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New technologies and innovative concepts frequently enter the product development lifecycle, promising to revolutionize user experiences. However, even the most ingenious ideas risk failure without...
Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research — Smashing Magazine
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Traditional WordPress page builders had their moment. Builders like Elementor, Divi, and Oxygen have been around for years. So long, in f...
Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed — Smashing Magazine
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In many products, setting notification channels on mute is a default, rather than an exception. The reason for that is their high frequency, which creates disruptions and eventually notification fa...
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Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX — Smashing Magazine
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Once upon a time, CSS was purely presentational. It imperatively handled the fonts, colors, backgrounds, spacing, and layouts, among other styles, for markup languages. It was a language for looks,...
CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language — Smashing Magazine
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We’ve all been there: you pour your heart and soul into conducting meticulous user research. You gather insightful data, create det...
Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change — Smashing Magazine
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For many of us, July is the epitome of summer. The time for spending every free minute outside to enjoy the sun and those seemingly endless summer days, whether it’s in a nearby park, by a lake, or...
Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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A few years ago, my mum, who is in her 80s and not tech-savvy, almost got scammed. She received an email from what appeared to be her bank. It looked convincing, with a professional logo, clean for...
Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams? — Smashing Magazine
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In the [first part of decoding the SVG path pair](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/decoding-svg-path-element-line-commands/), we mostly dealt with converting things from semantic tags (line...
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Decoding The SVG path Element: Curve And Arc Commands — Smashing Magazine
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CSS is wild, really wild. And tricky. But let’s talk specifically about specificity.
When writing CSS, it’s close to impossible that you haven’t faced the frustration of styles not applying as exp...
CSS Cascade Layers Vs. BEM Vs. Utility Classes
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UX research can take so much of the guesswork out of the design process! But it’s easy to forget just how _different_ people are and how their needs and preferences can vary. We can’t predict the n...
Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine
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If you haven’t encountered ARIA before, great! It’s a chance to learn something new and exciting. If you have heard of ARIA before, this might help you better understand it or maybe even teach you ...
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine
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I recently came across an old jQuery tutorial demonstrating a “moving highlight” navigation bar and decided the concept was due for a modern upgrade. With this pattern, the border around the active...
Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS — Smashing Magazine
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In a previous article, we looked at some [practical examples of how to code SVG by hand](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/09/svg-coding-examples-recipes-writing-vectors-by-hand/). In that guid...
Decoding The SVG path Element
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When people talk about UX, it’s usually about the things they can see and interact with, like wireframes and prototypes, smart interactions, and design tools like Figma, Miro, or Maze. Some of the ...
Collaboration: The Most Underrated UX Skill No One Talks About — Smashing Magazine
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SVG animations take me back to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons I watched as a kid. Shows like _Wacky Races_, _The Perils of Penelope Pitstop_, and, of course, [_Yogi Bear_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Optimising SVGs — Smashing Magazine
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You’ve drawn fifty versions of the same screen — and you still hate every one of them. Begrudgingly, you pick three, show them to your product manager, and hear: _“Looks cool, but the idea doesn’t ...
Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop — Smashing Magazine
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Neurodivergent needs are often considered as an edge case that doesn’t fit into common user journeys or flows. Neurodiversi...
Designing For Neurodiversity — Smashing Magazine
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There’s an artist in everyone. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect moment with a camera or love to grab pen and paper to create little doodles or pieces of...
Prelude To Summer (June 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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The web is beginning to part ways with third-party cookies, a technology it once heavily relied on. [Introduced in 1994 by Netscape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%5Fcookie) to support features...
Reliably Detecting Third-Party Cookie Blocking In 2025 — Smashing Magazine
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In many companies, data, findings, and insights are all used interchangeably. Slack conversations circle around convincing data points, statistically significant findings, reliable insights, and em...
Data Vs. Findings Vs. Insights In UX — Smashing Magazine
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I think we, as engineers and designers, have a lot to gain by stepping outside of our worlds. That’s why in previous pieces I’ve been drawn towards [architecture](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2...
What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design — Smashing Magazine
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The SMIL specification was introduced by the W3C in 1998 for synchronizing multimedia. This was long before CSS animations or JavaScript-based animation libraries were available. It was built into ...
Smashing Animations Part 3: SMIL’s Not Dead Baby, SMIL’s Not Dead — Smashing Magazine
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So we want to set up a new design system for your product. How do we get it up and running from scratch? Do we start with key stakeholders, UI audits, or naming conventions? And what are some of th...
Design System In 90 Days — Smashing Magazine
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In my experience, most UX teams find themselves primarily implementing other people’s ideas rather than leading the conversation about user experience. This happens because stakeholders and decisio...
Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework — Smashing Magazine
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What do the Suez Canal, the Roman Goddess Libertas, and ancient Egyptian sculptures have in common? The Statue of Liberty.
Surprising? Sure, but the connections make sense when you know the story ...
Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity — Smashing Magazine
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