{"id":58138,"date":"2019-01-02T04:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/2018-a-smashing-year-in-review\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T04:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:20:21","slug":"2018-a-smashing-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/2018-a-smashing-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: A Smashing Year In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"2018: A Smashing Year In Review<\/title><\/p>\n<article>\n<header>\n<h1>2018: A Smashing Year In Review<\/h1>\n<address>Rachel Andrew<\/address>\n<p> <time datetime=\"2018-12-31T14:00:30+01:00\">2018-12-31T14:00:30+01:00<\/time><time datetime=\"2019-01-02T08:52:10+00:00\">2019-01-02T08:52:10+00:00<\/time><\/header>\n<p>As we come to the end of 2018, I spoke to some of the Smashing team, to get some thoughts on what the past year has been like for Smashing Magazine. We\u2019re a small and fully remote team, communicating via Slack and Notion. Many of us only work part-time for Smashing, however, in many ways, I think that is one of our strengths.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not <em>just<\/em> the publishers of an online magazine or conference organizers, we are <strong>people who work in the web industry<\/strong>. Among the team, products have been launched, books are being written, conferences have been spoken at, and websites launched that have nothing to do with Smashing Magazine itself. I love that. It stops us being insular, and I hope this helps us to constantly broaden our reach \u2014 bringing people together from all over the world to share ideas and inspiration as we <strong>all work together to build a better web<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, I look after the content that goes out on the online magazine, and also our upcoming print magazine for members. This year, we have published almost every weekday \u2014 that represents over 290 articles! That\u2019s a whole lot of content on subjects from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/category\/privacy\">privacy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/category\/accessibility\">accessibility<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/category\/css\">CSS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/category\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/a>. While I read every article that goes out, I do not have the expertise to know everything about all of these subjects. I couldn\u2019t do my job without the help of our talented editors who work with individual authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/almahoffmann\/\">Alma Hoffmann<\/a> (Design), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chuichuitan\/\">Chui Chui Tan<\/a> (UX Design), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/drewinthehead\/\">Drew McLellan<\/a> (Coding), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jimdabell\/\">Jim Dabell<\/a> (Mobile), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marko-dugonjic\/\">Marko Dugonji?<\/a> (Typography), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/optimiced\/\">Michel Bozgounov<\/a> (Graphics), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/reybango\/\">Rey Bango<\/a> (Coding). Plus thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iris-lje%C5%A1njanin-683b59167\/\">Iris Lje\u0161njanin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mseyfferth\/\">Markus Seyfferth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yana-kirilenko-26108483\/\">Yana Kirilenko<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/author\/cosima-mielke\/\">Cosima Mielke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ajlobo\/\">Andrew Lobo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ricardo-gimenes-lopez\/\">Ricardo Gimenes<\/a> for their hard work and efforts.<\/p>\n<h3>In Between Timezones<\/h3>\n<p>On a personal note, this year has once again involved a lot of travel, as I continue to tour around speaking about new CSS and CSS Layout. That has included talks and workshops for Smashing. In total (with <a href=\"https:\/\/noti.st\/rachelandrew\">speaking engagements<\/a>, workshops and CSS Working Group meetings), I have traveled 272,865 kilometers while visiting 45 cities and 15 countries. That amounts to spending <strong>146 days on the road<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a fun fact: My weekly standup post in our Smashing Slack usually starts with sharing the timezones I\u2019m going to be in that week. Well, next year will involve more travel, and I\u2019ll be bringing my new CSS Layout workshop to <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/sf-2019\/\">San Francisco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/toronto-2019\/\">Toronto<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/ny-2019\/\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the magazine, I hope we can continue to publish great content from authors \u2014 those who are experienced writers but also folks writing for the first time. We are very happy to work with you to shape an article for publication. Personally, <strong>writing has helped boost my career<\/strong> more than anything else I have done. I love to help other people get started. So, if you have an idea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/write-for-us\/\">read this<\/a> and then send over an outline.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t hesitate. Some of our most popular posts have been beginner guides to a technology, so don\u2019t feel you need to have solved a big problem, or have some brand new technique in order to contribute. A nice technique, demonstrated and explained well, is worth a lot to someone who has just hit that same issue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough from me! What were the highlights of the year for everyone else here at Smashing?