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Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams

Our newest Smashing Book, “Accessible UX Research” by Michele Williams, is finally shipping worldwide — and we couldn’t be happier! This book is about research, but you’ll also...

Getting Started With The Popover API

What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into...

How being a strategic advisor helps grow design influence

How to gain influence when your org doesn’t prioritize designersContinue reading on UX Collective »

How Monotype turns selling fonts into daylight robbery

From small businesses to even the government, they may eat you up.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Integrating UX into capacity planning

What is teleoperation?

The invisible design layer that helps us reach large-scale robotics soonerContinue reading on UX Collective »

Designing at the edge of AI harm

A Call for UX and Design Practitioners to Reclaim the Practice as a Critical, Human-Centred SpaceContinue reading on UX Collective »

Something big, surveillance by default, agentic UX principles

Made to create, learning to curate: the designer’s dilemma

Designers aren’t burning out because AI is hard to use. They’re burning out because nothing else changed around it.Continue reading on UX Collective »

When design teams get rid of writers, nobody wins

How Open Source Can Grow Your Tech Career: A Handbook for Beginners

Hi everyone. In this handbook, you will learn about the growing world of open source, and how it can shape your career as a developer. Open source is...

OSS Pull Request Therapy: Learning to Enjoy Code Reviews with npmx

For years, I thought Open Source Software (OSS) just wasn’t for me. I had no plans to join any OSS communities on top of my existing developer community...

How to Run and Customize LLMs Locally with Ollama

In the long history of technological innovation, only a few developments have been as impactful as Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are advanced AI systems...

Build a Loom Clone with Next.js 15 and Mux

We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to build a professional screen recording platform from scratch. Using...

What is Disaster Recovery Testing? Explained with Practical Examples

Most teams are confident they can recover from a major outages until they actually have to. Backups exist, architectures are redundant and a recovery plan is...

Storyteller: A Medium For Guiding Others Through Code

As a computer science instructor, I have long wished that there was a better way to guide others through my code. When I was first learning to program, I was...

Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by the community for the community, the wallpapers in this collection...

A farewell to Flash

The justification tax