Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is a specialized digital publication focused on the practice and craft of building modern digital products.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 47
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Top 1M sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
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Under Autumn’s Spell (October 2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine (opens the original)
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Cosima has been an editor at SmashingMag since 2013. Whenever she’s not writing articles for the weekly Smashing Newsletter, she’s probably working on a … More about Cosima ↬ Weekly tips on front-end & UX.Trusted by 182,000+ folks. Misty mornings, leaves shining in bright red, yellow, and orange hues, and spooky creatures making an appearance — October has a very special charm. So, how about some new desktop wallpapers to celebrate October’s beauty, and the upcoming Halloween season, of course?
Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries — Smashing Magazine (opens the original)
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I Code. I Write. Meme Rules. Ok, but seriously, I’m a web and mobile developer who writes a lot. In my spare time, I like to build products that would … More about Victor ↬ Weekly tips on front-end & UX.Trusted by 182,000+ folks. To be completely honest with you, I missed the news when CSS Container Queries first shipped. And when I finally heard about it, my very first thought was, “Why exactly do I need this when media queries already exist?” I’m not proud of that reaction, knowing what I know
Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom — Smashing Magazine (opens the original)
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Alex Williams is a seasoned full-stack developer and the former owner of Hosting Data UK. After graduating from the University of London with a Masters Degree … More about Alex ↬ Weekly tips on front-end & UX.Trusted by 182,000+ folks. Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it ended, unfortunately, a while ago. These days, if you want to win b
Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom (opens the original)
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Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it ended, unfortunately, a while ago. These days, if you want to win budget, buy-in, and backing for UX, the design has to be provably good for the business, not only for the people using it. And proving that takes more than taping a dollar sign to a redesign. You have to understand how your organization
The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface — Smashing Magazine (opens the original)
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With over 20 years experience in the field of user centered design, and a background in web design and development, Carrie has worked in startups through to … More about Carrie ↬ Weekly tips on front-end & UX.Trusted by 182,000+ folks. Ever since the commercialisation of the Graphical User Interface pioneered by systems like the Xerox Star and popularised by the original Apple Macintosh, software has relied heavily on point-and-click interactions. If you wanted to book a trip, buy a pair of shoe
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