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

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

Do you have some sketches lying around that are too good not to be shared? Why not turn them into a desktop wallpaper to brighten up someone’s day? We’d love to feature your design in our upcoming October wallpapers post next week! 🎨🖌️ Join in: https://t.co/9lspiCzCjW

✨ Creating motion can be tricky. Too much and it’s distracting. Too little and a design feels flat. Ambient animations are the middle ground — subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. @Malarkey shows how to bring them into your projects:

Our Person of the Week is a UX and product expert passionate about creating resources to help designers advance in their careers. Drumroll, please, for... Simonas Maciulis! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @simonasmaciulis! #smashingcommunity

👥 For too long, personas have been something that many of us just created, despite the considerable work that goes into them, only to find they have limited usefulness. @boagworld shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to

🔍 Real-time search results power smarter apps, whether for SEO, price monitoring, AI training, or local data parsing. See how tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website:

🎨 Elastic and bounce effects are motion design favorites, but also some of the most time-consuming to create. Luckily, new tools make it easier. Meet Expressive Animator: lively animations in seconds, no tedious work of manual keyframe editing required:

Our Person of the Week is passionate about building tools and systems that make data visualizations accessible for people with disabilities. Drumroll, please, for... Frank Elavsky! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @FrankElavsky! #smashingcommunity

🌀 CSS Cascade Layers sound neat, but what happens when you drop them into a messy legacy codebase? Let’s talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti:

Our Person of the Week is a product designer, author, and maker, passionate about helping designers build better products. Please give a warm round of applause for... Artiom Dashinsky! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @hvost! #smashingcommunity

✨ After covering in detail the underlying interaction paradigms of TV experiences in Part 1, it’s time to get practical. Explore the building blocks of the “10-foot experience” and how to best utilise them in your designs: ↬ Part 1: https://t.co/41obrptnQZ ↬ Part 2:

Our Person of the Week specializes in UI design and design systems and is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience. Drumrolls, please, for... Adham Dannaway! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @AdhamDannaway! #smashingcommunity

🤖 Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. ↬ Let’s explore a designerly approach to prompting: one that blends creative briefing, interaction design, and structural clarity:

📺 TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, and often overlooked field. It’s been guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still firmly constrained by its legacy. ↬ Follow Milan into the history, quirks, and unshakable rules that dictate how we control these

🌐 Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but moving away from a browser environment can introduce usability issues. ↬ Declan explains how we can modify our app depending on what display mode is applied to mitigate these issues:

Our Person of the Week has over a decade of experience developing training, tools, and systems for data visualization creators. Please give a warm round of applause for... Lilach Laurio! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @lilachmanheim! #smashingcommunity

✨ What would a week with AI in your UX workflow actually look like? A grounded, week-long experiment shows how to integrate AI into your design process without losing the human touch: https://t.co/pWCRNRVI9W

Our monthly desktop wallpapers series is the perfect occasion to put your creative skills to the test. Ready to take on the challenge this month? 🖌️ Join in: https://t.co/3J0vRa0uo5 We’d love to feature your design in our September wallpapers post next week!