Our Person of the Week is a dev team lead, accessibility advocate, mentor, coach, and open-source maintainer. Drumrolls, please, for... Henry Bley-Vroman!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @[email protected]!

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As retiring freemium plans is becoming standard practice, confusion arises between free tiers and free trials.

🤔💰 Juan Diego explains what exactly is so infuriating about a service offering a free tier and later deciding to transition to a priced one: smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/end-of…

Ensuring technology is accessible and inclusive is crucial, but gathering feedback directly from disabled users at the start of a project is challenging without accessible prototypes for testing.

💡Time to brainstorm solutions with Dr. Michele Williams: smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/conduc…

Harnessing AI’s potential for promoting neurodiversity demands a diverse, equitable, and inclusive approach to AI development.🌐Pratik Joglekar illustrates how AI can be leveraged to build tools that can be inclusive with a little bit of additional effort:smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/ai-neu…

The end of the month is coming closer, and that means… it’s time for wallpapers! If you’d like to get featured in our upcoming May wallpapers post next week, we are still accepting submissions. We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with!

🎨🖌️ Join in: smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/deskto…

Our Person of the Week is an educator and best-selling author who has taught data visualization and dashboard design to thousands of professionals. Drumrolls, please, for... Nick Desbarats!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Nick Desbarats!

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Curious about integrating GraphQL with WordPress in 2024?🌐 Dive into Leonardo Losoviz’s breakdown of developments that have taken place in this space over the last three years📈: smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/how-wo…

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🔍The Core Web Vitals metrics don’t only tell you how visitors experience your website but impact your Google search result rankings, too. Learn how to work with different types of Core Web Vitals data and how you can use DebugBear for ongoing monitoring:smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/monito…

Our Person of the Week is a Web Performance Developer Advocate, always eager to learn something new and to teach others. Drumrolls, please, for... Lazar Nikolov! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @nikolovlazar! 💖

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3D effects in CSS aren’t a new concept, but typical approaches use additional elements in the markup and pseudo-elements in the styles to pull it off. What if you don’t have the luxury to modify the HTML in a project?T. Afif @ CSS Challenges rises to the challenge🚀 smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/slidin…

✨ A free, open-source design tool based on open web standards that gives designers superpowers and a better place at the table.

Let’s explore Penpot’s latest feature, CSS Grid Layout: smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/penpot…

(Thank you, Mikolaj Dobrucki, for putting it all together!)

Communication theory is not just an academic exercise. Victor Yocco reviews the components of the Transactional Model of communication, explaining how you might apply this framework to preparing, conducting, and analyzing your UX research.📚💡 smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/applyi…

Our Person of the Week is a product designer, game maker, and developer focusing on ways to improve the lives of people through design. Please give a warm round of applause for... Catt Small!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Catt!

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What can we do to make a mobile app better? What subsidiary features benefit users? You might have some ideas. So does Preethi Sam.

↬ Without any prescriptions attached, here are features that can palpably improve user experience with a mobile app.📱✨ smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/things…

Tons of articles have been written about design systems, their complexity, and all the ways they can benefit a project.

Instead, Tatsiana Tarkan digs deep into iconography, offering practical tips to transform icon creation and maintenance into a joy.🎨✨ smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/iconog…

Remember the HTML <marquee> element? It’s deprecated, so it’s not like you’re going to use it when you need a horizontal auto-scrolling feature. That’s where CSS comes in.🌟

Learn how to make it possible with a set of images and as little HTML as possible:smashingmagazine.com/2024/04/infini…

Our Person of the Week is a design director and expert in research-driven design strategy, rapid prototyping, and global design systems. Drumrolls, please, for... Cameron Worboys!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear cam worboys!

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There’s no shortage of articles about the mental health of developers with advice for healthy work habits. But what working situations trigger things like stress, anxiety, and burnout? Victor Ayomipo shares his personal triggers and how he manages them.🎯 smashingmagazine.com/2024/03/develo…