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Smashing Magazine Aug 20, 1:00 PM

Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations

Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

Smashing Magazine Aug 7, 1:00 PM

How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript

The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the...

Smashing Magazine Jul 21, 10:00 AM

Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs

While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks tha...

Smashing Magazine Jul 17, 8:00 AM

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use...

Smashing Magazine Jul 15, 10:00 AM

No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envis...

Smashing Magazine Jul 3, 1:00 PM

Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations

A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing,...

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Smashing Magazine Jun 3, 1:00 PM

How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready

Practical guide on how to reduce drifts, minimize mistakes, maintain context, and improve the quality of AI-generated prototypes. Brought to you by Design Pa...

Smashing Magazine May 28, 1:00 PM

Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`

Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript librar...

Smashing Magazine May 22, 1:00 PM

Four Levels Of Customer Understanding

What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the sur...

Smashing Magazine Apr 10, 1:00 PM

How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems

Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes. Brought to you by Measuring UX Impact, **friendly video...