Summary of the Smashing Conference in Freiburg.

Day 1:

• Rachel Andrew: When using CSS grid @support is your friend.
• Alla Kholmatova: The right design system for you is where you are able to manage the downsides effectively.
• Michael Riethmuller: A media query does a hard change of a setting at that point. This causes stress points to the design just before and after the media query.
• Emanuela & Matteo: People don’t know what they want, until they are using it.
• Mathias Biilmann: Nevermind full stack. This talk introduced JAM-stack (JavaScript, APIs and Markup).

Day 2:

• Yiying Lu: Be ready to capture ideas everywhere.
• Christopher Wright: In order to successfully experiment we need to do it wrong.
• Alma Hoffmann: Harness your creative mind. Use it or lose it.
• Sara Ramos & Tiago Pedras: Plan, but be ready to improvise and iterate.