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About Smashing Magazine

We make web design and development feel a little more human.

Smashing Magazine is an independent publication for web designers and developers — a place where craft, curiosity and community come before the algorithm. Since 2006 we've been collecting the practical, hard-won knowledge of people who build the web, and handing it back in a form you can actually use on a Tuesday afternoon.

The Smashing Cat

Meet the cat who keeps us honest.

Every publication needs a mascot, and ours wandered in carrying books, curiosity and a healthy disregard for corporate seriousness. The Smashing Cat shows up on our covers, in our workshop slides and at the bottom of our newsletters — a small, fuzzy reminder that the web is made by people, for people.

That spirit shapes our editorial voice: warm, direct and opinionated, but never gatekeeping. We write like a knowledgeable friend who's genuinely excited to show you something — and who'll tell you plainly when a trend isn't worth your weekend.

The Smashing Cat exploring new insights, at Smashing Workshops, of course.
That's The Smashing Family

More than articles — a whole ecosystem.

Smashing Magazine is one part of a wider family of things we make for the community: books you can hold, workshops you can attend, a membership that keeps the lights on, and a newsletter that lands in 182,000+ inboxes every week.

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Books & eBooks

Practical, beautifully printed references written by people who ship.

14 printed books and 67 eBooks
The Smashing Cat exploring new insights at a Smashing workshop. Workshops

Workshops

Small-group, hands-on sessions on front-end, UX, accessibility and performance.

Live & on-demand
The Smashing Cat exploring new insights at a Smashing workshop. Membership

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Weekly Newsletter

One considered email a week: the best links, articles and tools we found.

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By The Numbers

Built on readers, not investors.

We answer to the people who read us. That independence shows up in the numbers — and in the fact that we've never put an article behind a paywall.

14 printed books and 67 eBooks published
182,000+ readers of the weekly newsletter
1,916 Smashing Members keeping us independent
The People Behind The Pixels

Founders, editors and a very large family of contributors.

Smashing Magazine started with two people, a laptop and a stubborn belief that the web deserved better writing. Today it's a small core team working with hundreds of authors, reviewers and workshop coaches around the world.

Portrait of Milan Milanović, engineering writer and contributor.

Milan Milanović

Engineering & Architecture

Portrait of Christine Vallaure, design systems writer and contributor.

Christine Vallaure

Design Systems & Figma

Portrait of Ahmad Shadeed, CSS and front-end contributor.

Ahmad Shadeed

CSS & Front-End

Portrait of Kate Moran, UX research contributor.

Kate Moran

UX Research

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