Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

You might have already read my name every now and then here at Smashing Magazine. I’m Paul Boag. I’ve written three books with Smashing and 77 articles (yes, I counted), and I sit on Smashing’s advisory board.

So when

I have had the privilege of helping to improve the accessibility of multiple immersive LLM chat experiences in the course of my career. Now I want to share this knowledge with you.

Accessibility is a core part of a functional digital experience. As the LLM chat pattern continues to spread like wildfire across the web, we risk excluding people if these ...

Have you ever replaced fifty lines of JavaScript with a few lines of CSS, merged the PR, and felt like you just did the codebase a favor? You replace ResizeObserver with a container query, the diff is mostly red, and everyone approves it before lunch.

This was what it looked like before you made the change:

The selector matches more than we meant.<...

November can feel rather gray in many parts of the world, so what better way to brighten the month than with some colorful inspiration? Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has you covered.

Following our monthly tradition, which has been ...

So what icon is the most reliable to show expansion and collapsing for accordions? Is there really any noticeable difference between carets, chevrons, arrows, and triangles?

Well, research shows that there is some difference indeed. But what’s mo...