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Continue reading ↬ Victor Ayomipo / Jul 17, 2026 in Performance , JavaScript , Coding When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread Vitaly Friedman / Jul 15, 2026 in AI , UX , Design No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life Limited‑Time Offer 40% Off Coursera Plus Learn from Google, IBM, and Meta experts and top universities with Coursera Plus. Get Started ↬ Save 40% on your first 3 months of Coursera Plus. Accessible Front-End Components Reliable accessible UI components: :focus styles, modals, date pickers, navigation, tables, buttons, SVGs. Explore Accessible Components CSS Generators & Tools Useful CSS tools for animations, shadows, cubic-bezier curves, easing gradients, filters, overlays, type scales. Explore CSS Generators Front-End Boilerplates & Starter Kits HTML boilerplates, CSS resets, forms, dev themes, gitignore, CSS snippets, static sites, style guides. Explore Front-End Boilerplates See All Guides Latest Posts Anastasia Sycheva wrote From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation before a single concept is created. July 10, 2026 in Product Strategy , Branding , Business Kat Homan wrote Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering trust, and providing a sense of refuge. Kat Homan introduces an evaluation framework that helps designers assess whether trendy visual and interaction patterns support or undermine the unique goals of mental health experiences. July 9, 2026 in UX , UI , Design Zareen Tasnim wrote Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at Kirki , the first freeform visual builder with an infinite canvas, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency. July 7, 2026 in WordPress , Tools , Frameworks Vitaly Friedman wrote 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, established mental models. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces , friendly video course on UX and design patterns by Vitaly. July 3, 2026 in Design , AI , Design Patterns Join 1,916 Smashing Members A friendly community for people who design and build the web. With books, workshops, goodies and early-birds — for just 1 coffee a month. Take a look around. Join the community ↬ Already have an account? Sign in! Victor Yocco wrote Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to users’ context, intent, and cognitive load, so the interface adapts to the user, not the other way around. July 2, 2026 in AI , UX , Design Mikhail Prosmitskiy wrote Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an operational capability rather than a compliance checklist or end-of-project audit, and what that looks like in practice. June 30, 2026 in Accessibility , UX , Design Cosima Mielke wrote Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition) July is just around the corner, and that means… It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! June 30, 2026 in Wallpapers Pratik Joglekar wrote Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. 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Comeau wrote Getting Started With Anchor Positioning July 10, 2026 — Sticking one element to another element has for decades been one of the most challenging problems on the web. Josh W. Comeau shows how the new Anchor Positioning API solves it . Courtney Pester wrote How To Organize Design Projects July 9, 2026 — File management might seem like a small detail, but it’s essential for making collaboration with clients or a team of designers successful. Courtney Pester shares an organizational starter kit to help you manage projects with precision. Chela Giraldo wrote Snowflake Components July 8, 2026 — Snowflake components are those one-off custom components you end up de