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• November 18, 2025 Smashing Newsletter: Issue #534 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 182,705 subscribers on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
• Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones (Smashingmagazine)
  Learn why flip phones still matter in 2025, and how you can build and launch web apps for these tiny devices.
• The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable (Smashingmagazine)
  In a rush to embrace AI, the industry is redefining what it means to be a UX designer, blurring the line between design and engineering.
• A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces (Smashingmagazine)
  Every high-resolution hero image, autoplay video, and complex JavaScript animation carries a cost.
• Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs (Smashingmagazine)
  While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deseria…
• Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion (Smashingmagazine)
  Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps…
• The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical o…
• Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content (Smashingmagazine)
  Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be acco…
• A Practical Guide To Design Principles (Smashingmagazine)
  Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly…
• July 7, 2026 Smashing Newsletter: Issue #566 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 175,671 subscribers on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
• Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools (Smashingmagazine)
  Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to…
• When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread (Smashingmagazine)
  The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks.
• September 8, 2026 Smashing Newsletter: Issue #575 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 174,670 subscribers on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
• How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems (Smashingmagazine)
  Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.
• Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2) (Smashingmagazine)
  Why traditional loading patterns like spinners fail in agentic AI experiences, and how interface patterns that reveal the system’s process,…
• Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era (Smashingmagazine)
  Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI?
• Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  Some forms stay UI, while others quietly become rule engines. Here’s why these two different approaches exist and how to choose between the…
• The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition) (Smashingmagazine)
  Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers?
• The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins (Smashingmagazine)
  Success in modern UX isn’t about having the most content. It’s about having the most findable content.
• Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With contrast-color() (Smashingmagazine)
  Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and…
• The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong (Smashingmagazine)
  AI tools are eliminating the need to “bug” colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that bu…
• From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction (Smashingmagazine)
  The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand cont…
• Four Levels Of Customer Understanding (Smashingmagazine)
  What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to l…
• Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design (Smashingmagazine)
  Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt esse…
• Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent.
• Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With sibling-index() And sibling-count() (Smashingmagazine)
  Meet `sibling-index()` and `sibling-count()`. Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without `:nth-child()` rules or JS workarounds.
• The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI (Smashingmagazine)
  As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide.
• With The Popover API (Smashingmagazine)
  What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library?
• New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling (Smashingmagazine)
  New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.
• The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity (Smashingmagazine)
  We have officially moved past the era of humanoid robots as mere public relations stunts. As they become increasingly lifelike, society may…
• Beyond border-radius: What The CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI (Smashingmagazine)
  For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just…
• The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition) (Smashingmagazine)
  With the new month just around the corner, could there be a better occasion to freshen up your desktop?
• How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript (Smashingmagazine)
  The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies an…
• June 23, 2026 Smashing Newsletter: Issue #564 (Smashingmagazine)
  This newsletter issue was sent out to 175,607 subscribers on Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
• Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree (Smashingmagazine)
  How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation.
• Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI (Smashingmagazine)
  Every extra second of friction has a measurable business cost. Carrie Webster shares ten data-backed UX facts that link user experience dir…
• Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later (Smashingmagazine)
  Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low reten…
• A Practical Guide To Naming Things (Smashingmagazine)
  A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures.
• Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API (Smashingmagazine)
  The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal.
• No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life (Smashingmagazine)
  Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features.
• Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks (Smashingmagazine)
  What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology.
• Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface (Smashingmagazine)
  We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained…
• Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature (Smashingmagazine)
  Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable.
• Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas (Smashingmagazine)
  We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first free…
• Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions (Smashingmagazine)
  Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design.
• Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie (Smashingmagazine)
  When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction.
• The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface (Smashingmagazine)
  TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent.
• Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1) (Smashingmagazine)
  Designing for agentic AI requires attention to both the system’s behavior and the transparency of its actions.
• Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing — Smashing Magazine (Smashingmagazine)
  Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current.
• Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow (Smashingmagazine)
  Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing ho…