• New Jan 20, 2026

  Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design

  Amit Sheen takes a hard look at the “Pixel Perfect” legacy concept, explaining why it’s failing us and redefining what “perfection” actually looks like in a multi-device, fluid...

• New Jan 14, 2026

  Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour

  CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/) shares practical techniques for using them to...

• New Jan 12, 2026

  UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026

  How to shape your career path for 2026, with decision trees for designers and a UX skills self-assessment matrix. The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. Brought to you by Sm...

• New Jan 8, 2026

  Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows

  [Penpot](https://penpot.app/?utm_source=SmashingMagazine&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=MCPserver) is experimenting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, which could lead to designers and...

• New Jan 7, 2026

  Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch

  Most developers spend their days fixing bugs, shipping features, and jumping into the next sprint without even thinking about it. After a while, you begin to ask yourself, “Is this still what I want...

• New Dec 31, 2025

  Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

  Whether 2026 has already begun as you’re reading this or you’re still waiting for the big countdown to start, how about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for the new year? We’ve got you...

• New Dec 30, 2025

  How To Design For (And With) Deaf People

  Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a **friendly video course on UX** and design...

• New Dec 23, 2025

  Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas

  Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single...

• New Dec 19, 2025

  How To Measure The Impact Of Features

  Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IM...

• New Dec 17, 2025

  Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG

  In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows his techniques for creating [Toon Text...

• New Dec 9, 2025

  Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download

  We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which means soon the book will go to the printer. Order...

• New Dec 9, 2025

  State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025

  CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. Here is an unpacking of the standout highlights...

• New Dec 8, 2025

  How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

  Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI...

• New Dec 5, 2025

  Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners

  Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design...

• New Dec 2, 2025

  Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

  CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own...

• New Nov 30, 2025

  A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

  With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly...

• New Nov 27, 2025

  The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA

  CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive....

• New Nov 25, 2025

  Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)

  We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you...

• New Nov 24, 2025

  Designing For Stress And Emergency

  Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a...

• New Nov 21, 2025

  Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects

  Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing...

• New Nov 18, 2025

  From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation

  Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web...

• New Nov 14, 2025

  CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers

  Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own...

• New Nov 13, 2025

  Older Tech In The Browser Stack

  There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them...

• New Nov 11, 2025

  Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

  There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able...

• New Nov 7, 2025

  Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties

  SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains his technique for animating SVG elements...

• New Nov 5, 2025

  Six Key Components of UX Strategy

  Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achieving company goals. Part of the Me...

• New Nov 4, 2025

  How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot

  With component variants, design systems become more flexible, letting you reuse the same component while adapting its look or state with ease. In this article, Daniel Schwarz demonstrates how design...

• New Oct 31, 2025

  Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)

  The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free....

• New Oct 27, 2025

  JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators

  Here is a lesson on Iterators. Iterables implement the iterable iteration interface, and iterators implement the iterator iteration interface. Sounds confusing? Mat breaks it all down in the...

• New Oct 22, 2025

  Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)

  Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations sit in the middle. They’re subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. In part two of...

• New Oct 17, 2025

  AI In UX: Achieve More With Less

  A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons learned from real client projects across user...

• New Oct 16, 2025

  How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore

  Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence...

• New Oct 13, 2025

  The Grayscale Problem

  From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to...

• New Oct 6, 2025

  Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With ``, ``, And CSS Media Queries

  SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and...

• New Oct 3, 2025

  Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)

  Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models,...

• New Sep 30, 2025

  Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

  How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created...

• New Sep 26, 2025

  From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant

  What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into...

• New Sep 24, 2025

  Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)

  Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether...

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