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• Casting Actors / Performers - Pro-Bono Web Design Performative Project (7.31.25) - Playbill

  17-06-2025 15:20
  Casting Actors / Performers - Pro-Bono Web Design Performative Project (7.31.25)  Playbill
  
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• Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking

  16-06-2026 17:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy that didn’t exist. The airline refused to honor it. A tribunal ruled in the customer’s favor. The bot hadn't decided anything; it had predicted an answer based on patterns in its training data. The company treated that prediction as policy.
  This is the risk at the heart of designing with AI today: probabilistic systems wrapped in deterministic interfaces. The AI offer
  
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• The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity

  12-06-2026 10:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  For decades, science fiction has cushioned us with the idea that the “android revolution” was a distant fantasy. But the reality is unfolding rapidly. As the line between human and machine blurs, we are forced to confront an impending psychological, economic, and existential shift.
  I recently felt very disturbed after watching a YouTube video showcasing a humanoid robot that looked and acted with uncanny realism. While a closer look revealed the video was actually a clever trick, the
  
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• The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research

  10-06-2026 12:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how best to perform accessibility testing with people with cognitive disabilities. This was work I did for Fable, where I am currently VP of Innovation.
  Cognitive disability is an umbrella term for several disabilities that impact how people process information, and it usually affects memory, focus, and/or learning. It is the most prevalent disability in the U.S. (13.9% via CDC), and
  
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• How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready

  03-06-2026 15:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  AI-generated prototypes often don't deliver consistently decent results because of tiny inconsistencies scattered all across a design system. I's decisions made but not documented, hard-coded values never cleaned up, or relying too much on AI making sense of mock-ups or design flows on its own.
  Yesterday I stumbled upon a useful practical guide by Hardik Pandya from Atlassian — on how to reduce drifts, minimize mistakes, maintain context, and improve the quality of AI-generated prototypes.
  
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• June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

  31-05-2026 10:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  Everyone has a creative spark in them. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect moment with a camera or love to grab pen and paper to create little doodles or pieces of lettering. And even if you don’t think of yourself as particularly creative, who knows? There might be a hidden talent waiting to be discovered!That’s exactly what our monthly wallpapers series has been all about for over 15 years now. It’s a chance to step away from the ever
  
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• Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`

  28-05-2026 15:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  The HTTP Archive Web Almanac has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The numbers have barely moved. After half a decade of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and entire JavaScript libraries dedicated to computing readable text colors, 70% of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. The WebAIM Million paints an even grimmer picture — 83.9% of homepages flagged for low contrast text in 2026, up from 79.1% in 2025. The rate improves by maybe a few percen
  
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• 10 DuckDuckGo Features Worth Using Beyond Private Search

  26-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  
  Most people switch to DuckDuckGo for privacy. That is a good reason, but it is not the only reason to use it. If you are still weighing search options, this older look at why people use DuckDuckGo is a useful companion.DuckDuckGo also has practical features that make everyday searching faster and cleaner. You can send searches straight to other sites, hide AI-generated images, block junk domains, expand shortened links, and use private email aliases.
  If DuckDuckGo is already your default search
  
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• Chrome May Be Quietly Storing a Multi-GB AI Model on Your Computer

  25-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  
  Chrome can use more than memory, battery, CPU, and tab space. Its on-device AI features can also store several gigabytes of model files on your computer. If you like keeping Chrome lean, these quick Chrome tips are still useful, but this storage check is more specific.
  The file to look for is weights.bin. It appears inside Chrome’s browser data directory, under a folder named OptGuideOnDeviceModel, and is connected to Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device AI model for Chrome.This file help
  
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• Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)

  25-05-2026 14:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  This article is a sponsored by ProtoPie
  There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness.
  In financial product testing, the problem is sharper. Finance users are trained to n
  
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• Four Levels Of Customer Understanding

  22-05-2026 15:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  Many companies think they know fairly well what their users want and need, and how they make their decisions. Yet most of the time these are merely big assumptions and big hunches — with little real evidence to support them. In practice, obvious reasons might be true, but they rarely paint the full picture.
  To understand our customers, we must triangulate across four levels of customer understanding by Hannah Shamji. It’s a useful way to think about the underlying reasons for user be
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Gemini Omni

  22-05-2026 12:00 via hongkiat.com
  Google has been talking about multimodal AI for years. Text, images, audio, video, code, search, agents: all slowly being pulled into the same Gemini orbit.
  Gemini Omni feels like the next obvious step, but also a weirdly ambitious one.Announced at Google I/O 2026, Gemini Omni is Google’s new model family for creating and editing media from mixed inputs. The first release is Gemini Omni Flash, and Google is starting with video.
  That last part is important. Omni is not just another chatbot
  
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• How to Use SuperGrok With Hermes Agent Without an xAI API Key

  21-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  Hermes Agent can use Grok through an existing SuperGrok subscription, or through an X Premium+ subscription linked to the X account you sign in with. That means you do not need to create an XAI_API_KEY just to try xAI models inside Hermes.
  You log in once through a browser-based OAuth flow, Hermes saves the tokens locally, and future sessions refresh automatically in the background.That is the simple version. The nicer part is that the same login also covers Hermes’ direct xAI media tools,
  
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• Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`

  21-05-2026 10:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered cascade effect. Looks great. Should be simple. And yet every time I’ve built it, the implementation has made me feel like I’m doing something fundamentally stupid.What’s Coming
  The current spec only counts all element siblings. But the CSSWG has documented a planned extension in issue #9572: an of <selector> argument, matching what :nth-child() already suppor
  
