SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Preethi Sam) |
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.... read more
Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Paul Boag) |
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.... read more
Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Marius Sarca) |
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.... read more
From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Karan Rawal) |
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 tr... read more
Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Ayomipo) |
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.... read more
Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Milan Balać) |
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-foo... read more
A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) |
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!... read more
Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Lyndon Cerejo) |
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 stru... read more
Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences (Part 1)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Milan Balać) |
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.... read more
Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Declan Chidlow) |
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.... read more