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Highlights from the Smashing Conference in New York, Custom 404 pages, beautiful calligraphy and more.

Smashing Conference Update from Scott and Dan
http://smashingconf.com/ny-2016/schedule

Design for touch

• Future input devices (touch+keyboard/mouse, voice, etc.)
• Design everything bigger: touch first
• Can’t assume based solely on screensize alone anymore

SVG

• Responsive SVG

Shared pattern language

• Take an interface, cut it up
• Sort elements into like piles
• Share with team to help name the piles
• Apply common language for element naming

Physical interfaces

• http://bluetoothbeacons.com/

Seb Lester (Calligraphy)

• https://www.instagram.com/seblester/
• http://www.seblester.com/

CSS Modules

• Reduce long selectors
• Each selector is given a unique name
• Templating library converts
• CSS Source Mapping

Custom 404

• Entertaining or useful?
• Tracking?
• Pages have moved
• Self-reporting