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How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore

Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire tru...

Oct 16, 2025 • 5 min read

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AI In UX: Achieve More With Less

A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons l...

Oct 17, 2025 • 5 min read

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Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)

Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations sit in the middle. They’re subtle, slow-moving details that add at...

Oct 22, 2025 • 5 min read

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JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators

Here is a lesson on Iterators. Iterables implement the iterable iteration interface, and iterators implement the iterator iteration interface. Sounds...

Oct 27, 2025 • 5 min read

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Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)

The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed by the community for the...

Oct 31, 2025 • 5 min read

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How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot

With component variants, design systems become more flexible, letting you reuse the same component while adapting its look or state with ease. In this...

Nov 04, 2025 • 5 min read

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Six Key Components of UX Strategy

Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achi...

Nov 05, 2025 • 5 min read

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Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `<use>` And CSS Custom Properties

SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke e...

Nov 07, 2025 • 5 min read

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Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But ev...

Nov 11, 2025 • 5 min read

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Older Tech In The Browser Stack

There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new...

Nov 13, 2025 • 5 min read

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CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers

Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own p...

Nov 14, 2025 • 5 min read

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From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation

Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work.

Nov 18, 2025 • 5 min read

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Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects

Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frust...

Nov 21, 2025 • 5 min read

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Designing For Stress And Emergency

Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the...

Nov 24, 2025 • 5 min read

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Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)

We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan &mdash; will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s...

Nov 25, 2025 • 5 min read

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The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many...

Nov 27, 2025 • 5 min read

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A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re...

Nov 30, 2025 • 5 min read

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Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

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...

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min read

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How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.

Dec 08, 2025 • 5 min read

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State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025

CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript....

Dec 09, 2025 • 5 min read