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Over the next two days, we’ll be bringing you all of the insights, photos, and highlights from Smashing Conference — live from the conference venue. Our team will be posting updates from the early morning to the late evening on both days 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.
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Monday, September 9th 2013
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13.12
Wi-Fi At The Conference:
A huge Thank You to our technical team for taking care of the Wi-Fi. The attendees also sincerely appreciate it:
Excellent Wi-Fi so far at @smashingconf – congrats! #smashingconf
— Joschi Kuphal 吉 (@jkphl) September 9, 2013
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13.00
Lunch time! Be sure to try out the Freiburger Wurst at the Münsterplatz! Highly recommendable! 😉
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12.29
If you’re working from home, Inayaili de León has got some great advice. Stay in touch with your team, share news with other people, use Skype and Google Hangouts. Pick up the phone.
Create human moments when working remotely… #smashingconfpic.twitter.com/sq7xGV0bEk
— Robert Zierhofer (@rzierhofer) September 9, 2013
"If people need to be in the project, include them early." – @yaili#smashingconf
— Joonas Salovaara (@sarukuku) September 9, 2013
Interesting talk by Inayaili de León Persson about communication and working remotely. #smashingconf
— Andreas Eldh (@eldh) September 9, 2013
Human moments are the basis of healthy relating in digital age – create a human moment a day @yaili#smashingconf
— ajara (@nagare_ip) September 9, 2013
"We overvalue our own ideas." @yaili – another take-away from #smashingconf to remind ourself from time to time. pic.twitter.com/RTsQWZ8l28
— Alexander Woerndl (@awenro) September 9, 2013
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12.03
Tim Kadlec talks about the importance of performance:
Tim Kadlec über performance by design #smashingconfpic.twitter.com/EZVslL2jSy
— Robert Zierhofer (@rzierhofer) September 9, 2013
He’s given some great advice on setting a performance budget. Make sure that your page doesn’t go over that budget. This gives you a framework to decide whether you include a feature in your site or not. For example, your client wants you to add a carousel – to stay within budget you can decide to either:
- Optimize – optimize the carousel
- Remove – remove something else from the website
- Don’t include it at all. If something isn’t important enough to replace something there then it doesn’t need to be on your website.
This framework gives you something tangible to talk about with your boss or clients and helps you to make decisions.
Bad performance is bad business. @tkadlec#smashingconf
— Jonas Fredin (@hellofredin) September 9, 2013
Webpage test http://t.co/NmhCvXucOV screenshot your site's performance and visualize your performance problems. Via @tkadlec#smashingconf
— Brad Frost (@brad_frost) September 9, 2013
Respect the people that come to your site:
- respect their time, don’t make them waste their time waiting for your website to load.
- respect their money – people on a mobile network can get charged a lot of money to download your website.
- respect their desire for content.
#smashingconf@tkadlec Performance means respecting the user’s time.
— Marko Dugonjić (@markodugonjic) September 9, 2013
Embrace constraints!
Here are some notes by @verpixelt:
My personal notes from Tim Kadlec’s talk – “Deliberate performance” http://t.co/VLyQmCY4sL #smashingconf
— Kevin Lorenz (@verpixelt) September 9, 2013
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11.37
Make sure you say “Hi!” to our wonderful sponsors. They’re the guys that make it possible! Here are some of them in person:
Rukzuk
Inline Manual
WordPress.com
Fotolia
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11.10
Grab a snack, have come coffee, and make sure to chat to all of the other attendees. When we come back Tim Kadlec will be talking about “Deliberate Performance” and Inayaili de León Persson about “The Most Important Part of your Job”.
Or just take some pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures:
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10.55
If you need some help or have some questions, speak to the crew. You can’t miss those orange t-shirts!
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10.50
Dan Mall suggests that we change the phrase designing in the browser to “deciding in the browser.”
"Not designing in the browser, deciding in the browser" – @danielmall#smashingconf
— Kim Dolleris (@KimDolleris) September 9, 2013
When you get to the point of fighting your tools, you aren't expressive anymore. Great @danielmall#smashingconfpic.twitter.com/KZ8W26GYz3
— Alexander Woerndl (@awenro) September 9, 2013
#smashingconf Brilliant talk by @danielmall, I may have caught 5% of all the smart stuff in my sketchnotes. pic.twitter.com/H3vGoelPGD
— Elisabeth Irgens (@sortenke) September 9, 2013
Had a great time speaking at @smashingconf! @lukew wrote up some great notes: http://t.co/awjbAHvH0d#smashingconf
— Dan Mall (@danielmall) September 9, 2013
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10.45
Need some directions? Cat shows the way to the Smashing Lounge.
If you need to chill out on some sofas, buy some Smashing Magazine books, or you just want to meet Cody, come along and say hi!
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10.20
Dan Mall talks about creating a visual inventory. Present your client with a bunch of websites that have solutions to the problem that you are having. Use these to ask questions that start conversations. Solve your clients’ problems using the successes and failures of others.
Inagine how your site could be. @danielmall at #smashingconfpic.twitter.com/QiYHrR1CiK
— Jan Kraus (@jankraus) September 9, 2013
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09.45
Elliot Jay Stocks tells us his story, walking us through his flash websites with their on-load music, pixel fonts, and other crimes against the Web. But what’s been important are his side projects. Your side projects represent your passion and you never know what can grow from them. They can have a huge impact on your career.
"It's not necessary the finished product that matters, it's the journey." – @elliotjaystocks#smashingconf
— Jonas Fredin (@hellofredin) September 9, 2013
Your side projects are what define you #smashingconf
— Patty Delgado (@pattydelgado) September 9, 2013
@elliotjaystocks "your side projects does not have to necessary remain side projects". Great demonstration #smashingconf
— Pascal (@PascalThuet) September 9, 2013
my notes about Elliot Jay Stocks talk at the #smashingconfhttp://t.co/80OFENDahZ
— Kevin Lorenz (@verpixelt) September 9, 2013
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09.15
What a surprise! The world’s first and best Web design boy band perform Bruce Lawson’s “Like a Rounded Corner”. We’ve got Dan Mall on keyboard, Nishant Kothary and Brad Frost on guitar, and Dan Rubin singing — what a performance!
The #smashingconf Boy Band: pic.twitter.com/BNJyhaLRIt
— Maximilian Schalch (@designrDevelopr) September 9, 2013
It seems that #smashingconf got off to an odd start this morning with a video of me singing "Like a rounded corner". Anyone got a photo?
— bruce lawson (@brucel) September 9, 2013
@brucel It was a live performance of us playing your song. Me and @rainypixels on guitar, @danielmall on keys, and @danrubin singing!
— Brad Frost (@brad_frost) September 9, 2013
Of course, photos weren’t enough — we just had to record, Bruce!
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08.00
Badges are all set and ready to go!
Attendee bags are all ready and full of surprises!
Some of the goodies inside the attendee bag:
Starting soon! #fnotes#smashingconfpic.twitter.com/F0wFEjzbJS
— Frantic (@franticcom) September 9, 2013
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07.15
We’re getting the flags ready to hang outside the Kaufhaus:
And here they are! Look out for them blowing in the breeze. Join the queues of designers and developers and watch out of the crew handing out t-shirts. Exciting!
Good morning everyone! We are back again for #smashingconf in Freiburg. Good times. pic.twitter.com/rvG9lVr9L7
— 14islands (@14islands) September 9, 2013
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07.00
Getting things ready for Smashing Conference 2013. It’s a beautiful day in Freiburg — the sun is shining and there’s barely a cloud in the sky. Everyone is up, bright and breezy, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone at the Kaufhaus.
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