How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss. More…
How To Measure The Impact Of Features
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance…
Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shows his techniques for creating Toon…
Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now…
50+ Free Christmas Templates & Resources for Designers
With Christmas quickly approaching, many designers are likely gearing up to craft personalized Christmas cards, invitations,…
Do Built-From-Scratch WordPress Themes Still Make Sense?
WordPress boasts an unrivaled flexibility. There’s an opportunity to customize every component of your website. That…
30+ Best Free Heavy & Ultra-Bold Fonts for Creatives
Heavy fonts are essential typefaces for any designer wanting to make an immediate impact. Characterized by…
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…
How Should Web Designers Deal With Service Outages?
The web may be an omnipresent part of our lives. However, it’s also more fragile than…
10+ Best News & Broadcast Packages for After Effects in 2025
Broadcast packages are flexible and powerful templates for video creators. With them, you’ll find intros, titles,…
Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of an additional 18 fully managed open weight models in…
Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads
Today, we’re announcing the availability of new memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz…
