Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In CSS, we can create “stacking contexts” where elements are visually placed one on top of the next in a three-dimensional sense that creates the perception of depth. Stacking contexts are incredibly useful, but they’re also widely misunderstood and often mistakenly […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Developing effective agentic AI requires a new research playbook. When systems plan, decide, and act on our behalf, UX moves beyond usability testing into the realm of trust, consent, and accountability. Victor Yocco outlines the research methods needed to design agentic […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 world. It’s 2026. We are operating in an era of incredible technological leaps, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 Smart Interface Design Patterns, a friendly video […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Penpot is experimenting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, which could lead to designers and developers being able to perform tasks in Penpot using AI that’s able to understand and interact with Penpot design files. Daniel Schwarz explains how Penpot MCP […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 to be doing?” This article looks at […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 covered. A new year is […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 patterns by Vitaly. When we think about people who are […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question. In my previous article, I explored how AI can help us create functional personas more efficiently. We looked at building personas that focus on […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of theMeasure UX & Design Impact(use the code 🎟IMPACTto save 20% off today). So we design and ship a shiny […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shows his techniques for creating Toon Text titles using modern CSS and SVG. After finishing a project that required me to learn everything I could about CSS and SVG animations, I […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 the eBook for instant download now or […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. It’s no longer just about styling documents, but about crafting dynamic, ergonomic, and robust applications with a native […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation. Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 patterns for building explainability into real products. In my last piece, […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 work. About 15 years ago, I was working at a […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More As the year winds down, many of us are busy wrapping up projects, meeting deadlines, or getting ready for the holiday season. Why not take a moment amid the end-of-year hustle to set the mood for December with some wintery desktop […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has become ingrained in internet browsing since personal computers gained momentum in the consumer electronics market. For nearly as long as people have been going online, web developers […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More 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 might like to read an excerpt from the book. […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Picture this: you join a new project, dive into the codebase, and within the first few hours, you discover something frustratingly familiar. Scattered throughout the stylesheets, you find multiple @keyframes definitions for the same basic animations. Three different fade-in effects, two […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by Cloudways If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-tuning a design, the next you’re troubleshooting a slow server or a […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in the console, it’s invisible. That’s […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it. It is, of course, perfectly understandable to not know something. The […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More This article is a sponsored by DebugBear There’s no single way to measure website performance. That said, the Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses as a ranking factor are a great starting point, as they cover different aspects of visitor […]