<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smashingmag\">Vitaly Friedman<\/a>: A Transitional Year<\/h4>\n<p>2018 was a quite busy and adventurous year for me, with a good number of ups and downs, challenges, surprises, and rewards. I was honored to have had the opportunity to run trainings, workshops and even offer consultancy to the European Parliament, EPAM, OTTO, Sipgate, Axel Springer and Wondrous, among others. I was happy to support dozens of local meet-ups and conferences around the world with the kind help of our Smashing Members.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I explored how we can <strong>improve the level of education for front-end and design<\/strong>. While speaking at universities and schools, I was also teaching to get a sense of what\u2019s required to set up a proper design school. In February, I taught at the <em>New Digital School<\/em> in Porto, Portugal, for a week, while exploring the state of front-end and responsive interface design in a class of 20 students. In June, I helped dear friends from the <em>Projector Design School<\/em> in Kyiv, Ukraine, set up <em>Berlin Design Campus<\/em>, an initiative for Ukrainian students to explore how digital agencies and designers work and live in Berlin. In October, I participated in a week-long co-working co-living campus in Mokrin, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I was <strong>exploring the state of design and front-end in uncommon locations<\/strong>, mostly second- and third-largest cities: Porto and Braga in Portugal (<em>thanks Tiago!<\/em>), Yerevan in Armenia (<em>thanks Sona and Sargis!<\/em>), Gdansk in Poland (<em>thanks Patrycja!<\/em>), Salzburg in Austria (<em>thanks Markus!<\/em>), Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia (<em>thanks Julia, Daria, Alex, Andrey, Vadim and Alexey!<\/em>), Split and Labin in Croatia (<em>thanks Toni, Antonio and Domagoj!<\/em>), Belgrade and Mokrin in Serbia (<em>thanks Tatjana and Marija!<\/em>), Belfast in Northern Ireland (<em>thanks Tash and Oliver!<\/em>), Manila in Philippines (<em>thanks Sophia!<\/em>), Tallinn in Estonia (<em>thanks Artur!<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Much of the time in the second half of the year was spent with wonderful people at the European Parliament in Brussels, where Nicolas and Manuel were kind enough to invite me to work on refinements and improvements of UIs for election sites, media library, and a few smaller sites. That was quite a bit of traveling, with the absolute worst highlight of the last years being a massively delayed 47-hour trip to the Philippines due to a closed runway at the Manila airport (<em>thanks for bearing with me through this, dear Sophia and the crew!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the year, I have spoken at 17 conferences, and was privileged to meet many \u2014 <em>many!<\/em> \u2014 remarkable people. It ended up with <strong>conversations I will remember for years to come<\/strong>. Some of these conversations changed me for the better as a person and professional, so I was happy to receive constructive criticism on MCing skills, writing, as well as code and design. I managed to wrap my head around the intricacies of CSS Grid Layout and Service Workers but also spent a lot of time learning about network protocols and the underlying layers of the Internet. I also attended 6 workshops to stay afloat of what\u2019s happening in our industry these days and sharpened up my front-end\/UX\/communication skills. In September, I was honored to participate in the Mozilla Tech Speakers coaching, along with Ada Rose Edwards and Marc Thiele, mentoring and giving feedback to dozens of new speakers (here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@freshelectrons\/september-in-paris-with-mozilla-tech-speakers-37019179b921\">a review of the event by Havi Hoffman<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Smashing Universe, we spent quite a bit of time revising our workflows and streamlining our processes for conferences, books, and the Smashing Membership. With fantastic event management skills of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marionaaloyciller\/\">Mariona Ciller<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amanda-tamny-annandale-849510121\/\">Amanda Tamny Annandale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/charisrooda\/\">Charis Rooda<\/a>, we\u2019ve run 5 conferences this year: in London, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.smashingconf.com\/sf-2018\/\">San Francisco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.smashingconf.com\/toronto-2018\/\">Toronto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/freiburg-2018\/\">Freiburg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/ny-2018\/\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, we experimented with a \u2019no-slides\u2019 format in Toronto (every speaker presented \u201clive\u201d on stage in front of a large screen shwoing how they build and design \u2014 with performance and accessibility audits to live designing\/coding\/sketching sessions on stage. In fact, that\u2019s the format we are going to continue exploring in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>: If this format sounds interesting to you, you can watch all of the SmashingConf talks on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/search?q=smashingconf\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Nadieh Bremer presenting at SmashingConf Toronto (watch on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/292468897\">Vimeo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After many months of work, we finally published \u201cSmashing Book 6\u201d and \u201cForm Design Patterns\u201d by Adam Silver, but quite a bit of time was spent on the next upcoming books that will be published in the next years. For the Membership, we were able to secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/scottwhitebread\/\">Scott Whitehead<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bruce-lawson-34b44\/\">Bruce Lawson<\/a> to help evolve the Membership program.