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✨ Talking points. Smart questions. A compelling story. This guide helps you prepare for your UX job interview. And remember: no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/ux-j...

💥 Event listeners power interactivity in JavaScript — but if not removed properly, they can cause memory leaks. And what if you need to pass parameters? Amejimaobari Ollornwi shares which JS features make it all possible and safe: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/hand...

🤖 Designing a new AI feature? Where do you even begin? From first steps to design flows and interactions, here’s a simple, systematic approach to building AI experiences that stick: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/desi...

🧙‍♂️ The Wizard of Oz method is a proven UX research tool that simulates real interactions to reveal authentic user behavior. Explores its fundamentals, advanced techniques, and key considerations — including its relevance in the emerging field of agentic AI: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/unma...

⏱️ As always in design, timing matters — and so do timely notifications. Let’s explore how we can improve the notifications UX: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/desi...

🧩 Traditional page builders have shaped how we build WordPress sites for years. Meet Droip — a modern, no-code visual builder offering cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/mode...

✨ Bridging the gap between user research insights and actual organizational action — with a clear roadmap for impact: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/turn...

Meet our newest book, “Accessible UX Research” — now available for pre-order. Michele A. Williams takes us for a deep dive into the real world of UX research, with a roadmap for including users with different abilities and needs.

↬ Get your copy: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine Meet “Accessible UX Research,” our upcoming book to make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...

I'll buy an eBook copy of Accessible UX Research for the first five folks who are interested! I'll need an email address to send a copy to when it's published (currently in pre-order).

If you're into user research and disability, this book is for you. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine Meet “Accessible UX Research,” our upcoming book to make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...

I got the chance to read this book about accessible UX research by Dr. Michele A. Williams a couple of weeks ago and I loved it! Go and grab a copy!

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

✨ Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone? Let’s find out: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/desi...

🧩 So, you want to set up a new design system for your product. How do you get it up and running from scratch? These handy PDF worksheets and tools will help you get the design system effort up and running — and adopted: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/desi...

Remember that last team brainstorming session full of “brilliant” ideas? How many of them stuck? Did leadership act on any? Eric Olive challenges the value of traditional brainstorming and explores more effective ways to spark creativity and improve UX: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/fewe...

🧩 Wonderful news from @penpot.app! The team continues its mission to build a free design tool with powerful features and seamless code integration. Their latest release introduces support for native design tokens. Let’s take a closer look: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/inte...

↬ Introducing Anima Playground, a tool that transforms your Figma designs into fully functional web apps automatically: smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/anim...

(This article is kindly supported by @Anima App 💖)

Poor internet connectivity doesn’t have to mean poor UX. With PWA technologies like IndexedDB, service workers, and the Background Sync API, you can build an offline-friendly image upload system that queues uploads and retries them automatically. Here’s how: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/buil...

Fostering An Accessibility Culture — Smashing Magazine While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.

If you open @smashingmagazine.com, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁

Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️

What you think?! #accessibility

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...

Understanding Subresource Integrity — Smashing Magazine Exploiting a security flaw is often about getting multiple small pieces to line up. Every bit of JavaScript you add to a site is a potential way in for a hacker. This is doubly true if that JavaScript...

Found a good article on @smashingmagazine.com about SRI. And learned how it works along the way.

www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/04/unde...

A photo from "Success at Scale" book by Smashing Magazine.

It’s such a great feeling to see your article featured in print, in a @smashingmagazine.com book curated by Addy Osmani 🙏

How To Build A Business Case To Promote Accessibility In Your B2B Products — Smashing Magazine When passion for accessibility meets business indifference, what bridges the gap? Gloria Diaz Alonso shares how she turned frustration into strategy — by learning to speak the language of business.

When passion for accessibility meets business indifference, what bridges the gap? Gloria Diaz Alonso shares how she turned frustration into strategy — by learning to speak the language of business. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/how-...

Content management is evolving. The traditional monolithic CMS approach is giving way to headless architectures, where content management and presentation are decoupled.

↬ Building a Drupal > Storyblok migration tool:
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/buil...

(Article supported by @storyblok.com 💖)

Smashing Meets - YouTube Smashing Meets are online community events run by Smashing Magazine, with usually a few talks and interactive sessions around a topic in web, from web design...

So @smashingmagazine.com ran a brilliant (as always!) free event on the topic of CSS a few days ago and the recordings are live on YouTube now. I absolutely recommend all 3 talks. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How To Argue Against AI-First Research — Smashing Magazine Companies have been turning their attention to “synthetic,” AI-driven user testing. However, as convenient as it might seem, it’s dangerous, expensive, and usually diminishes user value. Let’s take a ...

🤖 Companies have been shifting focus to “synthetic,” AI-driven user testing. However, as convenient as it might seem, it’s dangerous, expensive, and usually diminishes user value. Let’s examine why exactly it is problematic and how we can argue against it: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

✨ You probably already know that you can use developer tools in your browser to make on-the-spot changes to a webpage — simply click the node in the Inspector and make your edits. But have you tried document.designMode?

↬ Victor Ayomipo shares the details: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/prev...

🎯 What makes WordPress websites such a prime target for hackers? Anders Johansson delves into how WordPress SQL injection attacks work and shares strategies for removing and preventing them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Newly introduced by Google, LCP subparts help you pinpoint where page load delays come from. Matt Zeunert unpacks what LCP subparts are, what they mean for your website speed, and how you can measure them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/03/how-...

🔍 Effective data storytelling isn’t a black box. By integrating UX research and psychology, you can craft more persuasive narratives. Victor Yocco & Angelica Lo Duca share a five-step framework to create data stories that resonate cognitively and emotionally: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/huma...

🕵️‍♂️ The OWASP vulnerabilities list is the perfect starting point for web developers looking to strengthen their security expertise.

Let’s unravel with @ericburel.tech how these vulnerabilities materialize in full-stack web applications and how to prevent them: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/how-...

Optimizing web performance means looking beyond surface-level metrics. In this article, you’ll learn more about what TTFB is, why reducing server response time alone isn’t enough for optimization, and more: smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/time...

(Article is kindly sponsored by @debugbear.com 💖)

Integrations: From Simple Data Transfer To Modern Composable Architectures — Smashing Magazine In today’s web development landscape, the concept of a monolithic application has become increasingly rare. Modern applications are composed of multiple specialized services, each of which handles spe...

🧩 Monolithic apps are rare in modern web development. Today’s apps use specialized services, each handling specific aspects of functionality — a shift shaped by decades of evolving data transfer.

Explore this journey and its impact on modern architectures: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/02/inte...