’s the co-organizer of Front Porch, a front-end conference which prides itself on showcasing and fostering new speakers. Mina likes ampersands, Oreos, traveling, cupcakes, and the color pink. When she's not crafting sites or teaching others, she is probably in her kitchen baking something chocolatey. Mina graduated cum laude from Syracuse University with a dual major in Graphic Arts from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Women’s Studies.
- Talk
- Redesigning Slack
- On the web
- http://mina.codes/
- On Twitter
- @minamarkham
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel Andrew is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker. She has written several web development books, including chapters for two Smashing Books and is an A List Apart columnist, writing about the business of web development. She also writes about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk. In addition to offering consultancy services through the company she founded in 2001 – edgeofmyseat.com – Rachel is also one of the developers of the content management system, Perch.
- Talk
- Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout
- On the web
- http://rachelandrew.co.uk
- On Twitter
- @rachelandrew
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Trent Walton
Trent Walton is founder and 1/3 of Paravel, a custom web design and development shop based out of the Texas Hill Country. In his spare time, Trents writes about what he learns at his blog, and on Twitter. Trent’s wife has put him on a font allowance.
- Talk
- Name That Script!
- On the web
- http://trentwalton.com
- On Twitter
- @trentwalton
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Huijing Chen
Hui Jing is a developer, author, and speaker from Singapore who loves to play with live demos on stage. Reducing lines of code in her web projects makes her extremely happy. She used to play basketball professionally and launched her web career during between training sessions.
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- Vertical Writing On The Web
- On the web
- http://chenhuijing.com/
- On Twitter
- @hj_chen
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Michael Riethmuller
Mike is an independent web developer from Australia who has worked on some of Australia’s largest websites as well as some of the smallest community sites. When he’s not building websites or writing about building websites, he likes to experiment with code. Mike loves learning new things and finding techniques that challenge what we think is best practice. When he’s not exploring the digital landscape, he likes to explore the world. Currently trying to find a way to do both those things at the same time.
- Talk
- Beyond Media Queries
- On the web
- https://madebymike.com.au/
- On Twitter
- @MikeRiethmuller
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Joe Leech
Joe is the author of the book Psychology of Designers. A recovering neuroscientist, then a spell as a elementary school teacher, Joe started his UX career 14 years ago. He has worked with organisations like MoMA NYC, Raspberry Pi, Disney, eBay and Marriott.
Joe is also Series Editor of Aspects of UX, a series of books on UX from SitePoint.com
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- Designing Powerful User Experiences With Psychology
- On the web
- http://mrjoe.uk/
- On Twitter
- @mrJoe
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Kate Dawkins
Kate Dawkins is a designer, creative director and founder of Kate Dawkins Studio. A studio that specialises in designing and delivering bespoke content for live performances, shows and brand events.
Kate has over 25 years of experience in designing and delivering distinctive visual content for some of the largest global brands, from the giant 360° ‘Audience pixels’ for the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies, to Adidas, Samsung, Jaguar Land Rover, Elton John and the MTV Music Awards.
- Talk
- Approaching Pixels And Projections
- On the web
- http://katedawkinsstudio.com/
- On Twitter
- @studiodawkins
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Mark Boulton
Mark Boulton runs a small design studio, Mark Boulton Design, working with clients such as ESPN, CERN, Al Jazeera and Drupal. In the past, he worked for the BBC and Agency.com, designing experiences for all manner of clients and people across the world. He also runs a small publishing imprint, Five Simple Steps, and a tool for making grids for web: Gridset.
- Talk
- The Ugly Truth of Design Systems
- On the web
- http://www.markboultondesign.com/
- On Twitter
- @markboulton
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Aaron Draplin
Aaron Draplin is a designer and founder of Draplin Design Co. (DDC), located in the mighty Pacific Northwest. The DDC has rolled up its sleeves on a number of projects related to print, identity, web development, and illustration. Priding itself on raftsmanship and quality, the DDC has made stuff for Field Notes, Esquire, Nike, Red Wing, Burton Snowboards, Ford Motor Co., Hughes Entertainment, and even the Obama Administration.
- Talk
- How Being A Graphic Designer Helped Me Through Stuff
- On the web
- http://ddcbook.com/
- On Twitter
- @draplin
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Claudio Guglieri
Claudio Guglieri is the Creative Director at Microsoft where he leads the Art Direction of Fluent Design, Microsoft’s own design system. Prior to this he managed design teams that worked on future audio and video experiences for Windows. He has done extensive work at agencies in the UK and the US where he drove the design efforts for a variety of clients such as Apple, Adobe, CNN, Reuters, EA, Google and Viacom among others.
Claudio is passionate about interactive design, emotional experiences and helping others to achieve more through his work. Over the years his work has been awarded by the Emmy Awards, the One Show Interactive, the European Design Awards, TheFWA and Awwwards.
- Talk
- Our Everyday Relationships with Digital Interfaces
- On the web
- https://guglieri.com/
- On Twitter
- @claudioguglieri
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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.)
- Talk
- Design in the Era of the Algorithm
- On the web
- https://bigmedium.com
- On Twitter
- @bigmediumjosh
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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
- @...
