Nov 17 2025

Cosima Mielke - Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To cater for new and unique designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than

Wallpapers

Nov 18 2025

Iris Lješnjanin - New Smashing Workshops on Front-End & Design

You might know it already, but perhaps not yet: we regularly run friendly online workshops around front-end and design. We have a couple of workshops coming up soon, and we thought that, you know, y

Tools , Workshops , Smashing

Nov 17 2025

Paul Boag - The Design Leader Dilemma

Many design leaders find themselves in an impossible situation. On one side, senior management have read articles trumpeting the incredible ROI of user experience design. McKinsey tells us that desi

workflow , Tools , Web Design

Nov 17 2025

Juan Diego Rodríguez - Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault

Front-end development seemed simpler in the early 2000s, didn’t it? The standard website consisted mostly of static pages made of HTML and CSS seasoned with a pinch of JavaScript and jQuery. I mean,

Frameworks , Opinion Column , Javascript

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Nov 18 2025

Drew McLellan - Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Netlify who are a diverse group of incredible talent from all over the world and offers a platform for web developers that multiplies

Smashing Podcast , Smashing Events , Smashing Books