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AI is changing how we design and build, and it isn’t slowing down. On December 1, we’re hosting the AI 2027 Conference. A live, online day on where AI stands today, what to expect in 2027. December 1, 2026 €50 / 50 USD only Register your ticket today: smashingconf.com/ai-2027-conf...

Last few days for the current workshop pricing. After October 28, ticket and bundle prices go up. Live sessions, recordings and slides are included, and there’s a free 2.5h preview if you want to try one first. smashingconf.com/online-works...

We’ve extended our current workshop pricing by one more week. You can still save 10–20% on tickets and bundles until October 28. Bundles don’t expire, so you can use them for ongoing, upcoming and future workshops. Handy for teams and agencies! 💛 smashingconf.com/online-works...

🛋️ New online workshops are up: UX, front-end, design systems, accessibility. Live sessions, recordings included, work from the couch or a mountain cabin. Prices go up on Oct 20, so there’s still a few days to save 20%. smashingconf.com/online-works...

The conference season 2026 is over for me. Engaging with different communities in person was the most fun part of my work this year. State of the Browser 🇬🇧 Web Day Out 🇬🇧 UX Summit 🇦🇹 A-Tag 🇦🇹 Smashing Conf Amsterdam🇳🇱 CSS Day 🇳🇱 StripeCon 🇦🇹 ID 24 (Online) FrontKon 🇨🇿

Our friends at I Love Typography are hosting Font Tech & AI, an online conference on 8–10 October. Talks, panels, and workshops on font tools and AI in type design, with speakers like Nadine Chahine, John Hudson, and Adam Twardoch. Tickets £125, students £45. trust.ilovetypography.com/font-tech-ai/

This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!

Today at 6 pm CEST I'm doing a live, one hour accessibility testing session. You send me links, I test them and comment what I see. Hosted by my friends at @smashingconf.com! smashingconf.com/online-works...

I've heard that CSS subgrid is difficult to progressively enhance – and I disagree! Here's how I create subgrid fallbacks with one small addition. youtu.be/2ESqkg20JaE Join my @smashingconf.com workshop for more maintainable CSS! smashingconf.com/online-works... #CSS

Only a couple of days left before my Accessibility for Designers online workshop starts! It's remote, 4×2.5h live sessions over 2 weeks. You will learn how to design accessible products, from the start, to save time later in projects. Ful details: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Last week's "The Joy of Being Wrong" by @emmabostian.bsky.social at @smashingconf.com Freiburg was such a lovely session! ❤️ So I tried my best to capture it my sketch note way. 🎨 My favorite learning is the "Learning Zone" and how to create the safe space needed for it. 🫶 #smashingconf

you really should and I need to do it more too ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-spe...

I'm a little late, but I really enjoyed this year's Freiburg edition of @smashingconf.com. A big thank you to everyone involved; the team and organization were fantastic, and I feel really thankful for having gotten to meet so many amazing humans 😍 Can't wait for next year!

Still dreaming about this 🥰

Fighting the post @smashingconf.com blues. Had such a nice time, spoke with so many like minded people and enjoyed that unadulterated positivity that has become quite rare. Even got a little star struck sharing a table with people who's tools I use and books I read. 😊 See you next year.

Only 9 days until #ID24! 😍 24 talks about accessibility in 24 hours, for free! inclusivedesign24.org/2026/

If you want to follow day 2 of @smashingconf.com in Freiburg, one way is to check my photos regularly. Started to drop photos of day 2 already. And what a great start with @heydonworks.com marcthiele.com/photos/smash...

I won't complain because I'm still in Italy but nevertheless @smashingconf.com FOMO is real. Have fun y'all! ❤️#smashingConf

Thank you everyone who was here today at @smashingmagazine.com conference in Freiburg! You can find the slides from my talk "Fun with flags" over here: speakerdeck.com/evaferreira/...

"i18n is not just translating strings, it's showing that we care." 💜 @evaferreira92.bsky.social at #smashingconf

“It’s not a failure when someone doesn’t take your advice”. Lots to reflect from Joe’s talk. I’ve explored the “talking about risk” from the dev perspective but talking about fear and frustration is more complicated as that’s also part of company culture. #SmashingConf

As you know we are having great fun in Freiburg with the @smashingconf.com crew. You can't be here? Well, maybe these photos are a little help for you to feel as if you are part of it. marcthiele.com/photos/smash...

Lovely venue for the @smashingconf.com Jam Session!

Had an absolute blast at the @smashingconf.com Jam Session today! So many awesome people 🥰The conference starts tomorrow and it’ll be 💯

Nodding along to everything @evaferreira92.bsky.social is sharing. #smashingConf

ready for my workshop! #SmashingConf feeling somewhat underdressed

Oh look 👀 it’s an oscilloscope that actually fits in a suitcase. I wonder what airport security is going to say when they see this thing going through the scanners. I just don’t have an room for clean clothes left in my luggage. But that is a price I am willing to let you pay. Smell you later! 👋🏻

CSS has changed dramatically in the last 6 years, but always building on core principles of resilience & design systems. Join me in October for a 5-day (3-week) @smashingconf.com workshop about how it all fits together, and how to make it work for your team: smashingconf.com/online-works... #CSS

"Oscilloscopes & Other Bad Ideas" I've been so swamped in work that I completely forgot that I am going to give a talk at the @smashingconf.com Jam Session next monday. But with a title like that I already know it's going to be good. smashingconf.com/freiburg-202...

