Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers In Web Design
About the course
It’s about time to finally make sense of all the front-end and UX madness. Meet our new book with everything from design systems to accessible single-page apps, CSS Custom Properties, CSS Grid, Service Workers, performance patterns, AR/VR, conversational UIs and responsive art direction.
Finding your way through front-end and UX these days is challenging and time-consuming. But frankly, we all just don’t have time to afford betting on a wrong strategy. Smashing Book 6 sheds some light on new challenges and opportunities, but also uncovers new traps and pitfalls in this brave new front-end world of ours.
Authors
Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly loves beautiful content and complex challenges, and does not give up easily. He co-founded Smashing Magazine back in September 2006 and since then spends pretty much every day trying to make it better, faster and more useful. He runs responsive design training and workshops and loves solving complex UX, performance and front-end problems in large and small companies.
Rachel Andrew
Is a front and back-end web developer, author, speaker, and Editor-in-Chief of Smashing. She has written several web development books, most recently "CSS Grid Layout." She is also the founder of edgeofmyseat.com, the company behind Perch CMS.
Ada Rose Cannon
Is really passionate about Virtual Reality and other new Front End Web Technologies. Her favourite computer language is HTML (yes, really). Ada used to work in R&D on front-end web technology but now she is a Web and VR Advocate for the Samsung Internet Web Browser.
Adrian Zumbrunnen
Is a user experience & interaction designer working at Google (and formerly Information Architects) in Zurich. He loves the Web, well-formed type, and freshly brewed coffee. In his free time he goes kite surfing and writes about UX design on his blog.
Yoav Weiss
Is a principal architect at Akamai, where he focuses on making the web platform faster by adding performance-related features to browsers as well as to Akamai’s CDN. Yoav has been working on mobile web performance for longer than he cares to admit.
Lyza Danger Gardner
is a developer and co-founder of Cloud Four. A 20-year veteran of the web, she is a generalist with an abiding commitment to making the web work everywhere. Lyza is a seasoned and spirited speaker, and is a writer for A List Apart, O'Reilly, net Magazine, Smashing Magazine and others.
Mike Riethmuller
worked on some of Australia's largest websites as well as some of the smallest community sites. When he's not building websites or writing about it, he likes to experiment with code. When he's not exploring the digital landscape, he likes to explore the world and is currently trying to find a way to do both those things at the same time.
Marcy Sutton
Works on web accessibility tools at Deque Systems, a company focused on digital equality. In 2016, O’Reilly gave Marcy a Web Platform Award for her work in accessibility. She loves co-leading the Accessibility Seattle meetup and is starting a code club for Girl Develop It Bellingham. When away from the keyboard, Marcy can be found hiking with her dog, riding a bicycle, or snowboarding.
Laura Elizabeth
Is a designer turned product creator. She predominantly helps developers conquer their fear of design and runs designacademy.io, a training platform where developers can learn how to design.
Greg Nudelman
Is a Mobile and Tablet Experience Strategist, Fortune 500 Advisor, and CEO of DesignCaffeine. He is an internationally acclaimed design workshop leader and has authored four UX books: The $1 Prototype: Lean Mobile UX Design and Rapid Innovation for Material Design, iOS8, and RWD, Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers, Smashing Mobile Book (co-authored), and Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Making Design Systems Work in the Real World
Chapter 2: Accessibility in Times of Single-Page Apps
Chapter 3: Production-Ready CSS Grid Layouts
Chapter 4: A Strategy Guide to CSS Custom Properties
Chapter 5: Building an Advanced Service Worker
Chapter 6: Loading Assets on the Web
Chapter 7: On Designing Conversations
Chapter 8: UX Design of Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
Chapter 9: Crafting Experiences for AR/VR/XR
Chapter 10: Bringing Personality Back to the Web