UI / UX

PlayStation Store’s top downloads of 2025 – PlayStation.Blog

Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports,...

Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine

Whether 2026 has already begun as you’re reading this or you’re still waiting for the big countdown to start, how about some new wallpapers...

Truth and certainty

Kierkegaard on how fa*th becomes a bad word.Designed certaintyFor Kierkegaard, Christianity wasn’t a choice so much as the background noise of Copenhagen. In the early...

[Podcast] Best of 2025 (Season 6) with Jacob Cass & Matt Davies

We’re closing out 2025 with a highlight reel from Season 6 of JUST Branding. This year we sat down with some serious heavy hitters, including...

How To Design For (And With) Deaf People — Smashing Magazine

Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More design patterns in Smart Interface Design Patterns, a...

Velocity over speed: why the AI race has already failed

OpinionWe are confusing motion with progress. In physics, this mistake has a name: speed without direction. In civilisation, it has a cost.Here’s a truth from...

Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas — Smashing Magazine

Turn scattered user research into AI-powered personas that give anyone consolidated multi-perspective feedback from a single question.In my previous article, I explored how AI...

Design leaders need to jam with their teams

How business management killed craft apprenticeshipVictor Wooten is my all-time favorite bassist. But, it’s not only because of his amazing playing skills. It’s also...

[Podcast] From Kickstarter to Cult Brand with Brandon Kim of Brevitē

From Kickstarter to cult brand, Brevitē is a case study in how a challenger wins without a war chest. In this episode of JUST Branding,...

How To Measure The Impact Of Features — Smashing Magazine

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

Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis

AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design — it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.The industry told designers...

Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG — Smashing Magazine

In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shows his techniques for creating Toon Text titles using modern CSS and SVG.After finishing...

Perplexity and NotebookLM don’t use better AI—they use better intelligence flow architecture

What product designers can learn from how they design intelligence flows.Everyone thinks Perplexity and NotebookLM succeed because they use “better AI.”They don’t. They use the...

50+ Christmas Gift Ideas 🎁 for Graphic Designers & Creatives

I thought I would put my Santa hat on and play a little Secret Santa to help you pick the best gifts for the...

Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download — Smashing Magazine

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...

Addressing the design-engineering gap with AI coding tools

How shadow repos and data layer helped me move from design handoffs to working prototypes that ship in hoursOver the past few months, I have...

101+ Unique Gift Ideas 🎁 for Graphic Designers (Nov 2025)

Do you know a graphic designer, artist or illustrator? Yes? Ok, how hard is it buying gifts for these creative folk? I know, right? I...