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09/16/2025
From Smashing Magazine: SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data
SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data — Smashing Magazine From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website.
09/16/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow
Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow — Smashing Magazine For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way.
09/15/2025
From Speckyboy Design Magazine: 30+ Best Business & Corporate Report Templates for InDesign & Photoshop in 2025
30+ Best Business & Corporate Report Templates for InDesign & Photoshop in 2025 — Speckyboy Business reports can span a wide array of use cases. You need everything from large annual reports to single-page product sheets. Not to mention all manner of niche documents. There’s...
09/15/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator
Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator — Smashing Magazine Elastic and bounce effects have long been among the most desirable but time-consuming techniques in motion design. Expressive Animator streamlines the process, making it possible to produce lively animations in seconds, bypassing the tedious work of manual keyframe editing.
09/12/2025
From Smashing Magazine: From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards — Smashing Magazine Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of a delay or misstep is high. Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision, reduce cognitive overload, and make live systems tr...
09/10/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project
Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project — Smashing Magazine The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it’s about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers without breaking anything.
09/08/2025
From Speckyboy Design Magazine: 8 Autumn-Inspired CSS & JavaScript Effects
8 Autumn-Inspired CSS & JavaScript Effects — Speckyboy The colors and flavors of Autumn offer plenty of design inspiration. The innovative CSS and JavaScript snippets here will allow you to explore the season and sharpen your skills.
09/04/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/designing-tv-evergreen-pattern-shapes-tv-experiences/), it’s time to get practical. In the second part of the series, you’ll explore the building blocks of the “...
09/01/2025
From Speckyboy Design Magazine: 20+ Incredible Photoshop Actions for Sketching Effects in 2025
20+ Incredible Photoshop Actions for Sketching Effects in 2025 — Speckyboy Streamline your workflow and transform your photos into beautiful sketches with our collection of sketch photo effect actions.
08/31/2025
From Smashing Magazine: A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy!
08/29/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI — Smashing Magazine Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. This second article on AI augmenting design work introduces a designerly approach to prompting: one that blends creative briefing, interaction design, and stru...
08/27/2025
From Smashing Magazine: Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences
Designing For TV: The Evergreen Pattern That Shapes TV Experiences — Smashing Magazine TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, and often overlooked field. It’s been guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still firmly constrained by its legacy. Follow Milan into the history, quirks, and unshakable rules that dictate how we control these devices.