Investing

How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.

Dec 08, 2025 • 5 min read

Banking

Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners

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. Victo...

Dec 05, 2025 • 5 min read

Investing

The Death of Ownership in Web Design — and Everything Else

Ownership is quietly disappearing from every part of our digital lives. From Photoshop to Spotify, Kindle to Netflix, we’re trading permanence for con...

Dec 05, 2025 • 5 min read

Fintech

Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

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...

Dec 02, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)

We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s...

Nov 25, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation

Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work.

Nov 18, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers

Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own p...

Nov 14, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

Effectively Monitoring Web Performance

There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But ev...

Nov 11, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot

With component variants, design systems become more flexible, letting you reuse the same component while adapting its look or state with ease. In this...

Nov 04, 2025 • 5 min read

Investing

Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)

Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations sit in the middle. They’re subtle, slow-moving details that add at...

Oct 22, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

AI In UX: Achieve More With Less

A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons l...

Oct 17, 2025 • 5 min read

Economy

The Grayscale Problem

From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital...

Oct 13, 2025 • 5 min read

Insurance

Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With `<symbol>`, `<use>`, And CSS Media Queries

SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds...

Oct 06, 2025 • 5 min read

Investing

Best Practices for Building the AI Development Platform in Government 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor  The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for...

Oct 28, 2021 • 5 min read

Insurance

Advance Trustworthy AI and ML, and Identify Best Practices for Scaling AI 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of En...

Oct 28, 2021 • 5 min read

Insurance

Promise and Perils of Using AI for Hiring: Guard Against Data Bias 

By AI Trends Staff   While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a r...

Oct 28, 2021 • 5 min read

Insurance

Predictive Maintenance Proving Out as Successful AI Use Case 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   More companies are successfully exploiting predictive maintenance systems that combine AI and IoT sensors to co...

Oct 28, 2021 • 5 min read

Insurance

Novelty In The Game Of Go Provides Bright Insights For AI And Autonomous Vehicles 

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider   We already expect that humans to exhibit flashes of brilliance. It might not happen all the time, but the act...

Oct 28, 2021 • 5 min read

Insurance

Digital Natives Seen Having Advantages as Part of Government AI Engineering Teams 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   AI is more accessible to young people in the workforce who grew up as ‘digital natives’ with Alexa and self-dri...

Oct 21, 2021 • 5 min read