Monday, September 17, 2012

Smashing Conference Live — Day 1

Smashing Conference Live — Day 1:

During the two days of the Smashing Conference, we will provide you with insights, photos and highlights on Smashing Magazine — live from the conference venue. Our team will be posting updates from the early morning to the late evening on both dates to bring you as close to the conference as possible. You can also track the tweets from the conference by following the hashtag #smashingconf and permalink for the live updates.
Bookmark this page to follow the auto-updates in real-time. Please notice that no live stream is available, but all videos will be made available for free after the event. You might want to check the schedule of the conference as well.

Monday, September 17th 2012


14.14



  

Oliver Reichenstein (@iA) on stage, starting with a scene from Mad Men.
iA

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13.51



  

Great to get outside during the lunch break! This is how the Smashing flags look like at the building.
Flags

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13.50



  

Time for a lunch break before Oliver Reichenstein gets on the stage. Many attendees went to the Minster market to get some traditional Freiburger sausages!
Oliver coming up next

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12.43



  

“Command line vs Photoshop: command line is friendly and even says your name!” — Stephen Hay

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12.42



  

“Are you scared designers? Here comes the command line!” — Stephen Hay

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12.39



  

“Developers have a wealth of all sorts of great tools, while designers have…Photoshop.” — Stephen Hay

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12.29



  

Stephen Hay is on stage talking about style guides being the new Photoshop. “We need two things in order to replace Photoshop: static web prototypes and style guides. Pattern libraries are not style guides. Style guides explain when and how to use a particular pattern.” — Stephen Hay
Photos

Photos

Photos

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11.52



  

“You wouldn’t give clients Dreamweaver to update sites, so why do we give them a CMS that mimics that behavior?” — Rachel Andrew.
Photos

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11.51



  

“Avoid inserting raw HTML into your content at all costs. Clean content is far more portable.” — Rachel Andrew.

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11.44



  

“A giant blank text area is terrible UX. Remember, our content creators are our users too!” — Rachel Andrew.

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11.37



  

“CMS allows designers to make semantic decisions so the editor doesn’t have to.” — Rachel Andrew.

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11.36



  

Rachel Andrew on stage, talking about the future of content management systems. “A CMS should help content editors make good decisions.”
Rachel Andrew

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10.48



  

Jeremy explains how he avoided responsive images altogether by introducing multiple columns instead of scaling up images. (via Brad Frost)

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10.41



  

To designers: “The Web is responsive by default, you make design decisions that screw it up!” — Jeremy Keith.
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— Luca Degasperi (@lucadegasperi) September 17, 2012
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— Simon Coudeville (@simoncoudeville) September 17, 2012

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10.39



  

“Progressive enhancement isn’t about designing for the lowest common denominator. It’s just about starting there.” — Jeremy Keith.

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10.36



  

“There is a difference between support and optimization”. — Brad Frost

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10.34



  

We’ve set up a Smashing Lounge with our sofas and tables for attendees to get some work done. Happy surfing! (vf)
Smashing Lounge

Smashing Lounge

Smashing Lounge

Smashing Lounge

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10.33



  

It’s weird to see most people not using laptops or mobile phones while Jeremy Keith is speaking. Jeremy Keith definitely draws attention to his talk. (vf)

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10.31



  

Jeremy Keith on stage, talking about the Spirit of the Web.
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith

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09.56



  

People are enjoying the Smashing Lounge, having a morning coffee and charging their devices for the upcoming first talks… Pay us a visit if you are around! (sp)
Smashing Lounge

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09.27



  

The room is filling with truly smashing attendees! And the coffee seems to be quite popular as well. The first speaker after the Welcome note is Jeremy Keith. (vf)
Smashing Conference

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09.03



  

The registration opens! It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day. Last check-ups. And yep, we’ve produced the flags to put on the building as well. Exciting! (vf)
Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

Smashing Conference

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06.35



  

Here we go. Waking up early, adding photos to the post and double checking the introduction slides. The Smashing Conference is coming! (vf)

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Sunday, September 16th 2012

Sunday, 20:48
Speaker dinner up in the hills of Freiburg. On the left: Josh Brewer, Mark Boulton, Oliver Reichenstein. On the right: Jeremy Keith. Yep, his thoughts are far, far away. And no, it wasn’t as boring as this picture looks like — on the contrary, it looked like some speakers were having the time of their lives!
Speaker Dinner
Sunday, 19:30
Finally, almost all 16 speakers have arrived safely. Most of them had to deal with delayed flights and trains, but we picked them up ourselves. Well, and almost all are right in time before the speaker dinner! Waiting outside the hotel.
The Speaker dinner
Sunday, 18:44
The Smashing Crew’s t-shirts. If someone has a question or needs assistance, we’ll be easy to recognize by the orange t-shirt. Time for a photos break. We’ve got to set things up.
The Smashing Crew
Sunday, 17:02
Final checks at the conference venue. All bags and badges are waiting for attendees inside. Setting up Wi-Fi, testing slides, checking audio and light, preparing for registrations, drinks, snacks and sponsors stands. If you look closely at the venue, you might be able to detect some fine details. The building, Historical Merchants Hall, was built between 1520 and 1530. (vf)
The walls
In the venue
Preparations
Main Venue
Sunday, 16:45
Flyers for attendees with directions to the party. (vf)
Preparations for the Conference
Sunday, 16:34
The t-shirts, lanyards, badges, stickers, bags and swag are ready. (vf)
Preparations for the Conference
Sunday, 11:14
Our team at Andy Clarke’s workshop. Andrew (on the left), our eBook manager, and Iris, our senior editor. It looks like they are having fun as well! (vf)
Andrew and Iris
Sunday, 10:16
Andy Clarke’s first workshop. All seats are taken. The reason why we had to organize the workshop on Sunday is that the first workshop which Andy will host on Wednesday was fully booked within 2 weeks. We had to be creative and organized a pre-workshop on Sunday. (vf)
Andy Clarke's Workshop

Saturday, September 15th 2012

Saturday, 22:44
The first speakers have arrived. A pre-warm party near the venue. On the right: Andy Clarke, Brad Frost and Jonathan Snook. And yes, that’s a schnitzel. (vf)
First speakers
Saturday, 19:45
First attendees are arriving in Freiburg. For most of them, travelling to Freiburg isn’t easy, and quite time-consuming. Freiburg has many beautiful sides, one of them are beautiful cobbled streets in the city centre. A photo by John Davey. (source). (vf)
Streets

Friday, September 14th 2012

Friday, 13:37
Packing, packing, packing. The conference welcome 350 attendees, and each of them has to have a bag ready for them at the registration. It took quite a while for Lisa to prepare the bags, but she doesn’t look very annoyed.
Bags
Bags
Friday, 13:30
After months of planning and preparations, the conference is finally coming. The Smashing Conference — our first two-day community event for Web designers and developers in our home town Freiburg, Germany — is starting today. Back in May, we have invited our dear community to come together to share and gain practical knowledge in an intimate, informal atmosphere. Admittedly, we haven’t expected that all 350 tickets will be gone within two weeks.
Preparations for the Conference
We’re extremely excited and happy to welcome 16 fantastic speakers such as Andy Clarke, Rachel Andrew, Aarron Walter, Christian Heilmann, Jeremy Keith, Oliver Reichenstein, Lea Verou, Mark Boulton or Paul Boag as well as remarkable attendees from all parts of the world. The conference is a big deal for us, but we want you to be a part of it as well.
During the two days of the Smashing Conference, we will provide you with insights, photos and highlights from the conference venue live on Smashing Magazine website. Our team will be posting updates from the early morning to the late evening on both dates to bring you as close to the conference as possible. You can also track the tweets from the conference by following the hashtag #smashingconf.
Bookmark this page to follow the auto-updates in real-time. Please notice that no live stream is available, but all videos will be made available for free after the event.
The conference takes place in Freiburg, Germany at the legendary Historical Merchants Hall at the foot of the Black Forest. The two-day single-track conference will present talks on September 17th and 18th, as well as three workshops on September 19th.

Facts

We’re very excited about the Smashing Conference, and we wish you attended the conference as well. Please share in the comments what exactly you’d like us to post, and feel free to submit your questions for speakers as well. We’re looking forward to the two inspiring and exciting conference days!

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