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  1. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People

    Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in...

  2. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas

    Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.

  3. How To Measure The Impact Of Features

    Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the...

  4. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG

    In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows his techniques for creating [Toon Text...

  5. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download

    We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which means soon the...

  6. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025

    CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. Here is an...

  7. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

    Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.

  8. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners

    Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers...

  9. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

    CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own...

  10. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

    With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our...

  11. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA

    CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks”...

  12. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)

    We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice...