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Accessibility works best when it blends into everyday design workflows. The goal isn’t a big transformation, but simple work processes…

How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption…

Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu…

Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion…

The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in Date API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new…

Some forms stay UI, while others quietly become rule engines. Here’s why these two different approaches exist and how to…

UX design is entering a new phase, with designers shifting from makers of outputs to directors of intent. AI can…

Our newest Smashing Book, “Accessible UX Research” by Michele Williams, is finally shipping worldwide — and we couldn’t be happier!…

What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The…

Meet our brand new conference for designers and UI engineers who love the web. That’s SmashingConf Amsterdam, taking place in…