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• Free Open-Source Icons (Smashingmagazine)
  We’ve collected some wonderful, free icons and goodies that we’ve discovered lately and that are bound to give your design the finishing to…
• Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently (Smashingmagazine)
  Constructing an equivalent experience may mean changing the way you think about development and design, and potentially reevaluating your e…
• Accessibility In Chrome DevTools (Smashingmagazine)
  For many websites, things like performance and accessibility are an afterthought. But as web developers, it’s best to strive to create the…
• Is Your Website Stressing Out Visitors? (Smashingmagazine)
  Stress isn’t just something that makes people feel uncomfortable. It stimulates the urge to “fight” or “flight”.
• Which Video Conferencing Tools Are Most Accessible? (Smashingmagazine)
  With the right apps, working from home is a blessing for those with a disability. Working from home allows you to attend to your medical ne…
• Modern CSS Techniques To Improve Legibility — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  Which aspects should we take into consideration when designing and developing for reading?
• How To Feel More Energized Even When You’re Stuck At A Desk All Day (Smashingmagazine)
  A desk is an essential piece of equipment for a web designer. Without it, you’d end up working from wobbly tables at cafes or staring down…
• Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With Tauri And Vue.js (Smashingmagazine)
  Tauri is a toolchain for creating small, fast, and secure desktop apps from your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Removing Panic From E-Commerce Shipping And Inventory Alerts (Smashingmagazine)
  There was a time when marketers used things like urgency, scarcity and FOMO to drive online shoppers to a sale.
• It’s Good To Talk: Thoughts And Feelings On Creative Wellness (Smashingmagazine)
  With so much pressure to be our best selves and use every waking moment to develop skills, it’s easy to lose track of our own wellbeing.
• How Web Designers Can Help Restaurants Move Into Digital Experiences (Smashingmagazine)
  We’re at a point now where restaurants can no longer be reluctant or stingy about improving their digital presence.
• The Renaissance Of No-Code For Web Designers (Smashingmagazine)
  Just like during the Renaissance, we’re living in times of incredible cultural and artistic innovation.
• Crowdfunding Web Platform Features With Open Prioritization (Smashingmagazine)
  She encourage developers to use, talk about, and raise implementation bugs with browsers to try to get features implemented, however, what…
• Inspired Design Decisions With Emmett McBain: Art Direction As Social Equity (Smashingmagazine)
  Emmett McBain was a Black American graphic designer whose work had a remarkable impact on the representation of Black Americans in advertis…
• Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design (Smashingmagazine)
  After 12 inspiring articles, Andy Clarke draws his Inspired Design Decisions series to a close by explaining how studying the work of Bradb…
• How To Configure Application Color Schemes With CSS Custom Properties (Smashingmagazine)
  Splitting colors into three levels (palette, functional, and component) can help you be more adaptive to changes and new requirements while…
• How To Test A Design Concept For Effectiveness (Smashingmagazine)
  Getting a client or stakeholder to approve a design concept can be challenging. However, testing can make it easier, as well as ensuring yo…
• Can You Design A Website For The Five Senses? (Smashingmagazine)
  Imagine if your website could evoke this kind of response. Visitors who respond to the sensory stimulation would instantly be in a more pos…
• Better Error Handling In NodeJS With Error Classes (Smashingmagazine)
  You can get by in NodeJS without properly handling errors but due to the asynchronous nature of NodeJS, improper handling or errors can cau…
• Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter (Smashingmagazine)
  Today, Carmine Zaccagnino is going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them.
• How To Create Better Angular Templates With Pug (Smashingmagazine)
  Pug is a template engine that allows you to write cleaner templates with less repetition. In Angular, you can use Pug to write component te…
• 4 Lessons Web App Designers Can Learn From Google (Smashingmagazine)
  The first place Suzanne Scacca goes to whenever she’s curious about what more could be done to improve our users experiences is the Google…
• What Vitruvius Can Teach Us About Web Design (Smashingmagazine)
  The ancients can teach us a thing or two about design — even web design. The Roman architect Vitruvius had buildings in mind when laying ou…
• An Introduction To Stimulus.js (Smashingmagazine)
  It allowed him to build applications in a way that feels reusable and approachable. While he doesn’t think Stimulus will take over the web…
• Is Redesigning Your Mobile App A Bad Idea? (Smashingmagazine)
  The Scrabble GO, Instacart and YouTube mobile apps have recently undergone disruptive redesigns.
• Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Factories, Fixtures And Serializers (Part 2) (Smashingmagazine)
  Factories are a faster way to create new database records., A fixture is a state of a set or collection of objects that serve as a baseline…
• Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) (Smashingmagazine)
  Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens…
• Mirage JS Deep Dive: Understanding Timing, Response And Passthrough (Part 3) (Smashingmagazine)
  So far, we have seen how we can create records with Mirage, intercept API requests via route handlers and, last but not least, how the shap…
• 12 Ways To Improve User Interview Questions — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  Right questions don’t simply roll off the tongue, but it’s a handy skill everyone can train.
• How To Run The Right Kind Of Research Study With The Double-Diamond Model — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  User research helps companies make higher quality software faster and more cost-effectively.
• CSS News July 2020 (Smashingmagazine)
  If you are the sort of person who doesn’t like reading about things if you can’t use them now, then this article probably isn’t for you — w…
• Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS (Smashingmagazine)
  The most efficient way to build accessible websites and apps is to “shift left” by incorporating accessibility testing into the earliest st…
• Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form (Smashingmagazine)
  In the tenth issue of Inspired Design Decisions, Andy Clarke will explain how Giovanni Pintori — the Italian graphic designer best known fo…
• Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference? (Smashingmagazine)
  Some critics question the agnostic nature of Web Components, with some even arguing that they are not real components.
• Smashing Newsletter: Issue #499 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 191,839 subscribers on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
• How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work (Smashingmagazine)
  UX initiatives are often seen as a disruption rather than a means to solving existing problems in an organization.
• Blossoms, Flowers, And The Magic Of Spring (April 2025 Wallpapers Edition) (Smashingmagazine)
  The beginning of the new month is the perfect opportunity to give your desktop a makeover.
• The Case For Minimal WordPress Setups: A Contrarian View On Theme Frameworks — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  Modern frameworks are supposed to help speed up development while providing modern tools and a developer-friendly workflow.
• Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction? (Smashingmagazine)
  Eduard Kuric discusses the significance and role of context in the creation of relevant follow-up questions for unmoderated usability testi…
• How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks (Smashingmagazine)
  Anders Johansson explores why they are frequent hacker targets and shares how WordPress SQL injection attacks work and how to remove and pr…
• How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis (Smashingmagazine)
  Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Now, in the Chrome UX Report, this data provides real visitor insights to speed up you…
• The Human Element: Using Research And Psychology To Elevate Data Storytelling (Smashingmagazine)
  Effective data storytelling isn’t a black box. By integrating UX research & psychology, you can craft more impactful and persuasive narrati…
• Building A Drupal To Storyblok Migration Tool: An Engineering Perspective (Smashingmagazine)
  7 min readCMS, Tools, Workflow, Headless Share on Twitter, Linked In About The Author Edoardo is a Dev Rel Engineer at Storyblok, combining…
• How To Measure The Impact Of Features (Smashingmagazine)
  Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features.
• Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners (Smashingmagazine)
  Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI prod…
• What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design (Smashingmagazine)
  Road-tripping along the line between engineering and spirituality, Robert M. Pirsig’s musings on the arts, sciences, and Quality ring as tr…
• Design Patterns For AI Interfaces (Smashingmagazine)
  Here’s a simple, practical overview with useful design patterns for better AI experiences.
• Gild Just One Lily (Smashingmagazine)
  In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communi…
• The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA (Smashingmagazine)
  CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too.
• May 20, 2025 Smashing Newsletter: Issue #508 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 190,202 subscribers on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.