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Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download

This article is a sponsored by Accessible UX ResearchSmashing 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 users with different abilities and needs in every phase of testing.But the truth is, you don’t need to be conducting UX testing or even be a UX professional to get a lot out of this

The business is the only stakeholder that matters

Why UX and Market Research should stop fighting and start working together.Photo by Mufid Majnun on UnsplashIt’s a debate I’ve been dragged into so many times, I've lost track: UX vs. Market Research? Qual vs. Quant? Who owns the insights? Who make the decisions? Who drives the strategy? Who makes the “real” impact?I've been a UX Researcher for over 20 years and my thinking is deeply rooted in building meaningful products and services that solve real human problems… (As opposed to fake p

How to approach creating design alternatives in a sustainable way

The rule of 3 in design isn’t feasible anymore, unless you do thisContinue reading on UX Collective »

State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025

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 how we architect interfaces. I thought the number of features announced in 2024 couldn’t be topped. I’ve never been so happily wrong.The Chrome team’s “CSS Wrapped 2025” is not just a list o

Is there such a thing as mindful scrolling?

What happens when you apply mindfulness to a mindless experience?Continue reading on UX Collective »

TelUI 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper

TelUI 1.1: New TelUI version Complete with tools to develop good software

Show HN: Tikpal- Your AI Voice Partner – Focus, Flow, Forge

We’re building Tikpal, an AI voice productivity tool based on a simple principle: Human creativity should remain the core engine. AI should be an accelerator, not the protagonist.The goal is to reduce screen dependency and cognitive fragmentation, and let people work in a more natural “voice-first” flow. Instead of clicking through interfaces and context-switching between apps, you talk to Tikpal, and it helps you think, structure ideas, and execute tasks.Three layers we are focusing on:FOCUS —

Blogging Is Dead. Long Live the Blog.

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).

Thought-shaped UI, sigma (Σ) shaped designers, Figma’s new DS features

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“We have a big choice to make: we’re about to jump into a new era of technology — meaning different values, expectations, and powers — and we need to choose what it looks like.*1 The transition itself is unavoidable, but the details are up to us.Today we must choose between a) a future where our software environment has a thought-shaped interface on top of all the old kludge, or b) a future where software is built from the ground up to

How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

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 even be worried about your job security.The problem is that the conversation about how AI gets implemented is happening right now, and if you’re not p

Pixels of the Week – December 7, 2025

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: you can't make something accessible for everyone, the need for accessible ads, UX research workshops with stakeholders, the design fundamentals problem, deceptive patterns and forced continuity, fran sans monospaced display font, retro futurist UI components, flags dataviz, virtual zine library, book recommendation tool. How to create 3D images in CSS with layered pattern.

Show HN: Speaker Analyzer – Get analytics on who spoke how much in your meetings

Hi HN!We built Speaker Analyzer to solve a simple problem: after long video meetings, I wanted to know who actually spoke, for how long, and how the conversation was distributed. I found myself wondering "did I dominate the conversation?" or "who barely spoke up?" With remote teams using Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, I can now export these transcript files and easily analyze participation patterns.What we built:A privacy-first tool that turns your meeting transcript files (*.

Show HN: Skedular, a Smart Booking and Workspace Management Platform

Hi HNI have been working on Skedular a platform that helps organizations councils co working spaces and local businesses manage bookings shared spaces and multi location operations in a simple modern wayWhat Skedular does - Manage rooms desks studios sports facilities meeting spaces and any kind of bookable asset - Handle multi location multi team scenarios - Provide public booking pages for venues - Offer a clean dashboard for operators to manage availability payments customers and sched

Show HN: Built an all-in-one feedback board for SaaS apps – Ship features

I’ve been building something I personally always needed - a simple, beautiful way to collect product feedback and decide what to build next. Today, it's finally live.Introducing: VicharFlowA minimal yet powerful tool to collect ideas → prioritize them → ship features users loveWhy I built it Every feedback tool I tried was either too bloated, too expensive, or just boring. So I made one that focuses on what matters:Everything essential. Nothing extra. FeaturesEmbedded Feedback Widget: Plug

How We Use Long-Term Memory and How it Informs Us Who We Are

The sensory, short-term, and long-term components of memory come from the well-established multi-store model of memory, first proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in the late 1960s (see below for the original paper). While not without its detractors, it is still the most commonly accepted description of how our memories work. The diagram shows the relationships between the three stores and the activities or events that “progress” memories from shorter-term stores, eventually to long-term memory, wh

What is Sensory Memory and How Does it Work?

Sensory memory isn’t a “true” type of memory because it doesn’t involve the hippocampus, which is the part of the brain where most conscious memory is stored. However, we’d be a bit lost without sensory memory since, without it, we wouldn’t be able to use our senses in a meaningful way.For example, a flat panel display, like those used with most modern technology, can show around 60 frames (separate full-screen images) per second. Imagine not being able to remember what you were looking at from

What Types of Memory do we Have?

Our focus here will be on how human memory is organized, along with a brief look at how it works. Our main goal is that you come away with a better understanding of how memory functions and some of its limitations so that we can be more effective as designers.The main topics are:Sensory memoryPerceptionShort-term memory and the magical number sevenLong-term memory and who we areHow reliable are our memories?In keeping with the theme of understanding how humans work – so that we can better design

The AI era needs Sigma (Σ) shaped designers (Not T or π)

For years, design and tech teams have relied on shape metaphors to describe expertise. We had T-shaped people (one deep skill, broad…Continue reading on UX Collective »

The stories that keep us obedient

James Baldwin on protection, avoidance, and the limits we inherit.James BaldwinWhat’s the balance between protection and control?Early on, the difference is hard to see. A rule tightens, choices narrow, and it still feels like someone watching out for us. But the moment we’re told which questions are acceptable, the story stops being something we believe and becomes something we’re permitted to follow.I’m Nate Sowder, and this is unquoted, installment 14. This week, we’re looking at James Baldwi