<\/p>\n<p>On a more personal level, I will vividly remember vacations to Morocco (Marrakesh, Fez and the Sahara desert trip) and Sardinia (Northern part) earlier this year. Also, on a sad note, I\u2019ve moved out from Vilnius, Lithuania, where I\u2019ve resided for the past 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I see 2018 as an important \u201ctransitional\u201d year which took a lot of time, effort, and hard work. It feels like it\u2019s been a transitional year between how things used to be and what\u2019s coming up next. With this in mind, I couldn\u2019t be more excited to see what 2019 will bring us! Expect a few new books coming up, Smashing Magazine Print edition, four Smashing Conferences (San Francisco, Toronto, Freiburg, New York) and many wonderful Smashing TV sessions!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indysigner\">Markus Seyfferth<\/a>: Never Stand Still<\/h4>\n<p>Change happens everywhere and all the time \u2014 in all organizations, agencies, and businesses. If you don\u2019t thrive change on your own, then there comes a time when change takes place on its own and things get out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on the year 2018, we\u2019ve <strong>undergone changes to even better fit the needs of our readers<\/strong>. We published the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/printed-books\/smashing-book-6-new-frontiers-in-web-design\/\">Smashing Book 6: New Frontiers in Web Design<\/a>, a book packed into the probably the most beautiful cover that we have had designed so far. It\u2019s a book that sheds light on all kinds of upcoming challenges that await web designers and developers in the near future.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/89f6fbec-e8e4-4a0f-a256-00a80501b8fc\/book6.jpg?ssl=1\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book6.jpg 400w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_800\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/89f6fbec-e8e4-4a0f-a256-00a80501b8fc\/book6.jpg 800w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_1200\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/89f6fbec-e8e4-4a0f-a256-00a80501b8fc\/book6.jpg 1200w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_1600\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/89f6fbec-e8e4-4a0f-a256-00a80501b8fc\/book6.jpg 1600w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_2000\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/89f6fbec-e8e4-4a0f-a256-00a80501b8fc\/book6.jpg 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/book6.jpg?w=900\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A photo of the Smashing Book 6\"><\/a><figcaption>\n\t\t\tSmashing Book 6 (photo credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcthiele\/29717395867\/in\/album-72157673373292368\/\">Marc Thiele<\/a>)<br \/>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We also published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/printed-books\/form-design-patterns\/\">Form Design Patterns<\/a>, a book that focusses on building all sorts of accessible and resilient web forms, and how to make them pretty (thanks to progressive enhancement) \u2014 a book that I personally learned a lot from. We\u2019ve also started working on two new books that we\u2019ll be publishing early next year: \u201cArt Direction on the Web\u201d by Andy Clarke, and \u201cInclusive Components\u201d by Heydon Pickering. I am eagerly looking forward to holding both of them in my hands!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, we did something that we usually wouldn\u2019t do because it would be too much of a risk. We launched a fully redesigned site: we migrated the entire magazine, the Job Board, and our Smashing Shop onto a new platform, and also launched our Membership initiative to reduce advertising on the site and to make Smashing more independent from ads in the long run. All of this took place at the same time. Was it worth it? A definite \u201cYes!\u201d We\u2019ve seen <strong>a noticeable uptrend in our analytics and many positive outcomes<\/strong>. At around mid-2018, we had already crossed the 1,000 members mark, and we look forward to breaking the next big mark in the next year (always with the long-term goal of getting fully independent within the next three years)!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right; Smashing Membership continues to evolve. In the upcoming months, we\u2019ll be introducing a new print magazine for our Members \u2014 something that is both visually appealing and also most useful to read. Rachel will be building the print magazine mostly with print.css, so I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing how this will turn out and whether we can reuse some of it for our upcoming books!