SmashingConf

Bundles For Teams — Online Workshops "Pick any workshop of your choice at the best price, for your company or for your educational institution. Make it a Smashing experience for the entire team! Save on travelling expenses and get full…

Did you know we have online workshop bundles?

Pick 3 or more online workshops and save a 20%+ discount. Choose from Figma, Accessibility, AI, Modern CSS, and more.

Mix, match, and level up your skills:
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A Smashing Conference on UX and front-end. April 13–16, 2026. Conference and workshops for designers, UI engineers and UX professionals. — SmashingConf Amsterdam Meet a friendly and inclusive conference for product designers, UX designers and UI engineers. Boost your design and front-end skills, the smashing way.

Join us in Amsterdam (April 13–16) for two days of conference and two days of workshops.

We’re diving into:
Modern CSC, Figma, AI, Dataviz, Content & Leadership
...and much more.

Details and tickets:
smashingconf.com/amsterdam-2026

SmashingConf Online Workshops — Friendly, practical workshops for designers and web developers — Online Workshops Meet our friendly front-end & UX workshops. Boost your skills online and learn practical, actionable insights from experts — live.

Deep dives from your own desk. 🖥️🐈
Our online workshops are live, interactive, and spread over multiple days to let the learning sink in.

From Figma workflows to AI design patterns and modern CSS, real skills, no fluff.
Join us: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Smashing Membership A friendly community for people who design and build the web.

Get the most out of Smashing with a membership. 🐈

Members save 25% on all conference tickets and online workshops, plus you get every new Smashing eBook for free. 📚

Whether you're joining us in Amsterdam or learning online, it pays for itself:
www.smashingmagazine.com/membership/

Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is more than an online magazine for the lovely people who make the web. We also do (online) conferences, workshops, meet-ups and interviews. We post our (free) community videos…

📺🐈 Did you know we are also on YouTube?

Full conference sessions, live-coding deep dives, and "Unplugged" Q&As from our events.
New videos on CSS, accessibility, and design systems are uploaded regularly.

Join us and subscribe: www.youtube.com/@SmashingMag...

We’re bringing SmashingConf back to the stage in 2026.

Amsterdam 🇳🇱 (April 13–16) at Tuschinski.
Freiburg 🇩🇪 (Sept 7–10) at the Historisches Kaufhaus.
Antwerp 🇧🇪 (Oct 12–15) at the Bourla.

We’re diving into design systems, accessibility, AI, product, and modern CSS.
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Introduction slide to the talk How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter at axe-con 2026, with an illustration of a woman smiling and watering yellow-leafed plants, one of which is in a pot marked with the universal accessibility symbol. Yellow flowers and purple leaves surround her.

Also, I've prepared a talk to help designers, who are tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored.
February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" : www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!!
It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design.
Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!

#Accessibility

What we will cover:
- user research & interviews (with some nice interview cards to help you build the scrips)
- user flows & content model
- information architecture, to help you build reusable components and pages
- wireframes, prototypes & usability testing
- documenting design decisions

Promotional image for an the online Workshops, with Smashing Conference: Designing Better Products Masterclass. It happens from March 23 to April 6 2026, with Stéphanie Walter The material includes an illustration of the cute smashing cat on a boat, a photo of Stéphanie Walter with orange hair and glasses

How do you actually start a product design project?
Not the theory. The "okay, I have a brief, now what?" panic moment.

That's what my Designing Better Products Masterclass is about. I'll teach you a method you can reuse, on your own projects, from scratch!

#UXDesign #ProductDesign #UXResearch

The love is mutual! <3

We are trying our best here ;-)

Very much looking forward to the workshop I'll be giving at Smashing. It's all about practical ways you can use modern CSS, with a focus on well supported features you can use today and a sprinkle of newer stuff because it's just too good to not talk about 😅

Workshops — SmashingConf Amsterdam On the day before and after the conference, April 13 and 16, we will host full-day workshops. You can save €100–€200 by getting a conference + workshops ticket. Just get a bundle ticket and assign you...

Did you know that at Smashing Amsterdam, we also have 7 full-day workshops?
😎 @sarasoueidan.com on Accessibility
🍱 @nathanacurtis.bsky.social & TJ Pitre on Design Systems
🚧 @kevinpowell.co on CSS
🖼️ @christinevallaure.bsky.social on Figma
🐱 @vitalyf.bsky.social on UX

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Amsterdam is a well connected hub, just saying 😘

Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Design Systems 2026 — February 11, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're talking about Design Systems in 2026. We'll go into...

