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Color plays a pivotal role in crafting compelling user experiences and successful digital products. It’s far more than just aesthetics; color strategically guides users, establishes brand identity,...
The Psychology Of Color In UX Design And Digital Products — Smashing Magazine
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Design career origin stories often sound clean and linear: a degree in Fine Arts, a lucky internship, or a first job that launches a linear, upward path. But what about those whose paths were _not_...
From Line To Layout: How Past Experiences Shape Your Design Career — Smashing Magazine
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AI is almost everywhere — it writes text, makes music, generates code, draws pictures, runs research, chats with you — and apparently even [understands people better than they understand themselves...
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases — Smashing Magazine
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It’s a common misconception that internationalization (i18n) is simply about translating text. While crucial, translation is merely one facet. One of the complexities lies in adapting information f...
The Power Of The Intl API: A Definitive Guide To Browser-Native Internationalization — Smashing Magazine
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A design system is more than just a set of colors and buttons. It’s a shared language that helps designers and developers build good products together. At its core, a design system includes [tokens...
Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine
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When talking about job interviews for a UX position, we often discuss how to leave an incredible impression and how to negotiate the right salary. But it’s only one part of the story. The other par...
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UX Job Interview Helpers — Smashing Magazine
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Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for new and unique designs on a regular basis, we started our [monthly wallpapers series](https:...
Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
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Ever sat in a meeting where everyone jumped straight to solutions? “We need a new app!” “Let’s redesign the homepage!” “AI will fix everything!” This solution-first thinking is endemic in digital d...
The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution — Smashing Magazine
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It’s common to see [Web Components](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web%5Fcomponents) directly [compared to framework components](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/web-compo...
Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM — Smashing Magazine
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Many products — digital and physical — are focused on “average” users — a statistical representation of the user base, which often overlooks or dismisses anything that deviates from that average, o...
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Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People — Smashing Magazine
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JavaScript event listeners are very important, as they exist in almost every web application that requires interactivity. As common as they are, it is also essential for them to be managed properly...
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters — Smashing Magazine
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A few years ago, I was in a design review at a fintech company, polishing the expense management flows. It was a routine session where we reviewed the logic behind content and design decisions.
Wh...
Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX — Smashing Magazine
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Flip phones aren’t dead. On the contrary, [200+ million non-smartphones](https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-each-year/sources-and-media-contacts) are sold annually. That’s rou...
Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones — Smashing Magazine
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So you need to design a new AI feature for your product. How would you start? How do you design flows and interactions? And how do you ensure that that new feature doesn’t get abandoned by users af...
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Design Patterns For AI Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
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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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This article is a sponsored by [Droip](https://droip.com/)
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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This article is a sponsored by [Lyssna](https://www.lyssna.com/)
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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