Smashing Magazine

✨ 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://lnkd.in/gUAYZKkD

🔍 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. ↬ Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products: https://lnkd.in/e88ytmvz

✨ 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: https://lnkd.in/ghkmTbMe

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://lnkd.in/egKuKjim

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://lnkd.in/esjysvfX Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Mark! 🧡 #smashingcommunity

🤖 Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. Explore how AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work: https://lnkd.in/eR7M_5AK

In the noisy and polluted world today, trust doesn’t come for free. It doesn’t emerge by default. It must be earned and meticulously preserved — by being reliable, accountable, and treating customers with respect. This holds true for people, but it also holds true for software. In this newsletter, we look at design patterns for building trust — with useful guidelines and pointers to more trustworthy and reliable AI experiences, and how to orchestrate them. And if you’d like to dive deeper, we have a whole video library on design patterns for AI as well. Subscribe to SmashingMag's weekly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/edCc3zW

There are lots of tips for improving your website performance. But even if you follow all the advice, can you maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? ↬ Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and explains the roles that different types of data play in it: https://lnkd.in/gYJdwAaJ (This article is supported by DebugBear 💖)

With component variants, design systems become more flexible, allowing you to reuse components while easily adapting their appearance or state. ↬ Daniel Schwarz on how to manage them with design tokens in Penpot, the open-source tool for scalable, consistent design: https://lnkd.in/gQm8uQ5d (This article is supported by Penpot 💖 )

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 Ozan Öztaskiran! 💖 #smashingcommunity