Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
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Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 10:00 am
How To Measure The Impact Of Features
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 10:00 am
Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows his techniques for creating [Toon Text titl...
Posted on 17 December 2025 | 10:00 am
Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Wh...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
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 JavaScri...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 10:00 am
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.
Posted on 8 December 2025 | 8:00 am
Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
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. Vi...
Posted on 5 December 2025 | 3:00 pm
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 u...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 10:00 am
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’...
Posted on 30 November 2025 | 9:00 am
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, m...
Posted on 27 November 2025 | 10:00 am
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 — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insigh...
Posted on 25 November 2025 | 6:00 pm
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 ...
Posted on 24 November 2025 | 1:00 pm
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 fr...
Posted on 21 November 2025 | 8:00 am
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.
Posted on 18 November 2025 | 10:00 am
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 ow...
Posted on 14 November 2025 | 1:00 pm
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 ...
Posted on 13 November 2025 | 8:00 am
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...
Posted on 11 November 2025 | 10:00 am
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 Clark...
Posted on 7 November 2025 | 3:00 pm
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 a...
Posted on 5 November 2025 | 1:00 pm
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 t...
Posted on 4 November 2025 | 10:00 am
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 t...
Posted on 31 October 2025 | 12:00 pm
JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators
Here is a lesson on Iterators. Iterables implement the iterable iteration interface, and iterators implement the iterator iteration interface. Soun...
Posted on 27 October 2025 | 1:00 pm
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...
Posted on 22 October 2025 | 1:00 pm
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 lesson...
Posted on 17 October 2025 | 8:00 am
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 ...
Posted on 16 October 2025 | 1:00 pm
The Grayscale Problem
From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digi...
Posted on 13 October 2025 | 10:00 am
Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With `<symbol>`, `<use>`, And CSS Media Queries
SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he bui...
Posted on 6 October 2025 | 1:00 pm
Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)
Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your...
Posted on 3 October 2025 | 10:00 am
Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tr...
Posted on 30 September 2025 | 11:00 am
From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, ...
Posted on 26 September 2025 | 10:00 am
Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)
Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerous...
Posted on 24 September 2025 | 5:00 pm
Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
Creating motion can be tricky. Too much and it’s distracting. Too little and a design feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground — subtle...
Posted on 22 September 2025 | 1:00 pm
The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence
With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interfa...
Posted on 19 September 2025 | 10:00 am
How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website
As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pra...
Posted on 18 September 2025 | 10:00 am
SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data
From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. ...
Posted on 16 September 2025 | 5:00 pm
Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow
For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this s...
Posted on 16 September 2025 | 8:00 am
Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator
Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines ...
Posted on 15 September 2025 | 10:00 am
From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of ...
Posted on 12 September 2025 | 3:00 pm
Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project
The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it’s abou...
Posted on 10 September 2025 | 10:00 am
Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/designing-tv-e...
Posted on 4 September 2025 | 10:00 am