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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 find more useful guides and online workshops here on Smashing Magazine, so make sure to browse and explore.
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 random() function brings a little imperfection to the web without JavaScript libraries or preprocessor loops that generate hundreds of lines of static CSS.
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.
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A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more useful guides and online workshops here on Smashing Magazine, so make sure to browse and explore.
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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 container queries help reusable components respond naturally to the contexts in which they appear. - CSS - Tools - Techniques
Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for the return on a design initiative. - UX - Design - Business
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Abby Covert is an information architect, teacher, author, and community leader with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate messes of information. Committed to making information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone, she shares insights on these topics through her writing — including her books How to Make Sense of Any Mess, Stuck? Diagrams Help, and Timeless Sensemaking for Modern Sensemakers — and as a speaker. Abby is also the founder of The Sensemakers Club, a community-powered education and discussion space. Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Abby!
How to build AI-augmented user experience research operations? Kate Towsey put together a comprehensive map, with AI maturity levels and a list of practices used by researchers to learn and experiment with.
Drag-and-drop interactions often involve a lot of fiddly code to handle geometry, feedback, and animations. Joshua Horowitz, Andrew Blinn, and Jeffrey Heer created declarative dragging to simplify the creation of smooth, responsive drag-and-drop interactions.
More proof doesn’t help customers decide. Sometimes, it makes it worse. Kat Espinosa shares how a project helped her realize why and what you can do to help your prospects make the best decision.
Jason Mesut’s article series “Shaping Design” is a wonderful resource to help designers and design teams self-reflect, direct their future, and develop others.
How to balance business goals and user needs? Adrian Raudaschl explains how the TARS framework helps you evaluate features and answer the crucial question what a good outcome for your feature looks like.
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