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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · 20d

✨ 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · 24d

👥 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...

Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · 25d

🔍 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · 27d

🎨 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Sep 10

🌀 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...

The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it’s about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers with...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Sep 5

📺 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 29

🤖 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 28

📺 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 26

🌐 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 22

✨ 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 21

🎨 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 19

🤖 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 11

🎯 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 8

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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Aug 6

✨ 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 22

💥 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 17

🤖 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...

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 11

🧙‍♂️ 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...

Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 9

⏱️ 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 8

🧩 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...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jul 2

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

Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jun 20

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...

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · Jun 19

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...

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 shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...

Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · Jun 19

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...

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 shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...