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New Sep 4, 2025
Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/designing-tv-evergreen-pattern-shapes-tv-experiences/), it’s time...
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New Aug 31, 2025
A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful....
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New Aug 29, 2025
Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. This second article on AI augmenting design work introduces...
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New Aug 27, 2025
Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences (Part 1)
TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, and often overlooked field. It’s been guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still firmly constrained by its legacy. Follow Milan into the...
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New Aug 26, 2025
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but in moving away from a browser environment, we can introduce usability issues. This article covers how we can...
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New Aug 22, 2025
A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer
If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your...
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New Aug 20, 2025
The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design
AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key to unlocking sustainable design and development. But do these gains outweigh the environmental cost of...
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New Aug 18, 2025
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design
AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin walks through four core stages — from analytics and ideation to prototyping...
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New Aug 15, 2025
The Psychology Of Color In UX And Digital Products
Rodolpho Henrique guides you through the essential aspects of color in digital design and user experience, from the practical steps of creating effective and scalable color palettes to critical...
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New Aug 13, 2025
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career
Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell shows how those lessons can sharpen your instincts,...
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New Aug 11, 2025
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases
Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. Ilia and Marina explore how advanced prompting can empower different product & design use cases, speeding...
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New Aug 8, 2025
The Power Of The Intl API: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization
Internationalization isn’t just translation. It’s about formatting dates, pluralizing words, sorting names, and more, all according to specific locales. Instead of relying on heavy third-party...
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New Aug 6, 2025
Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started
Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow,...
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New Aug 5, 2025
UX Job Interview Helpers
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...
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New Jul 31, 2025
Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. The wallpapers are designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded...
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New Jul 30, 2025
The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution
The Core Model is a practical methodology that flips traditional digital development on its head. Instead of starting with solutions or structure, we begin with a hypothesis about what users need and...
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New Jul 28, 2025
Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
Web Components are more than just Custom Elements. Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, and Custom Elements each play a role. In this article, Russell Beswick demonstrates how Shadow DOM fits into the broader...
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New Jul 25, 2025
Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
Today, roughly 10% of people are left-handed. Yet most products — digital and physical — aren’t designed with it in mind. Let’s change that. More design patterns in Sm...
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New Jul 21, 2025
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters
Event listeners are essential for interactivity in JavaScript, but they can quietly cause memory leaks if not removed properly. And what if your event listener needs parameters? That’s where things...
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New Jul 18, 2025
Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX
Ensuring your product communicates clearly to a global audience is not just about localisation. Even for products that have a proper localisation process, English often remains the default language...
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New Jul 16, 2025
Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones
Learn why flip phones still matter in 2025, and how you can build and launch web apps for these tiny...
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New Jul 14, 2025
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
Designing a new AI feature? Where do you even begin? Here’s a simple, practical overview with useful design patterns for better AI...
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New Jul 10, 2025
Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research
The Wizard of Oz method is a proven UX research tool that simulates real interactions to uncover authentic user behavior. Victor Yocco unpacks the core principles of the WOZ method, explores advanced...
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New Jul 8, 2025
Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
Traditional page builders have shaped how we build WordPress sites for years. Let’s take a closer look at [Droip](https://droip.com/), a modern, no-code visual builder, and explore how it redefines...
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New Jul 7, 2025
Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
As always in design, timing matters, and so do timely notifications. Let’s explore how we might improve the notifications UX. More design patterns in our Sm...
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New Jul 2, 2025
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the `if()` function. Is it still...
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New Jul 1, 2025
Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change
Bridging the gap between user research insights and actual organizational action — with a clear roadmap for...
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New Jun 30, 2025
Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
July is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, they are bound to bring some good...
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New Jun 25, 2025
Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams?
As online scams become more sophisticated, Carrie Webster explores whether good UX can serve as a frontline defense, particularly for non-tech-savvy older users navigating today’s digital...
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New Jun 23, 2025
Decoding The SVG path Element: Curve And Arc Commands
On her quest to teach you how to code vectors by hand, Myriam Frisano’s second installment of a `path` deep dive explores the most complex aspects of SVG’s most powerful element. She’ll help you...
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New Jun 20, 2025
Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book
Meet “Accessible UX Research,” our upcoming book to make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print edition shipping Fall 2025. e...
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New Jun 19, 2025
CSS Cascade Layers Vs. BEM Vs. Utility Classes: Specificity Control
CSS can be unpredictable — and specificity is often the culprit. Victor Ayomipo breaks down how and why your styles might not behave as expected, and why understanding specificity is better than...
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New Jun 16, 2025
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA
[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning...
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New Jun 11, 2025
Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS
In this tutorial, Blake Lundquist walks us through two methods of creating the “moving-highlight” navigation pattern using only plain JavaScript and CSS. The first technique uses the...
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New Jun 9, 2025
Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands
SVG is easy — until you meet `path`. However, it’s not as confusing as it initially looks. In this first installment of a pair of articles, Myriam Frisano aims to teach you the basics of `` and its s...
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New Jun 5, 2025
Collaboration: The Most Underrated UX Skill No One Talks About
We often spotlight wireframes, research, or tools like Figma, but none of that moves the needle if we can’t collaborate well. Great UX doesn’t happen in isolation. It takes conversations with...
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New Jun 4, 2025
Smashing Animations Part 4: Optimising SVGs
What’s the best way to make your SVGs faster, simpler, and more manageable? In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains the process he relies on *to* prepare, optimise,...
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New Jun 3, 2025
Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop
Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work,...
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New Jun 2, 2025
Designing For Neurodiversity
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...
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May 31, 2025
Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new...