Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for the return on a design initiative. Sooner or […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences. Ever since the commercialisation […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More For more than 15 years already, our monthly wallpapers series has been the perfect opportunity for creatives of all backgrounds to put their skills to the test. You don’t have to meet stakeholder or client requirements; for a change, it’s just […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In organisations today, data has never been more available. Dashboards and performance decks exist for almost every function — sales, product, marketing, operations — and the tools to build them have never been more accessible. And yet, in weekly standups and […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Fimo Every website is at its best the day it ships. The final branch merges, the site goes live exactly as designed, and it is briefly perfect. It will never be this good again. Not […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More We know that everything on the web is a box by default, but you’ll find many animated <div>s pretending to be circles. But if you’ve ever met a real <circle>, you’ll know that they’ve got a lot more going for them. […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More There’s been a lot of confusion and panic this week about “huge fines”, “drastic measures” and “sweeping new AI rules” in the EU. In reality, it’s a lot more narrow — and a lot more sensible. And mostly it’s about making […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Isadora Agency When front-end developers and UX engineers are tasked with building a web interface that feels tactile, bouncy, or destructive, the industry instinct is almost always the same: reach for a physics engine. Frameworks […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and we move on. But the web platform keeps moving too, and a surprising number of the libraries sitting in your […]
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 provide you with inspiring designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than 15 years ago, and from the very beginning to […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Designers have spent years saying they would do better work if the organisation got out of the way. Not always in those exact words, obviously. It usually comes out as something more reasonable: we didn’t get enough engineering time, product had […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by MacPaw The phrase “artificial intelligence” has many excited, especially those in tech. But for those of us in creative fields like digital art and design, AI can be more concerning than it is exciting. AI-generated […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More React Server Components don’t send HTML to your browser. They don’t send JSON either. When a server component renders, what actually travels over the wire is a custom streaming protocol called Flight. It’s a line-delimited format with its own type system, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More We’ve all heard of the sacred rule in modern web development, the rule never to be broken. The rule of “Never block the main thread.” You almost can’t miss it as a web developer; it’s in almost every performance guide, and […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Many companies silently assume that everybody wants more AI in their lives. That people are craving new AI features, new AI products, new AI workflows — that would all magically replace all existing outdated practices and broken ways of working. But […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More When a branding project fails, it usually happens long before the logo stage: in the strategy phase, when words like “modern,” “trustworthy,” “premium,” “friendly,” and “disruptive” are left undefined. The result is a gap between what the brand is supposed to […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Mental health applications keep facing a continuing, measurable crisis: many people stop using them quickly. The data is stark: almost 95% of users who open the app on day 1 abandon the app by day 30, with a median 30-day retention […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Kirki For years, WordPress users have relied on traditional page builders to create websites without writing code. While these builders made web design more accessible, many still come with familiar compromises — rigid layouts, reliance […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More We often hear about shiny new tools that change everything (yet again). But in practice, most people don’t need more tools to deal with in their daily lives. What we actually need are better integrations of useful capabilities that neatly align […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The design community has entered a period of conversational tunnel vision. Because Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on dialogue, the industry has collectively decided that the chat bubble is the natural home for every AI capability. While the chat interface […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an operational capability rather than a compliance checklist or end-of-project audit, and what that looks like in […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More July is just around the corner, and that means… It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! The scent […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and product teams to accept uncertainty, decipher AI outputs with nuance, and make smart, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More We have officially moved past the era of humanoid robots as mere public relations stunts. As they become increasingly lifelike, society may soon face profound social, psychological, and ethical challenges. What happens when the boundary between humans and machines becomes almost […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities. In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine […]