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⏱️ Almost any kind of application written in JavaScript works with dates or times in some capacity. Initially, this was limited to the built-in Date API, then Moment.js, and now the new Temporal standard has landed.

↬ Here are practical “recipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API: https://deploy-preview-10644--smashing-prod.netlify.app/2026/03/moving-from-moment-to-temporal-api/

Smashing Magazine 4d ago

For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of border-radius, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new corner-shape property finally changes that, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/beyond-border-radius-css-corner-shape-property-ui/

Smashing Magazine 5d ago

Some forms stay UI. Others quietly become rule engines. 🎨⚙️

Why do these two approaches exist? And how do you choose between them? https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/building-dynamic-forms-react-next-js/

Smashing Magazine Mar 9

🧩 Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention – only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamification.

↬ A decade later, Anders Toxboe revisits persuasive design, clarifying what still holds up and how modern frameworks can guide both discovery and ideation: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/persuasive-design-ten-years-later/

Smashing Magazine Feb 24

♻️ Every high-resolution hero image, autoplay video, and complex JS animation carries a cost. Sustainable UX challenges the era of “unlimited pixels” and reframes performance as responsibility: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/02/designer-guide-eco-friendly-interfaces/

Smashing Magazine Feb 5

🚀 Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new @Scope rule finally give developers the confidence to write CSS that can keep up with modern front ends? https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/02/css-scope-alternative-naming-conventions/

Smashing Magazine Jan 29

🎯 Developing effective agentic AI requires a new research playbook. When systems plan, decide, and act on our behalf, UX moves beyond usability testing into the realm of trust, consent, and accountability. Victor Yocco explains how to design these systems responsibly: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/beyond-generative-rise-agentic-ai-user-centric-design/

Smashing Magazine Jan 27

🧩 In CSS, stacking contexts are incredibly useful, but they’re also widely misunderstood and cause layout headaches.

↬ Learn how elements are “stacked” on a webpage, what controls the stacking order, and how to “unstack” them when needed: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/unstacking-css-stacking-contexts/

Smashing Magazine Jan 20

🚀 It’s 2026. The web is faster, more fluid, and more powerful than ever. Yet we’re still chasing “pixel perfect.”

↬ Amit Sheen questions this legacy concept that no longer fits how we design and build today, explaining why it’s failing us and redefining what “perfection” actually looks like: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/rethinking-pixel-perfect-web-design/

Smashing Magazine Jan 14

🎨 Relative colour doesn’t just make theming easier. It encourages a way of thinking where colour, like motion, is intentional — and where changing one value can transform an entire scene without rewriting the work beneath it.

↬ Andy Clarke shares practical techniques for using CSS relative colour values to theme and animate SVG graphics: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/smashing-animations-part-8-css-relative-colour/