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...

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...

Designing For Stress And Emergency

Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the cod...

Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects

Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frust...

JavaScript SpeechSynthesis API

As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility...

Creating communal computers

Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together aroun...

From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation

Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work.

Fix “This video format is not supported” on YouTube TV

Setting up a new computer is bliss — no old, unused apps and the machine performs much better than the previous. Unfortunately, you may encounter new...

Retreat to attack

Do you like director's commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week's News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, M...

CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers

Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own p...

Older Tech In The Browser Stack

There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new...

Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But ev...

Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `<use>` And CSS Custom Properties

SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke e...

Six Key Components of UX Strategy

Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achi...

[Paper Analysis] The Free Transformer (and some Variational Autoencoder stuff)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17558 Abstract: We propose an extension of the decoder Transformer that conditions its generative process on random latent...

Code like a surgeon

The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advoc...

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads...

React Foundation: Solving Reacts Existential Problems

React's new Foundation is how we solve the existential issues that React has had since its beginnings. Foundation blog entry: https://react.dev/blog/2...

I Used to Hate Typescript

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Ken...