Nov 18 2025

Iris Lješnjanin - New Smashing Online Workshops on Front-End & UX

You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. We have a couple of workshops coming up soon, and we thought that, you know, y

Workshops , Events , Smashing

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2)

Welcome back to my long read about building better components — components that are more likely to be found, understood, modified, and updated in ways that promote adoption rather than abandonment.

Design System , Figma , Design

Nov 17 2025

Cosima Mielke - Free Fonts For Interface Designers

Not every project has the budget to spend a lot of money on fonts. But that doesn’t mean that typography needs to play a secondary role when the budget is tight. The variety and quality of free and

Round-Ups , Typography , fonts , Resources

Nov 17 2025

Frederick O’Brien - The Grayscale Problem

Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, gray, or silver, up from 60% in 2004. This trend has been attributed to co

Colors , Opinion Column , Design

Nov 17 2025

Eduard Kuric - Five-Second Testing: Taking A Closer Look At First Impressions (Case Study)

In today’s world of shortening attention spans and omnipresent hustle, wasting even a second could mean losing the chance to earn more time from a person you want to impress. If your interests lie i

User Research , testing , Usability , Case Studies