🎨🖌️ How about a cozy little creativity challenge this December? We might have one for you: Design a desktop wallpaper for January and get featured in our next wallpapers post on Dec 31. ↬ Join in: https://t.co/9lspiCz4uo We can’t wait to see your idea come to life!

✨ CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. ↬ Here’s an unpacking of the highlights and how they connect to the broader evolution of modern CSS: https://t.co/Iu4BfU1y2J

🔍 Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. @VictorYocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products:

Our Person of the Week is a researcher by background, committed to helping people around the world create and nurture healthy communities. Drumroll, please, for... James Lang! Thank you for everything you do for the web community, dear James! 🧡 #smashingcommunity

✨ CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work:

📣 PostgreSQL developers: Meet Azure HorizonDB the new AI-ready database service with native AI capabilities built in. For enterprise scale, security, and performance without compromise.

Please give a warm round of applause for our Person of the Week: Alwar Pillai, co-founder of Fable, an accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities. Thank you for everything you do to make the web more inclusive, dear @alwarpillai! 🧡 #smashingcommunity

Would you like to get featured in our upcoming wallpapers post? We’re still taking submissions for December, so don’t hesitate to join in. We’d love to see your story come to life! 📷 Join in: https://t.co/3J0vRa0uo5

🔮 State Of AI UX For Designers 2026 (free 3h video recording, video + all slides), on UX challenges of AI, how people use it, accessibility, voice UX and AI design patterns. 🔴 Full video + slides: https://t.co/S3u0TkH8lc 🧭 AI Solution Canvas (PDF):

Our Person of the Week is a consultant, trainer, and facilitator passionate about helping teams adopt new ways of working. Please give a warm round of applause for... Mark Eddleston! https://t.co/Nuq7VbQ7Ui Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Mark! 🧡

It’s giving minimum effort, maximum vacation vibes.

If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-tuning a design, the next you’re troubleshooting a slow server or a mysterious error. ↬ From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And

There are lots of tips for improving your website performance. But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? ↬ Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and

With component variants, design systems become more flexible, letting you reuse components while easily adapting their look or state. ↬ Daniel Schwarz on how to manage them with design tokens in Penpot, the open-source tool for scalable, consistent design:

Our Person of the Week is a Senior Product Designer, founder, and mentor on a mission to make design resources more accessible for designers. Drumroll, please, for... Ozan Öztaskiran! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @ozanoz! 💖 #smashingcommunity

Two top programs. One unforgettable night. Arkansas & Houston bring big time college basketball to the Garden State at Prudential Center on Saturday, December 20 for the 2025 Never Forget Tribute Classic! Buy your tickets today.

Drumroll, please, for our Person of the Week: Iain Bean! Iain is a Senior Developer interested in design systems, accessibility and typography. He’s also the creator of The Component Gallery. Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @iainmbean! 💖

As the month comes to a close, our November wallpaper collection is just around the corner. Would you like your design to be featured? There’s still one week left to submit your entry! 🎨🖌️ Join in: https://t.co/3J0vRa12dD

Drumroll, please, for our Person of the Week: Sean Goedecke! Sean is a software engineer at GitHub and writes about software engineering, with a focus on AI and large-scale company dynamics. Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @sjgoedecke! 💖

Our Person of the Week is a Principal Designer at Booking(dot)com and creator of the UX Survival Guide. Please give a warm round of applause for... Miranda Slayter! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Miranda! 💖 #smashingcommunity

Web designers like @reijowrites bring powerful interactions to the web with one platform: Framer

Our Person of the Week has over 20 years of experience as a software product designer and currently focuses on autonomous vehicles and AI-powered robots. Drumroll, please, for... Tanner Christensen! Thank you for everything you do for the community, Tanner! #smashingcommunity

🌊 Over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups often leaves the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. Can AI-powered prototyping be the answer? Is the future “vibe coding” or a more structured, intent-driven approach? https://t.co/MRdqG1o7JD