Виталий Фридман — Big Bang Redesign: Smashing Magazine’s 2017 Relaunch, a Case Study

You’ve been there: big bang redesigns are usually a very, very bad idea. Redesigning and rebuilding an existing website from scratch is risky and unpredictable, and in many cases the level of complexity is highly underrated and underestimated. In mid-2016, Smashing Magazine has decided to make a big switch from the existing WordPress setup to an entirely new design, entirely new architecture (JAM Stack) and an entirely new, GitHub-based, editorial workflow. In this talk, Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief an