SmashingConf New York 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to Use AI to Build Accessible Products | Carie Fisher | 43m |
Demo compares an axe-core linter (0/7 then 3/13 issues) with GitHub Copilot (5/7 ≈71% then 11/13 ≈85%), plus tools like VSCode, NVDA, Wave and Lighthouse. AI… | ||
| The New Rules of UX Writing | NICK DILALLO | 39m |
Nine concrete rules: start by defining the audience (e.g. build for film obsessives not “people who like movies”), pick words that shape behavior (compare… | ||
| Generating the Future | Tejas Kumar | 49m |
Argues that RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) plus embeddings and a vector store solves hallucinations, knowledge‑cutoff and short context by retrieving… | ||
| Smart Layout Patterns with Modern CSS | Kevin Powell | 48m |
Shows practical, reproducible patterns: use container queries (now ~90%+ supported) to react to a component’s inline-size, name containers and use container… | ||
| Web Components Can't Save Us. But You Can! | Scott Jehl | 44m |
Claim: web components alone don't fix performance — real wins come from shipping HTML first, cutting JavaScript, and using browser features. Evidence… | ||
| How AI Ate My Website | Luke Wroblewski | 54m |
Personal website becomes a searchable, multimodal knowledge base: 2,000 articles, 100+ videos, ~500,000 words and 6,000 minutes of video plus ~400 PDFs get… | ||
| Moving from Execution to Strategy as a Designer | Catt Small | 49m |
Argues that designers move from pixel work to product strategy by doing concrete things: tie design to written goals (example: Asana goal management), quantify… | ||
| The Secret Mechanisms of CSS | JOSH W COMEAU | 52m |
Explains why inline images leave that mysterious gap — browsers treat them like text baseline, so fixes include line-height: 0, vertical-align: bottom, or… | ||
| Is Atomic Design Dead? | Brad Frost | 49m |
Claim: Atomic Design still provides the mental model for connecting a design system to real product pages, not just isolated components. Tools used: Figma… | ||
| (Lost) Found in the Details | Jessica Hische | 50m |
Focuses on pragmatic logo work: choosing refreshes over full rebrands, fixing scalability, legibility and accessibility issues, and delivering alternate marks… | ||
| Managing Design Systems with | Nathan Curtis | 44m |
Practical workflow for running a design system: organize work as columns of tasks and rows of features, define a directly responsible individual, and use… | ||
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