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Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar)28 May 2026
contrast-color() is that better CSS. The HTTP Archive Web Almanac has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The numbers have barely moved.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Eric Joseph L.)25 May 2026
This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at ProtoPie who help users turn their ideas into highly interactive animations and prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)22 May 2026
Many companies think they know fairly well what their users want and need, and how they make their decisions.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar)21 May 2026
sibling-index() and sibling-count(). Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without :nth-child() rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster)15 May 2026
In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but potentially millions in wasted engineering spend and lost business value.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco)13 May 2026
In the first part of this series, we talked about the Decision Node Audit. We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to pinpoint the exact moments it makes decisions based on...
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Kyrylo Levashov)5 May 2026
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...
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Joas Pambou)1 May 2026
More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as more data comes in.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive)27 Apr 2026
Through many discussions with industry colleagues, we’ve started hearing a phrase more often when swapping stories about AI adoption: “Now I don’t have to bug [someone].” Product designers don’t...
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster)22 Apr 2026
In early 2026, I noticed that the UX designer’s toolkit seemed to shift overnight. The industry standard “Should designers code?” debate was abruptly settled by the market, not through a consensus...
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Eleanor Hecks)20 Apr 2026
For web professionals, session management is a balancing act between user experience, cybersecurity, and resource usage.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco)7 Apr 2026
Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 seconds (or 30 minutes), and then it returns with a result.
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)1 Apr 2026
We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredible tool to rally the team around a shared purpose and document the values and...
Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developersby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster)26 Mar 2026
In the early days of the web, the search bar was a luxury, added to a site once it became “too big” to navigate by clicking.
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