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So, I love drawing birds with code. Inspired by my brother’s love for birdwatching, I admire the uniqueness of their feathers, colors, and sounds. But what I notice most is the way their bodies cur...
Mastering SVG Arcs — Smashing Magazine
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Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and...
How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy — Smashing Magazine
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Graceful degradation is a design approach that ensures the basics of a website will still function even if specific individual parts of it stop working. The approach removes single points of failur...
The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design — Smashing Magazine
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In my [last piece](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/psychology-trust-ai-guide-measuring-designing-user-confidence/), we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, ...
Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners — Smashing Magazine
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Earlier this month, we wrapped up our [SmashingConfs 2024](https://smashingconf.com/conferences), and one subject that kept coming up over and over again — among attendees, between speakers, and ev...
Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops — Smashing Magazine
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For a multistep form, planning involves structuring questions logically across steps, grouping similar questions, and minimizing the number of steps and the amount of required information for each ...
Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience — Smashing Magazine
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About 15 years ago, I was working at a company where we built apps for travel agents, airport workers, and airline companies. We also built our own in-house framework for UI components and single-p...
Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore — Smashing Magazine
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As the year is coming to a close, many of us feel rushed, meeting deadlines, finishing off projects, or preparing for the upcoming holiday season. So how about some beautiful, wintery desktop wallp...
Dreaming Of Miracles (December 2024 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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As the year winds down, many of us are busy wrapping up projects, meeting deadlines, or getting ready for the holiday season. Why not take a moment amid the end-of-year hustle to set the mood for D...
A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically aroun...
The Hype Around Signals — Smashing Magazine
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The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has become ingrained in internet browsing since personal computers gained momentum in the consumer electroni...
The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA — Smashing Magazine
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This article is a sponsored by [Maturing Design Systems](undefined)
Design systems have become an integral part of our everyday work, so much that the successful growth and maturation of a design ...
Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt) — Smashing Magazine
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No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frus...
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
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On Thursday, October 10, 2024, I gave my first talk at an international event, the [WordPress Accessibility Day (WPAD) 2024](https://2024.wpaccessibility.day/). Just a few months before, I was a ne...
Why You Should Speak At Events As An Early-Career Professional — Smashing Magazine
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Picture this: you join a new project, dive into the codebase, and within the first few hours, you discover something frustratingly familiar. Scattered throughout the stylesheets, you find multiple ...
Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects — Smashing Magazine
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As I sit down to write this article, I can’t help but marvel at the incredible changes sweeping through our industry. For the first time in my career, I feel like we’re no longer limited by our tec...
AI’s Transformative Impact On Web Design: Supercharging Productivity Across The Industry — Smashing Magazine
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This article is a sponsored by [Cloudways](https://www.cloudways.com/en/)
If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-...
From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation — Smashing Magazine
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When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in ...
CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers — Smashing Magazine
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This article is a sponsored by [Penpot](https://penpot.app/?utm%5Fsource=Article&utm%5Fmedium=SmashingMag&utm%5Fid=Penpot2.0)
Penpot is a free, open-source design tool that allows true collaborati...
Open-Source Meets Design Tooling With Penpot — Smashing Magazine
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I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it.
It ...
Older Tech In The Browser Stack — Smashing Magazine
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Earlier this month, we wrapped up our [SmashingConfs 2024](https://smashingconf.com/conferences), and one subject that kept coming up over and over again — among attendees, between speakers, and ev...
Bundle Up And Save On Smashing Books And Workshops — Smashing Magazine
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This article is a sponsored by [DebugBear](https://www.debugbear.com/?utm%5Fcampaign=sm-10)
[There’s no single way to measure website performance.](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/running...
Effectively Monitoring Web Performance — Smashing Magazine
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Good technical illustrations and data visualisations allow users and clients to, in a manner of speaking, take time out, ponder and look at the information in a really accessible and engaging way. ...
Alternatives To Typical Technical Illustrations And Data Visualisations — Smashing Magazine
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I explained recently how I use <symbol>, <use>, and CSS Media Queries to develop what I call [adaptive SVGs](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/smashing-animations-part-5-building-adaptive-sv...
Magnificent SVGs With And CSS Custom Properties — Smashing Magazine
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For years, “UX strategy” felt like a confusing, ambiguous, and overloaded term to me. To me, it was some sort of a roadmap or a “grand vision”, with a few business decisions attached to it. And loo...
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A Practical Guide To UX Strategy — Smashing Magazine
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