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Read on UX Collective →In-System DesignA practical guide for designers: why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.In-System Design: a three-part series.Part 1: Building an…
Read on UX Collective →Truly useful domestic technology fades into the background. Too many smart home screens demand centre stage.The Apple HomeView, image credit: Apple.Apple’s latest foray into the home automation…
Read on UX Collective →Definitions of fields related to user experience, including UX design, UI design, visual design, interaction design, service design, UX research, and DesignOps
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI saves UX practitioners time on nearly every task, yet most feel lukewarm about it: mandates, unreliable output, and inflated expectations eat the gains.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions. Plus, why the caret is the safest icon choice. You’ll…
Read on Smashing Magazine →Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how the new CSS…
Read on Smashing Magazine →Data from AI-generated respondents pointed to the same conclusion as a survey of 604 humans but contained far fewer distinct answers.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to UX maps.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →What can digital transformation teach us about AI adoption? Paul Boag revisits his book Digital Adaptation to show how lessons from the past can help organizations navigate the challenges of AI today.
Read on Smashing Magazine →A useful AI assistant needs relevant personal context, the capability to use it, and an experience that helps users understand its limits.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →WGSL fragment_depth extension, texture compression unaligned, srgb-linear and display-p3-linear color spaces, snorm10-10-10-2 vertex format, and more.
Read on Chrome Developers →A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more [useful guides](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/guides/) and [online…
Read on Smashing Magazine →JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
Read on Chrome Developers →Updates to the Email Verification origin trial, including Android support, third-party origin trials, optional kid handling, and Sec-Fetch-Dest header changes.
Read on Chrome Developers →Empathy maps help UX teams visualize user attitudes and behaviors, building a shared understanding of end users while highlighting gaps in existing user data.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI makes building nearly free, so users grow agentic systems piecemeal into fragile messes they no longer understand.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to brighten your screens, and maybe spark some…
Read on Smashing Magazine →Chrome 156 is now in Beta. Check out the release notes.
Read on Chrome Developers →Chrome 150 and 155 introduce essential ergonomic updates, renaming, and API refinements to the HTML-in-Canvas experimental API.
Read on Chrome Developers →Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about how artificial intelligence works, and how users think about it.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →How people react to being told that AI helped create a piece of content varies with audience, context, the nature and degree of AI use.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Chrome 152 introduces connection allowlists, a new security mechanism that lets you create a strict network sandbox for your documents and workers.
Read on Chrome Developers →Responsively-sized iframes, CSS scroll-marker-group modes, and CSS text-decoration-inset.
Read on Chrome Developers →DevTools MCP server updates, Ad script tracking in the Ads section in Application, and Full soft navigation support in Performance.
Read on Chrome Developers →Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about recommendations for designing AI products and features.
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
Read on Nielsen Norman Group →Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how…
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