Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Johan Grobler)·1d ago
<img> tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript. We know that everything on the web is a box by default, but you’ll find many animated <div>s pretending to be circles.
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)·8d ago
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.
Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Alexey Kopytin)·10d ago
This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Isadora Agency who help enterprise brands and market leaders navigate digital, evolve profitably, and launch unforgettable websites...
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Jad Joubran)·14d ago
Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and we move on.
Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke)·21d ago
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...
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Andy Budd)·23d ago
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.
Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi)·24d ago
This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at MacPaw who not only believe that making great products requires seeing the world in a different light, but also strive to innovate and...
Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar)·21 Jul 2026
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...
When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Ayomipo)·17 Jul 2026
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...
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)·15 Jul 2026
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...
From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Anastasia Sycheva)·10 Jul 2026
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...
Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Kat Homan)·9 Jul 2026
Mental health applications keep facing a continuing, measurable crisis: many people stop using them quickly.
Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Zareen Tasnim)·7 Jul 2026
This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Kirki who makes designing and building websites a lot easier than ever. Thank you!
Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)·3 Jul 2026
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.
Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco)·2 Jul 2026
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...
Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Mikhail Prosmitskiy)·30 Jun 2026
This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Level Access, who help organizations create accessible and legally compliant websites, mobile apps, software, and other digital...
Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Pratik Joglekar)·16 Jun 2026
In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy that didn’t exist. The airline refused to honor it.
The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster)·12 Jun 2026
For decades, science fiction has cushioned us with the idea that the “android revolution” was a distant fantasy. But the reality is unfolding rapidly.
The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Kate Kalcevich)·10 Jun 2026
In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how best to perform accessibility testing with people with cognitive disabilities.
How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready — Smashing Magazine
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)·3 Jun 2026
AI-generated prototypes often don’t deliver consistently decent results because of tiny inconsistencies scattered all across a design system.
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