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Our Person of the Week loves helping people turn boring facts into compelling stories. Drumroll, please, for... Ben Sauer!
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Our Person of the Week is passionate about turning chaos into cohesion with scalable, intuitive systems. Please give a warm round of applause for... Donnie DβAmato!
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π Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didnβt need better libraries. Weβve needed better CSS. The contrast-color() function is that better CSS: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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β¨ Thereβs a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether theyβre βdoing it right.β That pause is a clear sign. Theyβve already clocked that this isnβt a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness. Hereβs a tutorial on how to fix it: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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Have you spotted our Person of the Week already? Please give a warm round of applause to... Juan Diego RodrΓguez!
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π What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the different layers of reality that shape how people act: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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π Meet sibling-index() and sibling-count(). Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without :nth-child() rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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Our Person of the Week specializes in designing software and building teams, from 0 to 1. Please give a warm round of applause for... Rachel Ilan Simpson!
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β³ UX design is no longer a team you hire to βmake things look nice.β It is the research-driven, data-backed discipline that ensures your digital product isnβt just a cost centre, but a revenue-generating machine. Here are ten UX facts that connect user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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β¨ Design always starts with function β function shapes form. But when that function canβt be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of the experience.
The question is no longer βShould your utility software feel better to use?β but βCan it afford not to?β smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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Our Person of the Week is a software engineer and author passionate about helping others navigate the complexities of web development. Drumroll, please, for... Joe Attardi!
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β¨ What does it really take to build local-first web apps in 2026? A grounded, experience-driven perspective for developers whoβve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets: smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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π Streaming UIs look simple β until you build them. There are many considerations, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be needed? smashingmagazine.com/2026/05β¦
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Our Person of the Week is a designer, consultant, and writer specializing in design principles, design systems, and product strategy. Drumroll, please, for... Ben Brignell!
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π€ AI tools are eliminating the need to βbugβ colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that builds team trust, belonging, and innovation. Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive raise questions about the potential impacts of this shift and offer strategies for maintaining human connection while leveraging AIβs strengths: smashingmagazine.com/2026/04β¦
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Our Person of the Week creates resources that help teams apply behavioral science, product discovery, and experimentation to digital products. Drumroll, please, for... Anders Toxboe!
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Would you like to get featured in our upcoming May wallpapers post next week? Weβre still taking submissions, so feel free to share your design with us! Weβd love to see what youβll come up with!
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ALT A desktop wallpaper showing an illustration of a comic-style R2D2 robot disguised as a pirate, with eyepatch and a small black bird sitting on its shoulder. The text reads βArrr2-D2β.
ALT A desktop wallpaper showing a comic-style pink flower with thin, long legs and arms. It wears white gloves and light blue sneakers as it walks along a sunny path, smiling, waving, and giving a thumbs up. The text reads βHello Mayβ.
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β¨ In a rush to embrace AI, the industry is redefining what it means to be a UX designer, blurring the line between design and engineering. Carrie Webster explores whatβs gained, whatβs lost, and why designers need to remain the guardians of the user experience: smashingmagazine.com/2026/04β¦
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π Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities. Thoughtful session management improves usability and creates a more accessible, respectful web: smashingmagazine.com/2026/04β¦
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Our Person of the Week specializes in UX design for medical devices, complex software, and embedded GUIs. Please give a warm round of applause for... Dennis Lenard!
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