- Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)
Freitag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models, and user flows) directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation. - Same Idea, Different Paint Brush
Mittwoch 13:02 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Naturally, everything looks like code when I’m staring at a blank canvas. That’s whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you.Same Idea, Different Paint Brush originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Dienstag 11:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! - Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
Montag 14:31 – Juan Diego Rodríguez at CSS-Tricks
Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here’s all the CSS goodness you’ll want to know about.Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation
Freitag 14:45 – John Rhea at CSS-Tricks
John Rhea challenged himself to recreate the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
Freitag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time, saving you (and your team) from typing the same 448-word prompt ever again. - Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)
Mittwoch 17:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether AI-powered prototyping is the answer, questioning whether the path forward is the popular “vibe coding” approach or a more structured, intent-driven approach. - CSS Typed Arithmetic
Mittwoch 12:49 – Amit Sheen at CSS-Tricks
Starting in Chrome 140, we’ll be able to calculate numeric values with mixed data types. Sounds small, but Amit demonstrates how big a deal this is, calling it Computational CSS.CSS Typed Arithmetic originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
Montag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Creating motion can be tricky. Too much and it’s distracting. Too little and a design feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground — subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. In this article, web design pioneer Andy Clarke introduces the concept of ambient animations and explains how to implement them. - 20+ Best Portfolio Video Templates for Creatives in 2025
Sonntag 20:35 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of video templates for creating a stunning personal portfolio. There are templates for After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro.
The post 20+ Best Portfolio Video Templates for Creatives in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
Freitag 13:58 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
A set of notes taken from Eric Bailey’s article about the use of inclusive personas and user research.On inclusive personas and inclusive user research originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence
Freitag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, interactions feel seamless. When it fails, the entire experience collapses. But trust isn’t mystical. It can be understood, measured, and designed for. Here are practical methods and strategies for designing more trustworthy and ethical AI systems. - How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website
Donnerstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet. - Is it Time to Un-Sass?
Mittwoch 14:02 – Jeff Bridgforth at CSS-Tricks
Many of the Sass features we’ve grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgforth is thinking about it.Is it Time to Un-Sass? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data
Dienstag 17:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website. - Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow
Dienstag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way. - The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin()
Montag 14:31 – Juan Diego Rodríguez at CSS-Tricks
I want to look at practical uses for CSS trigonometric functions. And we’ll start with what may be the most popular functions of the „worst“ feature: sin() and cos().The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator
Montag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines the process, making it possible to produce lively animations in seconds, bypassing the tedious work of manual keyframe editing. - 30+ Best Business & Corporate Report Templates for InDesign & Photoshop in 2025
Samstag 14:43 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Business reports can span a wide array of use cases. You need everything from large annual reports to single-page product sheets. Not to mention all manner of niche documents. There’s…
The post 30+ Best Business & Corporate Report Templates for InDesign & Photoshop in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
Freitag 15:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of a delay or misstep is high. Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision, reduce cognitive overload, and make live systems trustworthy. - What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
Freitag 14:20 – Daniel Schwarz at CSS-Tricks
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. …What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Compiling Multiple CSS Files into One
Donnerstag 15:16 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Stu Robson outlines two ways to compile multiple CSS files when you aren’t relying on Sass for it.Compiling Multiple CSS Files into One originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties?
Mittwoch 13:13 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Everyone has a different opinion which is great because it demonstrates the messy, non-linear craft that is thinking like a front-end developer.What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project
Mittwoch 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it’s about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers without breaking anything. - Composition in CSS
Montag 13:55 – Zell Liew at CSS-Tricks
CSS is a composable language by nature. This composition nature is already built into the cascade. We simply don’t talk about composition as a Big Thing because it’s the nature of the language.Composition in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - 8 Autumn-Inspired CSS & JavaScript Effects
Montag 13:14 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
The colors and flavors of Autumn offer plenty of design inspiration. The innovative CSS and JavaScript snippets here will allow you to explore the season and sharpen your skills.
The post 8 Autumn-Inspired CSS & JavaScript Effects appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation
Freitag 13:44 – Sunkanmi Fafowora at CSS-Tricks
Color what? Sunkanmi Fafowora explains how an everyday task for CSS can be used to create better colors experiences.What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
Donnerstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/designing-tv-evergreen-pattern-shapes-tv-experiences/), it’s time to get practical. In the second part of the series, you’ll explore the building blocks of the “10-foot experience” and how to best utilise them in your designs. - Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values?
Dienstag 14:44 – Sunkanmi Fafowora at CSS-Tricks
The light-dark() function is currently designed to support just two color schemes. Should it support others? Sunkanmi Fafowora says yes and no.Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - 20+ Incredible Photoshop Actions for Sketching Effects in 2025
Sonntag 10:31 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Streamline your workflow and transform your photos into beautiful sketches with our collection of sketch photo effect actions.
The post 20+ Incredible Photoshop Actions for Sketching Effects in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Sonntag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy! - CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
Freitag 13:06 – Christian Sabourin at CSS-Tricks
In this article, author Chris Sabourin walk through how modern CSS features can build a fully functional, interactive elevator that knows where it is, where it’s headed, and how long it’ll take to get there. No JavaScript required.CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
Freitag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. This second article on AI augmenting design work introduces a designerly approach to prompting: one that blends creative briefing, interaction design, and structural clarity. - A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
Mittwoch 14:18 – Preethi at CSS-Tricks
Here’s an approach for animating products added to a shopping cart that handles an infinite number of items using a variation of the ol‘ Checkbox Hack.A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. - Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences (Part 1)
Mittwoch 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, and often overlooked field. It’s been guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still firmly constrained by its legacy. Follow Milan into the history, quirks, and unshakable rules that dictate how we control these devices. - Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes
Dienstag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but in moving away from a browser environment, we can introduce usability issues. This article covers how we can modify our app depending on what display mode is applied to mitigate these issues. - 10+ Best WordPress Block Themes for WooCommerce in 2025
Montag 20:21 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
These WooCommerce block themes will give you more design flexibility with modular control over the layout and styling. Building a stunning WordPress e-commerce store has never been easier!
The post 10+ Best WordPress Block Themes for WooCommerce in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - 25+ Best Free Figma Resume Templates for Designers in 2025
Samstag 6:19 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of free to download and use Figma templates for creating professional and beautifully designed resumes and CVs.
The post 25+ Best Free Figma Resume Templates for Designers in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - The 20+ Best Premiere Pro Transition Packs in 2025
Freitag 12:26 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A comprehensive and professional collection of Premiere Pro transitions for video editors. Includes dynamic, seamless, creative, and essential transitions.
The post The 20+ Best Premiere Pro Transition Packs in 2025 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer
Freitag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your design workflow.