SmashingConf Freiburg 2024
2024-09-09..2024-09-11
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
[SmashingConf Freiburg 2022, SmashingConf Freiburg 2023, SmashingConf Freiburg 2024]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility in Data Visualization | SARAH L. FOSSHEIM | 48m |
Explains concrete rules and tools: EU Accessibility Act enforces accessibility from 28 June 2025, WCAG success criteria apply, and WebAIM found only ~2% clean… | ||
| All Users Are Stupid | CHRIS KOLB | 44m |
Users think fast with system one vs system two, so the real competition is non‑usage (the null hypothesis of design): bad hospital rollouts keep paper files… | ||
| Do the Next Right Thing | JOHN V WILLSHIRE | 39m |
A practical method called Zenko Mapping maps material vs social and fast-to-slow layers into a 3x3 nine-box grid and a gearbox of decisions. Tools include an… | ||
| Getting to the Glass | Phil Hawksworth | 52m |
Compares rendering models by showing runnable code: Netlify Edge functions (TypeScript) that fetch and inject HTML (HTMLRewriter) to implement a cookie banner… | ||
| Our Websites Need a Lifestyle Change, Not a Diet | Ryan Townsend | 50m |
Quarter of page views block visual feedback for more than 200 milliseconds, INP replaces FID as a Core Web Vital and 44% of sites failed in beta, so the talk… | ||
| So You've Decided to Do a Technical Migration | Sophie Koonin | 47m |
Monzo migrates its monorepo from Flow to TypeScript over just over two years, moving incrementally with volunteers then company-wide teams. Engineers build a… | ||
| Sustainable Design for Nature and All People | SANDY DÄHNERT | 48m |
A concrete claim: a single page can be ~20 MB with ~10 MB of images and ~8 MB of media, and compressing and scaling images (notably avoiding images 3,000px… | ||
| Symphony of the Web | Adam Argyle | 51m |
Fast paced live demo set shows 50 demos and dozens of practical snippets that are drop‑in ready: one‑line fixes like crossfade view transitions and… | ||
| The Shape of AI | Emily Campbell | 49m |
Argues that AI changes interaction patterns by giving humans back agency and shows concrete product examples: Perplexity synthesizes answers with cited sources… | ||
| Typographer vs. Accessibility | Oliver Schöndorfer | 56m |
Debunks common rules with numbers and tools: 1.1 billion people sit between full sight and blindness (510M near vision, 258M mild, 295M moderate–severe, 43M… | ||
| Bridge the Gap between Design and Development | SAMANTHA GORDASHKO | 45m |
Shows a practical pipeline: capture decisions as JSON design tokens in Figma using the Token Studio plugin, push via GitHub sync to a safe branch, and let… | ||
| From Information to Innovation | EMMA CRAIG | 51m |
Research at Miro compares BCG-listed innovators and a global survey where 98% of leaders call innovation urgent while McKinsey finds only 10% satisfied; common… | ||
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