<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not the only sort of change that is still ongoing at Smashing. We also tried a new live coding and design conference format at this year\u2019s SmashingConf in Toronto; we thought that the old format had gotten a bit too much of the same, something that makes SmashingConf a bit too similar with what others already do. After all, we want to run conferences that contain content that we ourselves find most useful and interesting, and the new live format brings precisely that! It did take quite a bit of a risk though, and we\u2019re thrilled that it turned out to be a tremendous success! So we are going to double down with this new format in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, we also moved our <a href=\"https:\/\/smashingconf.com\/\">smashingconf.com<\/a> site to Netlify just recently, but that happened mostly in the background, so if no one really noticed the change, I guess that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, 2018 was a year full of transitions, but I guess you never can afford to stand still anyway? ;-)<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brucel\">Bruce Lawson<\/a>: Joining The Team<\/h4>\n<p>Before the end of the first year of Smashing Membership, we reached a thousand members \u2014 thank you so much, everyone! Those extra-special people who were with us for the whole year received a little thank you in the post.<\/p>\n<p>I joined Scott in October, which allowed us to increase the number of Smashing TV webinars (which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/membership\">free to Members and Smashing Members<\/a>, of course). We\u2019ve had sessions on coding Machine Learning, Designing with Ethics, the State of the Web in South-East Asia, and statistical techniques for collecting user data without compromising privacy. (All are recorded and available to members, if you have FOMO!)<\/p>\n<p>When we set up Membership, we promised that it would be an inclusive place where lesser-heard voices (in addition to big names) would be beamed straight to your living room\/ home office\/ sauna over Smashing TV. While we\u2019ve been speaking at other non-Smashing events, we\u2019ve watched other sessions from lesser-known talents in our industry. With only $5 to $9 a month, <strong>your Membership subscription allows us to bring you even greater content<\/strong>, pay all our contributors fairly, and reduce advertising on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, we\u2019ll be increasing the number of webinars again. Lined up is a course on how to make Progressive Web Apps, Internationalization, Semantic HTML, Houdini, as well as a monthly show hosted by me and Vitaly with industry guests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/membership\">We sincerely hope you\u2019ll join us<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsMandachelle\">Amanda Annandale<\/a>: A Year Of Firsts<\/h4>\n<p>2018 was a year of firsts, new cities, new attendees, new speakers, and even a couple new formats. We had more than a few challenges in store, but if you have any experience with the Smashing Team, you\u2019ll know that we thrive on challenges.<\/p>\n<p>We started the year in London (our first time in the capital city and the first time in England in a couple of years). The sold-out conference took place in LSO\u2019s St. Luke\u2019s Church, and bathed in sunlight. This performance-based conference brought in a new crowd of attendees and speakers \u2014 all discussing why Performance Matters, the common pitfalls, and the tips and tricks for improving the day to day user experience. With Una Kravets and Patrick Hamman as MCs, <strong>the experience was new and empowering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Smashing team headed back to San Francisco. The weather was wonderful as we returned to the bay, with 14 speakers, 8 workshops, and nearly 500 attendees. Held at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mina Markham walked us through the process of redesigning Slack, while Joe Leech broke down the process of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/266781642\">Designing Powerful User Experiences With Psychology<\/a>.\u201d We toured the area, competed with each other at the arcade, and came together to find new ways to solve new processes and challenges.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/a086453d-4de2-400e-a0f0-80c878a8340a\/amanda-toronto.jpg?ssl=1\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amanda-toronto.jpg 400w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_800\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/a086453d-4de2-400e-a0f0-80c878a8340a\/amanda-toronto.jpg 800w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_1200\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/a086453d-4de2-400e-a0f0-80c878a8340a\/amanda-toronto.jpg 1200w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_1600\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/a086453d-4de2-400e-a0f0-80c878a8340a\/amanda-toronto.jpg 1600w,\n\t\t\t https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indysigner\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto\/w_2000\/https:\/\/cloud.netlifyusercontent.com\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/a086453d-4de2-400e-a0f0-80c878a8340a\/amanda-toronto.jpg 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amanda-toronto.jpg?w=900\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A photo of Amanda at a desk at the conference\"><\/a><figcaption>\n\t\t\tBackstage at Smashing Conf Toronto (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcthiele\/43193446201\/in\/album-72157670813337918\/\">Marc Thiele<\/a>)<br \/>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of months later, SmashingConf experimented with its boldest change: no slides! All of the presenters, from Aaron Draplin to Rachel Andrew, tossed out their \u2018normal\u2019 presentation format and showed the attendees how they work. The experience was enlightening, showing <strong>how similar we all are in our work processes in some ways<\/strong>, while approaching things from an entirely different angle in others. In fact, we loved it so much that we\u2019ve decided 2019 should be the year of <em>No Slides<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The end of the summer is when Smashing goes home. Set on the foothills of the Black Forest, at the infamous Markethall, SmashingConf came back to Freiburg, Germany with 14 speakers. Chui Chui Tan spoke about Designing for Global Audiences while Josh Clark talked about Design in the Era of the Algorithm. In addition, we had a new experience adding community lightning talks to our program. No matter what changes though, there\u2019s nothing like hosting SmashingConf Freiburg and bringing people to our home.