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• Compress Images, Videos, PDFs on Mac for Free with Dinky

  19-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  File compression apps tend to fall into two camps: image-only tools that barely touch videos or PDFs, and bloated converters that feel like overkill for quick jobs.
  Dinky is a free Mac app that compresses images, videos, audio files, and PDFs without sending anything to the cloud.
  You drag something in, pick a format or preset, and get a smaller file back.It also does more than squeeze files blindly.
  For images, it converts them into more efficient formats such as WebP, AVIF, HEIC, or lossless P
  
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• Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI

  15-05-2026 12:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but potentially millions in wasted engineering spend and lost business value. As a veteran UX designer who has helped build digital products since the early mobile-first era, I’ve watched business leaders shift from viewing design as a “cosmetic preference” to recognising that user experience is actually the primary engine of business survival.A UX design rol
  
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• Kiwi Web Design Ranked First in New 2026 Guide to SEO Agencies in Auckland - openPR.com

  15-05-2026 09:59
  Kiwi Web Design Ranked First in New 2026 Guide to SEO Agencies in Auckland  openPR.com
  
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• Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)

  13-05-2026 15:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  In the first part of this series, we talked about the Decision Node Audit. We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to pinpoint the exact moments it makes decisions based on probabilities. This told us when the system needs to be transparent with the user. Now, the big question is how to share that information.
  You’ve got your Transparency Matrix ready. You know which behind-the-scenes API calls need a visible status update. Your engineers are on board with the technical aspect
  
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• Taxi Web Design Launches Complete Booking Software for Taxi, Limo and Chauffeur Companies - The National Law Review

  13-05-2026 08:46
  Taxi Web Design Launches Complete Booking Software for Taxi, Limo and Chauffeur Companies  The National Law Review
  
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• Scalable Web Design Gains Urgency as 91% Adapt for AI - DesignRush

  12-05-2026 11:08
  Scalable Web Design Gains Urgency as 91% Adapt for AI  DesignRush
  
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• Fort Worth Web Design Company Crestroc Marketing Announces Commit - The National Law Review

  11-05-2026 08:09
  Fort Worth Web Design Company Crestroc Marketing Announces Commit  The National Law Review
  
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• DOJO DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT MARKS 10 YEARS AS RALEIGH'S PREMIER WEB - The National Law Review

  09-05-2026 08:24
  DOJO DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT MARKS 10 YEARS AS RALEIGH'S PREMIER WEB  The National Law Review
  
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• Web Designer Factory Expands Web Design and SEO Services Across Dallas, Houston and San Antonio - The National Law Review

  07-05-2026 16:51
  Web Designer Factory Expands Web Design and SEO Services Across Dallas, Houston and San Antonio  The National Law Review
  
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• Saad Ashraf Launches Premium Web Design Dubai Services to Help UAE Businesses Build High-Converting Websites - openPR.com

  06-05-2026 14:26
  Saad Ashraf Launches Premium Web Design Dubai Services to Help UAE Businesses Build High-Converting Websites  openPR.com
  
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• The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development

  06-05-2026 12:00 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  Last October, I was sitting in a hotel room in Lisbon, the night before I was supposed to demo a project management tool my team had spent four months building. The hotel Wi-Fi was doing that thing where it connects but nothing actually loads. And I watched our app, this thing I was genuinely proud of, render a blank screen with a spinner. Then a timeout error. Then nothing.
  I pulled out my phone, tethered to cellular, and got a shaky connection. The app loaded, but every click was a two-second
  
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• The Role of Personalization in Modern Mental Health Web Design - vocal.media

  06-05-2026 10:49
  The Role of Personalization in Modern Mental Health Web Design  vocal.media
  
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• Codex Pets: What They Are and How to Hatch Your Own

  06-05-2026 09:00 via hongkiat.com
  Codex now has desktop pets. Yes, really.
  They are optional animated companions for the Codex app: small floating overlays that sit on your screen while Codex works. The silly part is obvious. The useful part takes about five minutes to notice.A Codex Pet can show whether Codex is running, waiting for input, or ready for review without making you switch back to the app every few minutes. If you already compare coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, this is the softer side of the same product q
  
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• Binky Is a Free Mac App That Sorts Messy Folders for You

  05-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  Every Mac has a problem folder. Downloads is the obvious one, but it might be your Desktop, a Dropbox inbox, a screenshots folder, or a project folder where exported files keep piling up.
  Binky is a native macOS app for cleaning up those fussy folders. It can sort a folder on demand, watch folders continuously, and move files according to rules you control. It waits for files to finish arriving first, then routes them into folders like Images, PDFs, Media, Documents, Archives, Apps, Screenshots,
  
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• 5 Color Palette Generator Websites Worth Using

  05-05-2026 15:00 via hongkiat.com
  Picking colors sounds easy until you actually have to do it.
  You open a blank canvas, try a few hex codes, hate all of them, then end up nudging saturation sliders for twenty minutes like that somehow counts as design progress.
  I have been there more times than I want to admit.
  There are plenty of websites that can help you generate palettes, browse combinations, test contrast, and build gradients without fighting your tools. If you want to understand why some combinations work and others do not
  
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• Minneapolis Made Expands Web Design and SEO Services to Help Local Businesses Get Cited by AI Search Tools - The National Law Review

  05-05-2026 13:13
  Minneapolis Made Expands Web Design and SEO Services to Help Local Businesses Get Cited by AI Search Tools  The National Law Review
  
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