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Our Person of the Week is an information architect, writer, and community leader making information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone. Drumroll, please, for... Abby Covert!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @Abby_the_IA! 🧡

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🧡 We’ve been working on something new! We’ve teamed up with @boagworld for a new small community for people doing UX inside organizations — with weekly calls and a shared library of business cases, templates, and research plans that have actually worked for other folks. Jump to details: smashingmagazine.com/2026/11/ux-ins…

💬 As LLM chat patterns become more widespread, making them accessible is essential to ensuring everyone can access the information, tools, and opportunities they offer. Drawing on his work improving these interfaces, @ericwbailey shares practical ways to make chat-based experiences on the web more accessible and usable for people who rely on assistive technology: smashingmagazine.com/2026/11/making…

🧩 Replacing JavaScript with a modern CSS feature can simplify a piece of code while making the wider application harder to reason about. @theDocWhoCodes explores what happens when logic is split between CSS and JavaScript, sharing practical guidance to help you keep complexity in check during migration: smashingmagazine.com/2026/11/modern…

Our Person of the Week is a psychologist turned product designer, driven by a passion for simpler, more effective user experiences. Please give a warm round of applause for... Wouter de Bres!

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @WdeB! 🧡

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