SmashingConf Antwerp 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| When Figma meets CSS | Christine Vallaure | 43m |
Claims that Figma’s auto layout closely maps to CSS Flexbox and that designers must understand auto layout = Flexbox for predictable nesting and resizing… | ||
| How to Create Truly Great Charts | NICK DESBARATS | 44m |
Argues that good charts must "do the job" and require many skills beyond tool fluency: data sourcing/cleaning, basic statistics, situational knowledge, design… | ||
| Do The Next Right Thing | JOHN V WILLSHARE | 47m |
Claim: use simple lenses and a non‑linear map to expose what a thing actually is so you can act on it. Tools: an Obliquiscope window to shift perspective and… | ||
| Shape Your Future Self | JASON MESUT | 56m |
A set of visual canvases and paper exercises decode identity into layers—environment, technical skills, foundational habits, social personas, and purpose—and… | ||
| Words That Bloom | Gemma O’Brien | 51m |
Combines hand lettering, natural motifs and digital tools into repeatable workflows: physical letterpress beginnings, a scanned hand-drawn asset library… | ||
| Creating Beautiful, On-Brand Photography with AI | Pablo Stanley | 53m |
Shows a working product: Lummi — curated AI stock gallery with search, reframe crops, chutes (consistent series), and retouch features, plus experiments using… | ||
| Facilitation Tools for Everyday Productivity | DEE SCARANO | 55m |
Facilitation turns weeks of one‑on‑ones into a two‑hour session that produces a voted, prioritized problem list and immediate next steps, saving days or even a… | ||
| Managing Design Systems, from Features to Roadmaps | Nathan Curtis | 50m |
Shows a repeatable workflow: plan → design → spec → code → publish, with tasks tracked per-component and slotted into releases (examples use a monthly release… | ||
| Squish Meets Structure – Designing with Shoggoth | Maggie Appleton | 49m |
Calls language models a squishy Shoggoth vs structure problem and argues for breaking big tasks into small, verifiable steps. Describes building Elicit — a… | ||
| Made for the World. Design Systems at Scale. | CAMERON WORBOYS | 39m |
Reports from nearly 400 designers show design systems speed work but can stifle creativity, with a timed re-creation taking 12 minutes vs 3 hours and a global… | ||
| Design's New Frontier | Harrison Wheeler | 54m |
Design leadership reframes planning: inventory all requests, tag themes, and align on scope using a worksheet plus quarterly planning tied to engineering… | ||
| In Defense of an Old Pixel | Marcin Wichary | 52m |
Claims that tiny grid constraints spark creativity and that pixel fonts demand their own medium; demonstrates by building a browser-based pixel engine in plain… | ||
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