Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions. Plus, why the caret is the safest icon choice. You’ll find more useful guides and […]
Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More Try out dark mode by going to your user menu on the top-right nav and selecting the Appearance option. One of the sources of optimism for me about this AI era is the way that we‘ve run out of excuses to build the best quality products for our users. […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how the new CSSrandom()function brings a little imperfection to the web without JavaScript libraries or […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More What can digital transformation teach us about AI adoption? Paul Boag revisits his book Digital Adaptation to show how lessons from the past can help organizations navigate the challenges of AI today. The way I see most organizations roll out AI […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, friendly video courses on UX and design patterns by Vitaly. Naming is hard. The language we use shapes […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to brighten your screens, and maybe spark some creativity along the way. Misty mornings, leaves shining in […]
Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More Here’s what the opportunity is about Vintage collage of a card catalog, handwritten letter, and a hand writing with a fountain pen, overlaid with the text: Medium is hiring a Staff Product Designer. Today we are starting a search for a Staff Product Designer to join Medium— a role […]
Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More Sessions are available to re-watch until 🎃 Oct 31 Medium Day 2026 is wrapped, but through the power of the internet, you can still partake. All of our sessions are recorded and available for free, on-demand, until Halloween night PST. Yes, “Halloween night” is a time and date, arguably […]
Source: Medium.design - Medium | Read More And the warm-up mix I listened to ahead of the talk Medium Day is our biggest gathering of humans who love reading and writing around the world. It’s a full day of sessions spanning a diverse range of topics for writers and technologists alike, and it’s totally free. Grab […]
Source: Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers | Read More Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container queries help reusable components respond naturally to the contexts in which they […]
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 […]