Smashing Newsletter

About Smashing Newsletter

Smashing Newsletter is a weekly editorial email newsletter published by Smashing Magazine, covering front-end development and UX topics. It has published 570 issues and is sent every Tuesday, with content curated, written, and edited by the Smashing Magazine team. Past issue topics include accessibility, web performance, CSS techniques, design systems, and legacy code refactoring.

Subscribers receive Vitaly Friedman's Interface Design Checklists PDF as a signup incentive. The newsletter states it does not include third-party mailings or hidden advertising, though it sends at most one monthly special issue dedicated to Smashing's own projects and products. The publication reports over 182,000 subscribers and is intended for front-end developers and UX practitioners. Smashing Magazine was founded by Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz, and has operated since 2006.

Key features

• Weekly editorial newsletter on front-end development and UX
• Curated, hand-written and edited content with no third-party mailings
• Free Interface Design Checklists PDF gift for subscribers
• At most one monthly special issue for Smashing projects/products
• Ad content kept to a minimum per issue
• Archive of past issues organized by topic

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