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The Feed & The Thread - February 27, 2026
This episode explores designing for trust in an age of deepfakes, live coding at SmashingConf Amsterdam, and vanilla JS page transitions. Community discussions cover whether UX is really just managing trade-offs, the frustration of vibe coding overriding intentional design, and the gap between stakeholder intuition and actual user needs.
In This Episode
Designing for trust when deepfakes can mimic emergency information
SmashingConf Amsterdam experiments with live design and coding on stage
Vanilla JS page transitions that rival framework-based approaches
Community debate: Is UX design or…
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