Adobe Express used to be a joke — now it might be the smartest design tool you’re ignoring. After years of playing catch-up to Canva, it’s quietly evolved into a fast, AI-powered platform that actually feels good to use. If you wrote it off before, it might be time to open that tab again — […]
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This article is a sponsored by Accessible UX Research Smashing Library expands again! We’re so happy to announce our newest book, Accessible UX Research, is now available for download in eBook formats. Michele A. Williams takes us for a deep dive into the real world of UX testing, and provides a road map for including
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The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics. We’ve been tracking many of these features as well: The Interest Invoker API and Invoker Commands enable us to
From Adam, prototyped in Chrome Canary 145: h1 { text-grow: per-line scale; } Danny discussed this a while back when looking at different approaches for fitting text to a container, spelling out the syntax (text-shrink included) that you can find in Roma Komarov’s explainer: text-grow: <fit-target> <fit-method>? <length>?; text-shrink: <fit-target> <fit-method>? <length>?; <fit-target> per-line: For text-grow,
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If I were to divide CSS evolutions into categories, we have moved far beyond the days when we simply asked for border-radius to feel like we were living in the future. We are currently living in a moment where the platform is handing us tools that don’t just tweak the visual layer, but fundamentally redefine
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I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. Just when I opened my code editor and browser and began writing basic HTML boilerplate, my niece walked in. She is tiny and normally very loud, but was standing quietly next to my desk on this particular
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Blogging isn’t dead—it just got weird, broke up with Google, and joined a Substack cult. From SEO zombie posts to AI-written filler, we’ve lost the soul of writing—but the rebellion has already started. If you’ve got something real to say, now’s the time to blog like it’s 2004 (but with better fonts).
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Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive edge. Meanwhile, you’re sitting in your UX role wondering what this means for your team, your workflow, and your users. You might
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Web components, as imagined in 1998 from a never-adopted specification: Componentization is a powerful paradigm that allows component users to build applications using ‘building blocks’ of functionality without having to implement those building blocks themselves, or necessarily understand how the building works in fine detail. This method makes building complex applications easier by breaking them down
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In my last piece, we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, they must trust it. We talked about trust being a multifaceted construct, built on perceptions of an AI’s Ability, Benevolence, Integrity, and Predictability. But what happens when an AI, in its silent, algorithmic wisdom, makes a decision that
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