Almost at 1000 attendees for Meets Design Systems 2026! If you’re thinking, “Should I be attendee #999 or #1000?“, now is the time to register.
No rewards. Pure emotional satisfaction. :-D

Your ticket is free, it’s happening Tomorrow, Feb 11, 2026 (8–11 am PT). 💘
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The Front-End Accessibility Workshop — SmashingConf Amsterdam Accessibility doesn't have to be hard or time-consuming. Once you learn how to think and code inclusively, writing accessible markup becomes second nature, and part of your everyday coding workflow. I...

Officially started working on *new* content for my upcoming accessibility workshop @smashingconf.com 💃

April 13th, Amsterdam

High-level description and tickets are available already so you can grab yours now 🎟️ smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20...

#a11y

I love that conferences have started promoting other conferences:
@londonwebstandards.org #SotB26
@fronteers.bsky.social
@clearleft.com #WebDayOut
@smashingconf.com
@beyondtellerrand.com
@cssday.nl
mailchi.mp/023f520296e3...

Schedule — SmashingConf Amsterdam "You probably know the drill: 2 days, 10 speakers, 6 unplugged sessions. The conference will start around 9:30 am and we'll finish around 5 PM on the second conference day."

SmashingConf Amsterdam calling! 🌷🧀

The schedule is live! Expect loads of practical talks, unplugged sessions, and a whole bunch of side events along the way.

See for yourself!
smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20...

Who will I see in the chat? I'm doing something totally different this time 🎶🎧👩🏼‍💻

Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Design Systems 2026 — February 11, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're talking about Design Systems in 2026. We'll go into...

Happening next week!
Smashing Meets Design Systems. With the lovely @samiamdesigns.bsky.social @bencallahan.com and David Wieland. Hosted by our lovely @geoffgraham.me.

🕰️ Wednesday, February 11, Tickets are free!

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Look who is back. And we can’t be more excited!
🌷 smashingconf.com/amsterdam-2026

SmashingConf in-person Conferences 2026 — Friendly, inclusive & fun events for web designers and developers. Looking for a practical conference about web design and development? We organize three hybrid conferences in 2026: Amsterdam, Freiburg, and Antwerp. Get your ticket now! Front-end, design, UX and…

SmashingConf is back for 2026! We’re bringing thoughtfully curated conferences to Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Freiburg 🇩🇪 and Antwerp 🇧🇪.

- Actionable talks on design systems, UX, accessibility, CSS and more
- Hands-on workshops
- Side events & networking that actually help you connect
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Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Design Systems 2026 — February 11, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're talking about Design Systems in 2026. We'll go…

Join Smashing Meets: Design Systems 2026 on Feb 11 — a free online meetup with three experts sharing tools, workflows, and stories you can use Monday morning. Practical. Inclusive. Zero fluff.

📍 Free • Live • Online
🗓 Wed, Feb 11 • 08:00 PT / 17:00 CET

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Welcome back! We can’t wait to have you again! We’ll make sure we order the best summer weather, craft the best flowing talk schedule, and organise plenty of fun side events. See you in Freiburg!

SmashingConf 2026, September 7–10 — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Freiburg in Germany, September 7–10. The 13th SmashingConf Freiburg — in our lovely hometown in Germany — will be taking place in the Historic Merchants’ Hall on September 7–10. With one track, two days, 12 speakers and 300 attendees, ex...

Looks like after 12 years I'll be going to @smashingconf.com in Freiburg this September again! 🎉 Even better: we'll visit with my (almost) full team!
Can't wait! Who else is going?
smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

SmashingConf Online Workshops — Friendly, practical workshops for designers and web developers — Online Workshops Meet our friendly front-end & UX workshops. Boost your skills online and learn practical, actionable insights from experts — live.

Workshops that actually help you ship better work — from your couch. 💻✨
SmashingConf Online Workshops! Topics include CSS, UX, design systems, AI design patterns, and more.

👉 See what’s coming: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Building with AI for everyone. An introduction to Lovable. — Online Workshops A grounded intro to Lovable and prompt-powered building. Cut through the hype and get a clear picture of what these tools are, what they're not, a hands-on demo on how to get started, and what you…

💡 Curious what real-world AI building actually looks like — without the hype? Join our free live workshop with Christine Vallaure and get grounded, practical insights into Lovable and prompt-powered workflows.

🗓️ Jan 20 • 18:00 – 19:30 CET
💻 Workshop · Demo · Q&A

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🌍 Whether in-person or online, join us at one of our three European conferences in 2026! Network, learn, and get inspired with fellow designers and developers.

See all locations and dates here:
🔗 smashingconf.com/conferences

Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Design Systems 2026 — February 11, 2026 Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're talking about Design Systems in 2026. We'll go…

✨ Curious about design systems? Join our free Smashing Meets sessions and dive into practical insights with fellow designers.

February 11, 2026. 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET.
Free and online: 🔗 smashingconf.com/meets-design...