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- The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)by hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) on August 31, 2026 at 11:00 am
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly awaiting […]
- Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisionsby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Meriem Benhabiles) on August 26, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring […]
- Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changingby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Pierre Burgy) on August 25, 2026 at 8:00 am
Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously […]
- Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animationsby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Johan Grobler) on August 20, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.
- New EU Guidelines For AI Labellingby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) on August 13, 2026 at 10:00 am
New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.
- Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottieby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Alexey Kopytin) on August 11, 2026 at 10:00 am
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their […]
- How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScriptby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Jad Joubran) on August 7, 2026 at 1:00 pm
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web […]
- Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)by hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) on July 31, 2026 at 8:00 am
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all […]
- The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AIby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Andy Budd) on July 29, 2026 at 1:00 pm
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy […]
- Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Eraby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi) on July 28, 2026 at 10:00 am
Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different […]
- Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCsby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar) on July 21, 2026 at 10:00 am
While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers can […]
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Threadby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Ayomipo) on July 17, 2026 at 8:00 am
The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he […]
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Lifeby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) on July 15, 2026 at 10:00 am
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought […]
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Directionby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Anastasia Sycheva) on July 10, 2026 at 1:00 pm
The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand […]
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashionby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Kat Homan) on July 9, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, […]
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvasby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Zareen Tasnim) on July 7, 2026 at 10:00 am
We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an […]
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrationsby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) on July 3, 2026 at 1:00 pm
A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, established […]
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interfaceby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco) on July 2, 2026 at 10:00 am
We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is […]
- Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Featureby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Mikhail Prosmitskiy) on June 30, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an operational capability […]
- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)by hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) on June 30, 2026 at 11:00 am
July is just around the corner, and that means... It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created by the community […]


