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, we ended the year in the city that never sleeps \u2014 and lived up to the name! In New York City, we had 14 speakers, 8 workshops, a packed speaker panel, a couple of retro parties, and events that kept everyone busy for four days. Smashing challenged the sold-out audience with an engaging group of speakers from John Maeda to Debbie Millman and Sara Soueidan. No matter how many times we go back, <strong>the experiences always change us in a way<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But, then again, that\u2019s how the Smashing team always feels at the end of a season: challenged, moved, and driven. We\u2019ve learned from over 30 speakers, met over 1500 attendees, flown to 5 cities, eaten lots of incredible food, and had countless wonderful experiences. Now, the team is ready to create, improve, and progress to see what 2019 has in store for us!<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/marcthiele.com\/\">Marc Thiele<\/a>: Moving Closer Together<\/h4>\n<p>If you ask me, I think that this year went by really quickly. When I look back, I see five Smashing conferences, which took place in London, San Francisco, Toronto, Freiburg and New York, as well as many improvements which we\u2019ve achieved in the background.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: Marc has taken photos of many of our conferences, you can find the albums on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcthiele\/sets\/\">Flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I say <em>background<\/em>, I mean that maybe readers, attendees or folks who <em>visit<\/em> Smashing Magazine don\u2019t even recognize the work we do <em>behind the curtains<\/em>. Of course, there are final <em>products<\/em> that are presented in the articles published on Smashing Magazine, the Smashing Books, or projects that have been brought to your attention via Smashing TV or while attending a Smashing conference or workshops, but there is a small team of people who work hard to continue improving workflows and experiences for our cherished customers. What you often don\u2019t see is see the messy middle and the bumpy journey we are on \u2014 from talking about a new idea to the final product. <strong>There actually is a lot of work, a lot of failure, and many discussions and conversations involved<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>From the end of April onwards, we had many meetings and conversations to see where we can improve the work that we do. Defining clear roles and tasks, checking how the many different parts of the Smashing Universe can grow closer together, and also looking for new, exciting ideas to bring to life. There are also many new faces on board of the Smashing boat \u2014 fresh energy to move forward \u2014 and I am very much looking forward to seeing the results of their passion and input. Expect the quality you know from the magazine and the events and an even better Smashing Membership, Smashing TV, and maybe the one or other new idea.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I personally speak about 2018, I tend to say that this year was not too good and felt strange for a reason that I can\u2019t really grab and describe. Perhaps it is the overall mood and spirit that comes from what you see when you turn on the news, read the newspaper in the morning or talk to your neighbor? All I know is that it is important to stay positive and have a positive look into the future. I ran three very successful <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtellerrand.com\/\">beyond tellerrand<\/a> shows in Munich, Dusseldorf and Berlin, and I\u2019ve seen the success we had with all the Smashing conferences and the improvements we\u2019ve accomplished for the overall Smashing experience.<\/p>\n<p>My wish for the upcoming new year: let\u2019s meet \u2014 even more. Let\u2019s share ideas and what we\u2019ve learned. <strong>Let\u2019s not just meet on the web, but in real life<\/strong>. It is wonderful to teach and share and to see other people taking what they\u2019ve learned from you and take it further to create, inspire and teach others with it. One more thing that also is important: Stay curious and ask questions. 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It is a good article to reflect upon as the current year ends and the new starts.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Smashing, for keeping me around!<\/p>\n<h3>A Truly Smashing Year<\/h3>\n<p>Reading all of this certainly makes me proud to be part of the Smashing team. At the heart of everything Smashing, is an absolute focus on <em>you<\/em>, our readers, members, and conference attendees. We hope that the things we do demonstrate that, and we are always happy to listen and to learn when we get it wrong!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited for the things we will be sharing in 2019, and along with all of the team I am always happy to hear your feedback. <strong>What can we do better? What do you want to learn? 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