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3/25/2025
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#500: Useful Guides For Designers and PMs
With useful practical guides on UX research, design systems, storytelling, content design, product management and sustainability. Issue #500 • Mar 25, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter
3/18/2025
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#499: Charts and Data Visualization
Charts vocabulary, Figma kits, accessible data visualization, chart design mistakes. Issue #499 • Mar 18, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Guten Tag Smashing Friends, When we think about
3/11/2025
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#498: Usability & UX
New books for UX designers, practical guides and how to deal with placeholders and text labels. Issue #498 • Mar 11, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Aluu Smashing Friends, We've just
3/4/2025
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#497: Color Palettes and Generators
How to fix a broken color palette, accessible color combinations, color names and palette generators. Issue #497 • Feb 28, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Pryvit! Smashing Friends, How
2/27/2025
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#495: Accessibility and Inclusive UX
Accessible fonts, inclusive design patterns, accessibility annotations and how to design for people with ADHD. Issue #495 • Feb 18, 2025 • View in the browser 💨 Smashing Newsletter Bok Smashing Friends
2/27/2025
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#496: Psychology and UX
Laws of UX, cognitive bias cheatsheet, deceptive patterns and behavioral science Miro board. Issue #496 • Feb 25, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Namaste Smashing Friends, Matching users
2/14/2025
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#494: UX and Product Design
Redesigning complex navigation, product design process, UX in legacy systems, UX workshops with users. Issue #494 • Feb 11, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Halò Smashing Friends, How do
1/14/2025
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#490: Interface Design
How to design better interfaces, how to choose icons, optical effects, iconography, Gestalt principles and icon design. Issue #490 • Jan 14, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Buona
1/7/2025
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#489: Web Performance
Instant navigation, Web Almanac 2024, INP debugging, font-face fallbacks and compression dictionaries. Issue #489 • Jan 7, 2025 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hello Smashing Friends, Web
12/24/2024
13 : 14
#488: Fun And Useful Gems
Radio garden, Zoom backgrounds, visual history of the alphabet and fun interactive experiences. Issue #488 • Dec 24, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hello Smashing Friends, As we are
12/19/2024
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#487: Useful Templates And Canvases For Designers
With new ways of working, facilitation techniques, guides to design interviews, culture design and user task canvas templates. Issue #487 • Dec 17, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter
12/10/2024
11 : 24
#486: Advanced Design Systems
Complex design systems, Figma organization, multi-brand systems, governance. Issue #486 • Dec 10, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Ho, ho, ho Smashing Friends, The challenges we have
12/3/2024
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#485: UX Research
How to measure UX impact, research templates, UX research field guide and research methods. Issue #485 • Dec 3, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Jó estét Smashing Friends, In many
11/26/2024
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#484: Web Forms
Live validation UX, form design layout and interaction, placeholders, segmented controls, names, required and optional fields, measuring forms UX. Issue #484 • Nov 26, 2024 • View in the browser
11/19/2024
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#483: UX Writing
With writing guides, content testing and practical guides for better content design. Issue #483 • Nov 19, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hej Smashing Friends, Every digital product
11/12/2024
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#482: New Front-End Techniques
With high-definition colors, virtual keyboard on mobile, CSS and reliable dialog in HTML. Issue #482 • Nov 12, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hej Smashing Friends, I remember the good
11/5/2024
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#481: Front-End Techniques
With text balancing, exclusive accordions, CSS-only validation, responsive video and audio. Issue #481 • Nov 5, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hej Smashing Friends, As we keep searching
10/29/2024
13 : 54
#480: Design & UX Gems
Exploring fluid ways to interact with users, interactive cursors, common mistakes in software architecture and inspiring principles from nature. Issue #480 • Oct 29, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing
10/22/2024
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#479: New Front-End Adventures In 2025
CSS style queries, auto field-sizing for forms, simpler snapping, anchor positioning, smooth transitions with View Transitions API. Issue #479 • Oct 22, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter
10/20/2024
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#478: Inclusive Design
Accessible numbers, ADHD, readability guidelines, neurodiversity design system and inclusive mindset workbook. Issue #478 • Oct 15, 2024 • View in the browser Smashing Newsletter Hej Smashing Friends,