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• Core Points: Sustainable UX reframes performance as responsibility, reducing footprint through thoughtful design rather than adding pixels, aut…
Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book by Michele Williams
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• Core Points: Smashing Magazine’s new book, Accessible UX Research by Michele Williams, ships worldwide, guiding inclusive UX research and integ…
Getting Started With The Popover API
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• Core Points: The Popover API elevates tooltips from ad-hoc scripts to browser-native components, handling opening/closing, keyboard interaction…
Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
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• Core Points: A new SmashingConf for designers and UI engineers focusing on the web, scheduled for April 13–16, 2026 at Pathé Tuschinski in Amst…
Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
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• Core Points: Streaks leverage human psychology (reward schedules, commitment, social cues) to boost engagement; effective design balances motiv…
Fresh Energy in March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
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• Core Points: Community-designed desktop wallpapers to inspire spring and boost creativity; curated as a fresh March collection.
• Main Content:…
Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework for Mental Health Apps
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• Core Points: Designing mental health tools requires vulnerability-aware, empathy-centered UX; trust is foundational, not optional.
• Main Con…
CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
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• Core Points: The CSS landscape is shifting from rigid naming conventions toward scalable, scoped styling enabled by the proposed @scope rule, a…
Designing for Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns for Control, Consent, and Accountability
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• Core Points: Autonomy emerges from technical design; trustworthiness emerges from a deliberate design process with clear controls, consent, and…
Choosing Between Combobox, Multiselect, Listbox, and Dual Listbox: A Practical Guide for UI Selec…
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• Core Points: Understand the strengths and trade-offs of combobox, multiselect, listbox, and dual listbox to match user goals and context.
• Mai…