Doing a bunch of talks in the next while: - A web that serves us all (Smashing 🇩🇪, 9 Sept) - Human rights+tech (🇳🇱, 21 Sept) - Improving WCAG 3 (#id24 🌎, 24 Sept) - Creativity cannot be computed (WDC 🇬🇧, 9 Oct) - Green web (ffconf 🇬🇧, 13 Nov) - WCAG-EM (🇬🇧, 18 Nov) see also: hidde.blog/speaking/#up...

A week today I will be heading to @smashingconf.com Freiburg ✨💖

So, it seems I'll be going to the @smashingconf.com in Freiburg next week! 😊 If you're also going, let me know, so that my shyness has less ground to hold on too. 🙂

Details: This is hosted by @smashingconf.com 📅 Tue, Sept 1, 2026 · 19:00 CEST 🎟️ Free, recording included: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Since accessibility issues start in the design phase, catching them early is cheaper than fixing them in code. I'm running a free 1 hour accessibility webinar this Tuesday Sept 1, 2026 · 19:00. It covers how to check your mockups, documentation examples and you will get plenty of resources to help.

And @charismagic.studio convinced me to come to @smashingconf.com after all ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am so looking forward to that, after the conference dry-spell over the summer break. Can't wait - and finally also an opportunity to take the sleeper train back home. What should I talk about at the Jam Sessions?

🌍 Eva's talk is about the new i18n reality. She's covering QA workflows for the AI era, plus the very real problem of German nouns destroying your layout. She's also running a workshop right after the conference: Accessibility from Code to Compliance. 🏳️ Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

🤝 Joe's talk names the thing everyone's felt but nobody says out loud: designers and devs both feel sidelined, both blame each other, and the actual problem is leadership never gave anyone clear goals. He hands you real ways to fix that. 🔥 Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

🧠 Sarah's talk pulls back the curtain on the psychology quietly running the show — the invisible reasons people use, love, or ghost the things we design. Her whole point: AI or not, if you don't understand human behavior, none of the polish matters. ❤️ Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

Great to see that @smashingconf.com continue to offer scholarships and opportunities for volunteers at their events. Heartily recommended. smashingconf.com/scholarship-...

🤖 Rachel's talk skips the "AI changes everything" speculation entirely and goes straight to the messy, ground-level decisions designers are making right now — trust signals, system boundaries, interaction patterns that don't fall apart. ✨ Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

We want to make #SmashingConf Freiburg accessible to everyone! If you are part of an underrepresented group in tech or design, apply for a scholarship ticket to join us in person in Freiburg or online from anywhere. 🎟️ 👉 Apply here: smashingconf.com/scholarship-... A share is deeply appreciated! 💖

🧩 TJ's is bringing his Context-Based Design Systems framework to the main stage — he will also be running a workshop on Building Context-Based Design Systems for AI-Driven Product Teams. 🤖 Come see it live in Freiburg, Sept 7–10. Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

hehe stars aligned and turns I am going to attend the next @smashingconf.com Freiburg a month today! It's a 2-day single-track conference with fantastic speakers, friendly people, and in a lovely town. 💚 Who will I see there? 🥰 smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

Happy to share I'll be speaking about atproto at @smashingconf.com Freiburg's Jam Session this year! Last years SmashingConf was amazing, and I expect this year will be just as awesome :) There's still tickets, too! smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

🤖 Ioana's Freiburg talk skips the AI doom-and-hype cycle entirely and goes straight for the good stuff: how to actually think critically about where AI belongs in your design process. 🎨 Come see it live in Freiburg, Sept 7–10. Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

🐴 Lyra builds things people swear are impossible — CSS-only x86 emulators, interactive "CSS crimes". At Smashing, expect to leave with actual new CSS tricks and a slightly concerning new relationship with the language. 💀 Come see it live in Freiburg. Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

Happy Thursday! :-D

🌍 Hidde 's talk goes after where the web is quietly failing in 2026 — speed, access, sheer dullness — with real, buildable ways to make it more sustainable, accessible, and fun again. Plus a workshop: Modern CSS for Everyday Development. 💻 Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

Jake's a Mozilla dev who's somehow made "how browsers actually work" into a entertaining bit. He'll be talking about: Customisable `<select>` and the friends we made along the way. 🍿 Come see it live in Freiburg, Sept 7–10. Tickets here: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

💥 Emma's talk is an intervention: what happens when an assumption goes unchallenged for way too long, and why saying "I was wrong" out loud might be the most underrated leadership move there is. Myth-busting, mildly humbling, very funny. Join us: smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026