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Wallpapers are calling! Would you like to be featured in our upcoming October wallpapers post? Weβre still taking submissions, so feel free to join in. We canβt wait to see what you come up with!
π¨ποΈ Join in: smashingmagazine.com/2015/12β¦
ALT Illustrated desktop wallpaper showing an old campervan driving through a forest at night. The full moon is shining and the lights of the van light up the road.
ALT Illustrated desktop wallpaper showing a witchβs hat, broom, pumpkins, apple, leaves, and an acorn on a burgundy background. The text says βOctoberβ.
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Have you spotted our Person of the Week yet? Please give a warm round of applause for... Ruby Pryor!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Ruby! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Ruby Pryor.
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Our Person of the Week is a front-end architect and design systems consultant passionate about helping teams build scalable design systems. Drumroll, please, for... Stuart Robson!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @StuRobson! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Stuart Robson.
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Our Person of the Week is an early green web pioneer exploring ideas on how we can move toward a better world for everyone. Please give a warm round of applause, for... Tom Greenwood!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Tom! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Tom Greenwood.
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Our Person of the Week is an AI consultant focusing on closing the gap between AIβs promise and what organizations can actually deliver. Drumroll, please, for... Tey Bannerman!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Tey! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Tey Bannerman.
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π Data visualisation sits at the intersection of data and design. Many dashboards are technically correct and communicatively inert. They show the right numbers but still fail to lead to a decision or a change in thinking.
β¬ Meriem Benhabiles explores how structured UX thinking can turn data into insights that actually land: smashingmagazine.com/2026/08β¦
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Would you like to be featured in our September wallpapers post next week? Weβre still taking submissions, so please feel free to share your design with us. Weβd love to see what you come up with!
π¨ποΈ Join in: smashingmagazine.com/2015/12β¦
ALT Illustrated desktop wallpaper showing a group of friendly cats. 24 cats are huddled together at the bottom of the wallpaper, five cats are peeking in from the sides and the top, looking and waving at each other.
ALT Illustrated desktop wallpaper showing a comic-style Little Red Riding Hood in a spooky forest.
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β¨ Websites often peak on launch day, then slowly drift out of date. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. But thereβs a catch: almost nobody wants their site changing entirely on its own. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way: smashingmagazine.com/2026/08β¦
(Article supported by @fimoai π)
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Our Person of the Week is a content marketing expert passionate about helping others master the art and science of great writing and marketing. Drumroll, please, for... Ryan Law!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @thinking_slow! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Ryan Law.
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Our Person of the Week is an environmentally focused tech generalist advocating for a more sustainable internet. Drumroll, please, for... Chris Adams!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @mrchrisadams! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Chris Adams.
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π The EU has published new guidelinesΒ on the transparency of AI systems. Hereβs why AI sparkles alone arenβt enough, when AI labels are necessary, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products: smashingmagazine.com/2026/08β¦
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β¨ When building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture should serve the art direction. Alexey Kopytin explains how they built a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game without a single line of WebGL or Matter.js, using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over the designersβ intentional motion: smashingmagazine.com/2026/08β¦
(Article supported by @IsadoraAgency π)
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Our Person of the Week is a research leader, educator, writer, and UX research expert with over a decade of experience. Please give a warm round of applause for... Maria Rosala!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @maria_rosala! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Maria Rosala.
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π Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and we move on. But the web platform keeps moving too, and a surprising number of the libraries sitting in your package.json today are now built into the browser.
Hereβs a practical guide by @JoubranJad to auditing your dependencies and replacing libraries with the platform where it makes sense: smashingmagazine.com/2026/08β¦
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Our Person of the Week has more than 20 years of experience turning design into a strategic business advantage. Please give a warm round of applause for... Sudha Broslawsky!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @sudhabroslawsky! π§‘
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ALT The Person of the Week is Sudha Broslawsky.
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βοΈ Designers have spent years saying theyβd do better work if the organisation got out of the way. 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, @andybudd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act: smashingmagazine.com/2026/07β¦
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β¨ 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: smashingmagazine.com/2026/07β¦
(Article supported by @MacPaw π)
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In addition to his work as a product design lead, our Person of the Week is passionate about raising awareness for mental health and neurodiversity. Drumroll, please, for... Clive K. Lavery!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @cklavery! π§‘
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βοΈ React Server Components donβt send HTML or JSON. They rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs. But that same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks attackers can exploit.
β¬ Durgesh Pawar breaks down the CVSS 10.0 βReact2Shellβ vulnerability, explains how protocol manipulation can lead to remote code execution, and shares practical defenses for hardening React applications: smashingmagazine.com/2026/07β¦
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Our Person of the Week advocates for a web that is faster, lighter, and more respectful of the people using it. Please give a warm round of applause for... Ines Akrap!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @InesAkrap! π§‘
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