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September 15, 2025
Meet the Medium Design Team

Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More Join us at Medium Day on September 19th for a behind the scenes look at recent feature updates. As any practicing designer knows, shipping feature updates isn’t always straightforward. Our team is excited to share this peek into the processes and philosophies behind our design decisions, followed by a […]

September 15, 2025
Meet the Medium Design Team

Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More Join us at Medium Day on September 19th for a behind the scenes look at recent feature updates. As any practicing designer knows, shipping feature updates isn’t always straightforward. Our team is excited to share this peek into the processes and philosophies behind our design decisions, followed by […]

September 15, 2025
Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines the process, making it possible to produce lively animations in seconds, bypassing the tedious work of manual keyframe editing. In the […]

September 12, 2025
From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I once worked with a fleet operations team that monitored dozens of vehicles in multiple cities. Their dashboard showed fuel consumption, live GPS locations, and real-time driver updates. Yet the team struggled to see what needed urgent attention. The problem was […]

September 10, 2025
Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More You can always get a fantastic overview of things in Stephenie Eckles’ article, “Getting Started With CSS Cascade Layers”. But let’s talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti. I could […]

September 4, 2025
Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Having covered the developmental history and legacy of TV in Part 1, let’s now delve into more practical matters. As a quick reminder, the “10-foot experience” and its reliance on the six core buttons of any remote form the basis of […]

August 31, 2025
A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More September is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for some new wallpapers! For more than 14 years already, our monthly wallpapers series has been the perfect occasion for artists and designers to challenge their creative skills and take […]

August 29, 2025
Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, we followed Kate’s weeklong journey of her first AI-augmented design sprint. She had three realizations through the process: AI isn’t a co-pilot (yet); it’s more like a smart, eager intern.One with […]

August 27, 2025
Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences (Part 1)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Television sets have been the staple of our living rooms for decades. We watch, we interact, and we control, but how often do we design for them? TV design flew under my “radar” for years, until one day I found myself […]

August 26, 2025
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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. Declan covers how we can modify our app depending on what […]

August 22, 2025
A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 design workflow. Artificial Intelligence isn’t new, […]

August 20, 2025
The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 using energy-hungry AI tools? Artificial intelligence is increasingly automating large […]

August 18, 2025
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 and visual design — to show where AI […]

August 15, 2025
The Psychology Of Color In UX And Digital Products

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 accessibility considerations. Color plays a pivotal role in crafting compelling user experiences […]

August 13, 2025
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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, strengthen collaboration, and help you become a […]

August 11, 2025
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More AI is almost everywhere — it writes text, makes music, generates code, draws pictures, runs research, chats with you — and apparently even understands people better than they understand themselves?! It’s a lot to take in. The pace is wild, and […]

August 8, 2025
The Power Of The Intl API: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More It’s a common misconception that internationalization (i18n) is simply about translating text. While crucial, translation is merely one facet. One of the complexities lies in adapting information for diverse cultural expectations: How do you display a date in Japan versus Germany? […]

August 6, 2025
Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More A design system is more than just a set of colors and buttons. It’s a shared language that helps designers and developers build good products together. At its core, a design system includes tokens (like colors, spacing, fonts), components (such as […]

August 5, 2025
UX Job Interview Helpers

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More When talking about job interviews for a UX position, we often discuss how to leave an incredible impression and how to negotiate the right salary. But it’s only one part of the story. The other part is to be prepared, to […]

July 31, 2025
Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for new and unique designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than 14 years ago, and from the very beginning […]

July 30, 2025
The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Ever sat in a meeting where everyone jumped straight to solutions? “We need a new app!” “Let’s redesign the homepage!” “AI will fix everything!” This solution-first thinking is endemic in digital development — and it’s why so many projects fail to […]

July 28, 2025
Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More It’s common to see Web Components directly compared to framework components. But most examples are actually specific to Custom Elements, which is one piece of the Web Components picture. It’s easy to forget Web Components are actually a set of individual […]

July 25, 2025
Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Many products — digital and physical — are focused on “average” users — a statistical representation of the user base, which often overlooks or dismisses anything that deviates from that average, or happens to be an edge case. But people are […]

July 21, 2025
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More JavaScript event listeners are very important, as they exist in almost every web application that requires interactivity. As common as they are, it is also essential for them to be managed properly. Improperly managed event listeners can lead to memory leaks […]

July 18, 2025
Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX

Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More A few years ago, I was in a design review at a fintech company, polishing the expense management flows. It was a routine session where we reviewed the logic behind content and design decisions. While looking over the statuses for submitted […]

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