Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱 — Smashing Magazine
Meet our brand new conference for designers and UI engineers who love the web. That’s SmashingConf Amsterdam, taking place in the legendary Pathé Tuschinski, on
A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
Every high-resolution hero image, autoplay video, and complex JavaScript animation carries a cost. Sustainable UX challenges the era of “unlimited pixels” and reframes performance as
The UX And Psychology Of Streaks — Smashing Magazine
What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo breaks down
An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps — Smashing Magazine
Designing for mental health means designing for vulnerability. Empathy-Centred UX becomes not a “nice to have” but a fundamental design requirement. Here’s a practical framework
Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability — Smashing Magazine
Autonomy is an output of a technical system. Trustworthiness is an output of a design process. Here are concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational
An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions — Smashing Magazine
Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new @scope rule finally
How To Choose The Right One — Smashing Magazine
Combobox vs. Multi-Select vs. Listbox vs. Dual Listbox? How they are different, what purpose they serve, and how to choose the right one. Brought to
Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make the most of the shortest month of the year with a new collection of desktop wallpapers that are sure to bring a smile
Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer — Smashing Magazine
AI coding tools like agents can be valuable allies in everyday development work. They help handle time-consuming grunt work, guide you through large legacy codebases,
Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts — Smashing Magazine
In CSS, we can create “stacking contexts” where elements are visually placed one on top of the next in a three-dimensional sense that creates the
