UI / UX

How To Measure The Impact Of Features — Smashing Magazine

Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use...

Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis

AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design — it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.The industry told designers...

[Podcast] How Koto Rebranded Amazon

How do you reimagine one of the world’s most powerful brands? Over 18 months, across 15 global markets, and with 50+ sub-brands, Koto partnered with...

Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG — Smashing Magazine

In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shows his techniques for creating Toon Text titles using modern CSS and SVG.After finishing...

Lower the surprise: Applying The free energy principle to UX

Our brain is a prediction machine that can’t be stopped. No matter how hard we try, it will still build expectations.If you’re reading this,...

50+ Christmas Gift Ideas 🎁 for Graphic Designers & Creatives

I thought I would put my Santa hat on and play a little Secret Santa to help you pick the best gifts for the...

Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download — Smashing Magazine

We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which...

Are you designing for the user’s values — or your own?

Are you designing for the user’s values — or your own?The future of design will be the negotiation between multiple moral worlds.Across a group of users, the patterns...

101+ Unique Gift Ideas 🎁 for Graphic Designers (Nov 2025)

Do you know a graphic designer, artist or illustrator? Yes? Ok, how hard is it buying gifts for these creative folk? I know, right? I...

How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy — Smashing Magazine

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

The stories that keep us obedient

James Baldwin on protection, avoidance, and the limits we inherit.What Baldwin sawWhat Baldwin carried out of that childhood was clarity about how authority behaves when it...

39+ Best Christmas Fonts for Festive Holiday Creations (Free & Premium) 🎄

The festive Christmas season is approaching so we wanted to take this time to round up the best Christmas fonts for your branding, packaging...

Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore — Smashing Magazine

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...

Design critiques, mandated screen addiction, locksmith stickers, accessibility lessons

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“A critique is not a governance mechanism, nor is it a group brainstorming session. It’s a necessary collision. It’s...

[Podcast] Make Your Brand Famous with Dan Cushing and Diego Borgo

Branding in emerging tech moves fast, breaks things and drags a lot of buzzwords along for the ride. But fame still matters. Trust still...

The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA — Smashing Magazine

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...

Florence Nightingale on vanity metrics

The least useful numbers we take the most seriouslyThe work most people avoidWith every failing system, the explanation stops making sense. There’s a gap between...