🌊 Over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups often leaves the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. Can AI-powered prototyping be the answer? Is the future “vibe coding” or a more structured, intent-driven approach? www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/inte...

✨ Creating motion can be tricky. Too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground — subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. Learn how to bring them into your projects: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/ambi...

👥 Personas often take a lot of work to create, yet deliver little value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/func...

🔍 Real-time search results power smarter apps, whether for SEO, price monitoring, AI training, or local data parsing. See how tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/serp...

🎨 Elastic and bounce effects are motion design favorites, but also some of the most time-consuming to create. Luckily, new tools make it easier. Meet Expressive Animator: lively animations in seconds, no tedious work of manual keyframe editing required: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/crea...

🌀 CSS Cascade Layers sound neat, but what happens when you drop them into a messy legacy codebase? Let’s talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/inte...

📺 After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in Part 1, it’s time to get practical. Explore the building blocks of the “10-foot experience” and how to best utilise them in your designs: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/desi...

🤖 Prompting is more than giving AI instructions. Think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. Let’s explore a designerly approach to prompting: one that blends creative briefing, interaction design, and structural clarity: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/prom...

📺 TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, often overlooked field. Guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still constrained by its legacy. Follow Milan into the history, quirks, and unshakable rules that dictate how we control these devices: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/desi...

🌐 PWAs are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but moving away from a browser environment can introduce usability issues. ↬ Declan explains how we can modify our app depending on what display mode is applied to mitigate these issues: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/opti...

✨ What would a week with AI in your UX workflow actually look like? A grounded, week-long experiment shows how to integrate AI into your design process without losing the human touch: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/week...

🎨 The colors we choose are the silent language of our digital products, and speaking it fluently is key to success. Rodolpho Henrique guides you through building effective and scalable color palettes with accessibility in mind: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/psyc...

🤖 AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin maps four core stages — analytics, ideation, prototyping, and visual design — to show where AI helps and where it doesn’t: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/beyo...

🎯 Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. From research and brainstorming to testing and beyond, advanced prompting can speed up your workflow and improve results. Here’s how to put it to work: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/desi...

Internationalization isn’t just translation, but also dates, plurals, name sorting, and more, all tailored to each locale. Instead of relying on heavy third-party libraries, modern JavaScript offers the Intl API — a powerful, native way to handle i18n: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/powe...

✨ Talking points. Smart questions. A compelling story. This guide helps you prepare for your UX job interview. And remember: no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/ux-j...

💥 Event listeners power interactivity in JavaScript — but if not removed properly, they can cause memory leaks. And what if you need to pass parameters? Amejimaobari Ollornwi shares which JS features make it all possible and safe: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/hand...

🤖 Designing a new AI feature? Where do you even begin? From first steps to design flows and interactions, here’s a simple, systematic approach to building AI experiences that stick: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/desi...

🧙‍♂️ The Wizard of Oz method is a proven UX research tool that simulates real interactions to reveal authentic user behavior. Explores its fundamentals, advanced techniques, and key considerations — including its relevance in the emerging field of agentic AI: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/unma...

⏱️ As always in design, timing matters — and so do timely notifications. Let’s explore how we can improve the notifications UX: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/desi...

🧩 Traditional page builders have shaped how we build WordPress sites for years. Meet Droip — a modern, no-code visual builder offering cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/mode...

✨ Bridging the gap between user research insights and actual organizational action — with a clear roadmap for impact: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/turn...

Meet our newest book, “Accessible UX Research” — now available for pre-order. Michele A. Williams takes us for a deep dive into the real world of UX research, with a roadmap for including users with different abilities and needs. ↬ Get your copy: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

I'll buy an eBook copy of Accessible UX Research for the first five folks who are interested! I'll need an email address to send a copy to when it's published (currently in pre-order). If you're into user research and disability, this book is for you. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

I got the chance to read this book about accessible UX research by Dr. Michele A. Williams a couple of weeks ago and I loved it! Go and grab a copy! www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

✨ Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone? Let’s find out: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/desi...

🧩 So, you want to set up a new design system for your product. How do you get it up and running from scratch? These handy PDF worksheets and tools will help you get the design system effort up and running — and adopted: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/desi...

Remember that last team brainstorming session full of “brilliant” ideas? How many of them stuck? Did leadership act on any? Eric Olive challenges the value of traditional brainstorming and explores more effective ways to spark creativity and improve UX: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/fewe...

