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Miriam has always been nothing but spot-on, professional, funny, while also being extremely knowledgeable, smart, polite and always on time.

—Vitaly Friedman, Founder at Smashing Magazine & Conference

Every time I hear @TerribleMia talk I learn a ton and laugh a ton. She’s an amazing speaker… Watch this talk when it’s published!

—Sarah Drasner, VP of Developer Experience at Netlify

2021 Resources

  1. Online Together Fall Summit 2021, October 11-13
    Talk resource type

    Styling the Intrinsic Web

    With Cascade Layers & Container Queries

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at An Event Apart Fall Summit on
    • at TPAC 6-Minute Summary on
    see all Talk resources
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    Container Queries & The Future of CSS

    Modernizing the cascade for responsive design systems

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Smashing Meets CSSummer on
    • at CSS Café on
    see all Talk resources
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    Beyond CSS Variables

    Pushing past global design tokens

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at An Event Apart Spring Summit on
    see all Talk resources
  4. Rethinking user experience design across media
    Talk resource type

    User Unfriendly

    designing software for humans, with other humans

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at General Assembly, Ethics in Design on
    • at Agnes Scott College on
    see all Talk resources

2020

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    When Variables Cascade

    An exploration of CSS custom properties

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at SmashingConf Austin/NY on
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  4. Miriam speaking at Smashing Conf NY
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    CSS is Rad

    Resilient design on an infinite canvas

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Design 4 Drupal Webinar Series on
    • at SmashingConf Live on
    see all Talk resources
  5. Miriam speaking at Develop Denver, 2019
    Talk resource type

    Dynamic CSS

    with grids & custom properties

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Shift Remote on
    • at Develop Denver on
    see all Talk resources
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    Cascade Aligned Programming

    What does it mean to style a universal medium?

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Front Range Front End on
    see all Talk resources
  7. Miriam talking with Jen Simmons and others
    Workshop resource type

    Resilient Web Systems

    Inspiration & practical steps to take full advantage of the web

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Smashing Workshops on
    see all Workshop resources

2019

  1. Sample organized color swatches with hex and hsl values
    Talk resource type

    Agile Design Systems

    with meaningful code and automation

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Agile Alliance on
    • at Agile Denver on
    see all Talk resources
  2. text CSS is Awesome on background of sunset over water
    Workshop resource type

    Advanced CSS for Modern Applications

    with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Generate New York on
    • at Smashing Conf on
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  3. Giant pencil awarded to Miriam Suzanne for Best of CSS Dev Conf 2017
    Talk resource type

    Don’t Use My Grid System

    It’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Boulder Python on
    • at Covalence Conf on
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2018

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    Sketched design concept
    Talk resource type

    Planning Your Web Project

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Boost Biz Ed on
    • at EdTech Colorado on

2017

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  2. repeated grid of the same dog picture in different colors
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    The Great State of Design

    with CSS Grid Layout and Friends

    by Stacy Kvernmo

    Past

    • at Front-End Camp on
    • at CSSDay.io on
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2016

  1. David speaking about his slide showing legos and toy car
    Talk resource type

    Greater Than the Sum of Parts

    Integrating Pyramid, React, & Plone

    by David Glick

    Past

    • at Plone Digital Experience Conference on
    see all Talk resources
  2. Miriam being interviewed at a conference
    Talk resource type

    Sass Map Magic

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at CSSConf 2016 on
    • at CSS Summit on
    see all Talk resources
  3. woman grimacing beside the words, How many revisions? In Photoshop? In all screen sizes?
    Talk resource type

    Curing Design Complacency

    It’s easy to fall into old habits

    by Stacy Kvernmo

    Past

    • at WordCamp Chicago on
    • at UX Camp on
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2015

  1. sass guidelines and css guidelines
    Talk resource type

    No Pain No Gain

    CSS Code Reviews

    by Stacy Kvernmo

    Past

    • at SassConf 2015 on
    • at CSS Dev Conf on
    see all Talk resources
  2. Tools should fit you. Sorry, this hammer only builds patio chairs...
    Talk resource type

    Sassy Toolkits

    a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Frontend Zurich on
    • at WordCamp Denver on
    see all Talk resources

2014

  1. Susy is not a grid system
    Talk resource type

    Your Own Damn Susy System

    an introduction to the Susy layout toolkit

    by Miriam Suzanne

    Past

    • at Bmore Sass on
    • at The Mixin on
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  4. Carl speaking at a conference
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    Advanced Python

    by Carl Meyer

    Past

    • at ConFoo on
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2013

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2012

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2011

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