Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Meriem Benhabiles) |
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 structured UX thinking to dashboards and data presentations, from the questions you ask before opening any tool to the decisions that... read more
Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Pierre Burgy) |
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 optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and ... read more
Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Johan Grobler) |
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.... read more
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) |
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.... read more
Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Alexey Kopytin) |
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based ... read more
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Jad Joubran) |
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 platform can now handle for you.... read more
Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) |
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 those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got you covered!... read more
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Andy Budd) |
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 Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act.... read more
Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi) |
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 approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.... read more
Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar) |
While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers can exploit. Durgesh Pawar breaks down the mechanics behind the CVSS 10.0 “React2Shell” vulnerability to show how protocol manipula... read more