🧩 Wonderful news from @penpot.app! The team continues its mission to build a free design tool with powerful features and seamless code integration. Their latest release introduces support for native design tokens. Let’s take a closer look: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/inte...

↬ Introducing Anima Playground, a tool that transforms your Figma designs into fully functional web apps automatically: smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/anim... (This article is kindly supported by @Anima App 💖)

Poor internet connectivity doesn’t have to mean poor UX. With PWA technologies like IndexedDB, service workers, and the Background Sync API, you can build an offline-friendly image upload system that queues uploads and retries them automatically. Here’s how: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/buil...

If you open @smashingmagazine.com, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁 Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️ What you think?! #accessibility www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...

Found a good article on @smashingmagazine.com about SRI. And learned how it works along the way. www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/04/unde...

It’s such a great feeling to see your article featured in print, in a @smashingmagazine.com book curated by Addy Osmani 🙏

When passion for accessibility meets business indifference, what bridges the gap? Gloria Diaz Alonso shares how she turned frustration into strategy — by learning to speak the language of business. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/how-...

Content management is evolving. The traditional monolithic CMS approach is giving way to headless architectures, where content management and presentation are decoupled. ↬ Building a Drupal > Storyblok migration tool: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/buil... (Article supported by @storyblok.com 💖)

So @smashingmagazine.com ran a brilliant (as always!) free event on the topic of CSS a few days ago and the recordings are live on YouTube now. I absolutely recommend all 3 talks. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🤖 Companies have been shifting focus to “synthetic,” AI-driven user testing. However, as convenient as it might seem, it’s dangerous, expensive, and usually diminishes user value. Let’s examine why exactly it is problematic and how we can argue against it: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

✨ You probably already know that you can use developer tools in your browser to make on-the-spot changes to a webpage — simply click the node in the Inspector and make your edits. But have you tried document.designMode? ↬ Victor Ayomipo shares the details: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/prev...

🎯 What makes WordPress websites such a prime target for hackers? Anders Johansson delves into how WordPress SQL injection attacks work and shares strategies for removing and preventing them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Newly introduced by Google, LCP subparts help you pinpoint where page load delays come from. Matt Zeunert unpacks what LCP subparts are, what they mean for your website speed, and how you can measure them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

🔍 Effective data storytelling isn’t a black box. By integrating UX research and psychology, you can craft more persuasive narratives. Victor Yocco & Angelica Lo Duca share a five-step framework to create data stories that resonate cognitively and emotionally: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/huma...

🕵️‍♂️ The OWASP vulnerabilities list is the perfect starting point for web developers looking to strengthen their security expertise. Let’s unravel with @ericburel.tech how these vulnerabilities materialize in full-stack web applications and how to prevent them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/how-...

Optimizing web performance means looking beyond surface-level metrics. In this article, you’ll learn more about what TTFB is, why reducing server response time alone isn’t enough for optimization, and more: smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/time... (Article is kindly sponsored by @debugbear.com 💖)

🧩 Monolithic apps are rare in modern web development. Today’s apps use specialized services, each handling specific aspects of functionality — a shift shaped by decades of evolving data transfer. Explore this journey and its impact on modern architectures: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/inte...

🚀 Design systems play a crucial role in today’s digital landscape, providing a blueprint for consistent and user-friendly interfaces. But there’s another tool that deserves equal attention: the digital playbook. Let’s turn the page: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/digi...

🎯 We’re getting spoiled with new CSS animation features — scroll-driven animations, view transitions, and more. But small ease-of-life features often make the biggest impact! Explore @​starting-style and transition-behavior — two must-know additions: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/tran...

🌐 Is open source the backbone of modern software development? Drawing on his deep involvement in community- and company-driven initiatives, Alvaro Saburido explores the current state and challenges of OSS authoring, sharing lessons from firsthand experience: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/navi...

✨ A once-revered perk of some tech workplaces, the status of ‘side project time’ seems to have slipped in recent years. Frederick O’Brien believes it deserves a comeback. What do you think? www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/ode-...

🌐 Browsers manage how resources like images and scripts are fetched and prioritized, with Chrome and Safari implementing a “Tight Mode” to constrain which resources load and when. Geoff Graham explains its purpose, triggers, and browser-specific differences: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/tigh...