Smashing Magazine

Reactive Animations with CSS Variables

With HTTP/2, Service Workers, Responsive Images, Flexbox, SVG and Font Loading API now available in browsers, we all are still trying to figure out just the right strategy for designing and buildings responsive websites just in time. We want to use all of these technologies, but how can we use them efficiently, and how do we achieve it within a reasonable amount of time?

In this talk, Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, will be looking into a strategy for crafting fast, resilient and flexible responsive design systems by utilizing all of those wonderful shiny web technologies we have available today. We'll also talk about dealing with legacy browsers and will cover a few dirty little techniques that might ensure that your responsive websites will stay relevant, flexible and accessible in the years to come.


WORKSHOP

Smart Responsive Design Patterns: Front-End & Performance

With HTTP/2, Service Workers, Responsive Images, Flexbox, SVG, WAI-ARIA roles and Font Loading API now available in browsers, we all are still trying to figure out just the right strategy for designing and buildings responsive websites efficiently. We want to use all of these technologies and smart processes like atomic design, but how can we use them efficiently, and how do we achieve it within a reasonable amount of time?

In this full-day front-end workshop, Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, will be looking into a strategy for crafting fast, resilient and flexible responsive design systems by utilising all of those wonderful shiny web technologies we have available today. We’ll also talk about dealing with legacy browsers and will cover a few dirty little front-end techniques that might ensure that your responsive websites will stay relevant, flexible and accessible in the years to come.

Intended audience

The workshop is intended for intermediate/advanced designers and developers who have an understanding of responsive design and how it works. We won’t cover the basics — instead, the workshops covers more advanced techniques used in responsive design.

This workshop will cover
  • content choreography, internationalisation and localisation issues
  • layout techniques (flexbox)
  • resolution independence (SVG)
  • compressive images (optimization and techniques)
  • responsive images (technical perspective)
  • responsive iframes and media: audio, video (incl. subtitles)
  • accessibility issues
  • performant components (carousels, video etc.)
  • deferring and lazy-loading JavaScript (techniques, tools)
  • dealing with web fonts (options, strategy)
  • performance issues/strategy (best practices + HTTP/2 + HTTPS + prefetching techniques)
  • maintenance issues (e.g. dealing with legacy browsers)
  • responsive HTML email newsletters
  • tooling (performance, frameworks, testing, quality assurance)
  • (optionally) offline support/experience + debugging
What hardware/software do you need?

No laptop needed, just bring lots of creativity!

Sponsors

The great companies below are supporting us in 2016 – Thank you!

Advania
AMP Project
Aranja
Bloomberg
Highcharts
Landsbankinn
Mozilla
Tempo
UPPERQUAD
CCP
UENO.
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Travel sponsors: DigitalOcean, Hudl, Spotify, appear.in, Capital One Financial Corporation, Amazon, Originate, Mozilla – Thank you!