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04/10/2026   Smashing Magazine
Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes. Brought to you by Measuring UX Impact, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
04/09/2026   CSS Tricks

A clever approach for selecting multiple dates on a calendar where the :nth-child()'s “n of selector” syntax does all the heavy lifting... even in the JavaScript.


Selecting a Date Range in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/07/2026   CSS Tricks

Cascade layers, specificity tricks, smarter ordering, and even some clever selector hacks can often replace !important with something cleaner, more predictable, and far less embarrassing to explain to your future self.


Alternatives to the !important Keyword originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/07/2026   Smashing Magazine
Designing for agentic AI requires attention to both the system’s behavior and the transparency of its actions. Between the black box and the data dump lies a more thoughtful approach. Victor Yocco explores how to map decision points and reveal the right moments to build trust through clarity, not noise.
04/06/2026   CSS Tricks

Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row below, creating a vertical scroll instead of a horizontal scroll.


Looking at New CSS Multi-Column Layout Wrapping Features originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/02/2026   CSS Tricks

Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such as triangles, hexagons, stars, hearts, etc. is more challenging but still a simple task if we rely on modern features.


Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/01/2026   CSS Tricks

These are the historical pranks I consider the top 10 most noteworthy, rather than the “best.” You’ll see that some of them crossed the line and/or backfired.


Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/01/2026   CSS Tricks

A deep sniff of the new CSS Olfactive API, a set of proposed features for immersive user experiences using smell.


Sniffing Out the CSS Olfactive API originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

04/01/2026   Smashing Magazine
Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
03/31/2026   CSS Tricks

Short n’ sweet but ever so neat, this issue covers light/dark favicons, @mixin, anchor-interpolated morphing, object-view-box, new web features, and more.


What’s !important #8: Light/Dark Favicons, @mixin, object-view-box, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/31/2026   Smashing Magazine
With the new month just around the corner, could there be a better occasion to freshen up your desktop? If you’re looking for some unique and inspiring wallpapers to accompany you on all those adventures that April may bring — and maybe spark some new ideas, too — well, this post has got you covered.
03/30/2026   CSS Tricks

That gap between "the form works" and "the business works" is something we don't really tend to discuss much as front-enders. We focus a great deal on user experience, validation methods, and accessibility, yet we overlook what the data does once it leaves our control


Form Automation Tips for Happier User and Clients originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/26/2026   CSS Tricks

Looking at research and experiments that are designed to automatically generate user interfaces based on user preferences.


Generative UI Notes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/26/2026   Smashing Magazine
Success in modern UX isn’t about having the most content. It’s about having the most findable content. Yet even with more data and better tools than ever, internal search often fails, leaving users to rely on global search engines to find a single page on a local site. Why does the “Big Box” still win, and how can we bring users back?
03/24/2026   Smashing Magazine
Accessibility works best when it blends into everyday design workflows. The goal isn’t a big transformation, but simple work processes that fit naturally into a team’s routine. With Figma variables, testing font size increases becomes part of the design flow itself, making accessibility feel almost inevitable rather than optional.
03/23/2026   CSS Tricks

The new CSS corner-shape() property is mathematical, so it’s easily animated. Author Daniel Schwarz pokes at animating the property for interesting UI effects.


Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/19/2026   Smashing Magazine
How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation. Brought to you by Smart Interface Design Patterns, a **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
03/19/2026   CSS Tricks

Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring.


JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/17/2026   Smashing Magazine
Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan Da Dan and superhero films like James Gunn’s Superman manage emotional shifts and translating those ideas into practical patterns for product design.
03/16/2026   CSS Tricks

For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more.


What’s !important #7: random(), Folded Corners, Anchored Container Queries, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/16/2026   CSS Tricks

Tailwind is really great for making layouts and there are many reasons why. Zell Liew looks at four specific examples of common use cases.


4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

03/13/2026   Smashing Magazine
The way JavaScript handles time has evolved significantly, from the built-in `Date` API to Moment.js and now Temporal. The new standard fills gaps in the original `Date` API while addressing limitations found in Moment and other libraries. Joe Attardi shares practical “recipes” for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API.
03/12/2026   Smashing Magazine
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.
03/11/2026   CSS Tricks

Let’s go over a few demos using the new customizable <select> feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS.


Abusing Customizable Selects originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.