Practice, a book on design and craft by Figma
Practice explores what it takes to master craft: patience, precision, and a willingness to push boundaries while respecting the fundamentals.
Introducing Figma Make: A new way to test, edit, and prompt designs
Introducing Figma Make, a new prompt-to-app capability to help you quickly explore, iterate, and refine.
Express yourself with Figma Draw
Figma Draw pairs faster, simpler vector editing with powerful tools for visual expression—so designers of all stripes can bring their vision to life without breaking focus.
24 artifacts that define craft
Members of the design community share an artifact that embodies craft—something that speaks to their understanding of what it means to make with intention.
Figma Buzz is where design and marketing teams co-create
With Figma Buzz, brand designers and marketers have a shared space to build beautiful, on-brand assets at scale.
Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever thought about how the limitations of early cartoon animations might relate to web design today? From looping backgrounds to minimal frame changes, these retro animation techniques have surprising parallels to modern CSS. In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows how he applied these principles to Emmy-winning composer Mike
Our top product updates from Sessions 2025
We announced the ability to manage multiple payment providers from within Stripe, two new extensibility primitives, support for turnkey consumer issuing programs, new money management capabilities, and a lot more.
Introducing the Flags Explorer, first-party integrations, and updates to the Flags SDK
Introducing first-party integrations, the Flags Explorer, and improvements to the Flags SDK to improve feature flag workflow on Vercel.
Function calling using LLMs
While LLMs excel at generating cogent text based on their training data, they may also need to interact with external systems. Function calling allows them to construct such calls. The LLM does not execute these calls directly, instead it creates a data structure that describes the call, passing that to a separate program for execution and further processing. The LLM's prompt includes details abou
Dos and don’ts when sunsetting open source projects
Three maintainers share their tips for gracefully sunsetting open source projects.
RSC for Astro Developers
Islands, but make it fractal.
Masonry In CSS: Should Grid Evolve Or Stand Aside For A New Module? — Smashing Magazine
There were duelling proposals floating around for adding support for masonry-style layouts in CSS. In one corner is a proposal that extends the existing CSS Grid specification. In the other corner is a second proposal that sets up masonry as a standalone module. Well, not until recently. Now, there are three proposals with Apple WebKit’s “Item Flow” as the third option. The first two sides make st
Join the Vercel AI Accelerator
A six-week program to help you scale your AI company offering over $4M in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms
Scaling with safety: Cloudflare's approach to global service health metrics and software releases
Learn how Cloudflare tackles the challenge of scaling global service health metrics to safely release new software across our global network.
How Headspace built an AI companion that fosters trust and transparency
Creating an AI-powered feature for mental health poses myriad challenges. Here, the product and brand teams talk through how they built Ebb with care and sensitivity.
How Polaroid is building its next era of innovation
Once on the brink of extinction, the company behind the beloved instant camera is reaching a new generation of users with a new approach to design, development, and branding.
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Events, exclusive discounts, and a new security challenge
This May marks the fifth annual Maintainer Month, and there are lots of treats in store: new badges, special discounts, events with experts, and more.
Enhancing the Python ecosystem with type checking and free threading
Meta and Quansight have improved key libraries in the Python Ecosystem. There is plenty more to do and we invite the community to help with our efforts. We’ll look at two key efforts in Python’s packaging ecosystem to make packages faster and easier to use: 🚀 Unlock performance wins for developers through free-threaded Python – […]
How To Launch Big Complex Projects — Smashing Magazine
When was the last time your project wrapped up smoothly — no delays, no surprises, no last-minute compromises? In reality, most UX projects drift as timelines slip, budgets stretch, and features morph. How do we get better at navigating the chaos? An upcoming part of How To Measure UX and Design Impact by yours truly.
CSS shape() Commands
The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both Chromium and WebKit browsers. It's a way of drawing complex shapes when clipping elements with the clip-path property.
Quick Hit #46
Straight from the W3C Technical Architecture Group: "e see an urgency to have a strict timeline for the removal of third-party cookies."
Copilot ask, edit, and agent modes: What they do and when to use them
An introduction to the three distinct modes of GitHub Copilot and a practical guide for integrating them effectively into your workflow.
Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
Functional HTML
Tags on both sides.
WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation — Smashing Magazine
WCAG is evolving. Since 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have defined accessibility in binary terms: either a success criterion is met or not. But real user experience is rarely that simple. WCAG 3.0 rethinks the model — prioritizing usability over compliance and shifting the focus toward the quality of access rather than the mere presence of features. Could this be the start of a ne
How v0 is building SEO-optimized sites by default
Understanding how v0 ensures everything you create is seo-ready by default, without changing how you build
Doom GPU Flame Graphs
Thirteen new MCP servers from Cloudflare you can use today
You can now connect to Cloudflare's first publicly available remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from any MCP client that supports remote servers.
MCP Demo Day: How 10 leading AI companies built MCP servers on Cloudflare
We’re teaming up with Anthropic, Asana, Atlassian, Block, Intercom, Linear, PayPal, Sentry, Stripe, and Webflow to launch new remote MCP servers, built on Cloudflare, to enable Claude users to manage
State of Devs: A Survey for Every Developer
The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more.
How Figma helps you learn Figma
Want to learn Figma but not sure where to start? Meet our Product Education team—your guides, cheerleaders, and fellow learners helping you discover the joy of creating.
The AI-powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration
Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Let’s dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot.
Taking the plunge: The engineering journey of building a subsea cable
Meta develops infrastructure all across the globe to transport information and content for the billions of people using our services around the world. At the core of this infrastructure are aggregation points – like data centers – and the digital cables that connect them. Subsea cables – the unseen digital highways of the internet – […]
Some thoughts on how control over web content works
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025
On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we are going to do about it.
Bringing streamable HTTP transport and Python language support to MCP servers
We're continuing to make it easier for developers to bring their services into the AI ecosystem with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with two new updates: support for the new Streamable HTTP transport in remote MCP servers and the ability to deploy Python-based MCP servers using FastAPI-MCP.
Revisiting Image Maps
Let’s run through a quick refresher. Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements.
PostgreSQL Trusted Extensions for Beginners
Especially beginners are often having problems concerning the concept of Trusted Extensions. Let's fix that!
From MCP to multi-agents: The top 10 new open source AI projects on GitHub right now and why they matter
Get insights on the latest trends from GitHub experts while catching up on these exciting new projects.
Make Every Day Count (May 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Radar now protects ACH and SEPA payments
To help you adapt your fraud prevention strategy to the changing set of payment method preferences, we’re extending Radar’s fraud protection to cover ACH and SEPA payments.
Open Up With Brad Frost, Episode 2
Brad Frost is running this new little podcast called Open Up. Folks write in with questions about the "other" side of web design and front-end development —
Cutting through the noise: How to prioritize Dependabot alerts
Learn how to effectively prioritize alerts using severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), and repository properties, so you can focus on the most critical vulnerabilities first.
Introducing AutoPatchBench: A Benchmark for AI-Powered Security Fixes
We are introducing AutoPatchBench, a benchmark for the automated repair of vulnerabilities identified through fuzzing. By providing a standardized benchmark, AutoPatchBench enables researchers and practitioners to objectively evaluate and compare the effectiveness of various AI program repair systems. This initiative facilitates the development of more robust security solutions, and also encourage
Building Private Processing for AI tools on WhatsApp
We are inspired by the possibilities of AI to help people be more creative, productive, and stay closely connected on WhatsApp, so we set out to build a new technology that allows our users around the world to use AI in a privacy-preserving way. We’re sharing an early look into Private Processing, an optional capability […]
How To Turn Your Figma Designs Into Live Apps With Anima Playground — Smashing Magazine
As designers, it’s important to be able to transform visual ideas into concepts within minutes and into fully functional products within hours. Well, today we’re bringing you closer to AnimaApp, an app designed to make your life easier — whether you’re a designer, developer, product team member or entrepreneur.
How the April 28, 2025, power outage in Portugal and Spain impacted Internet traffic and connectivity
A massive power outage struck significant portions of Portugal and Spain at 10:34 UTC on April 28, disrupting everyday activities and services. The power outage also caused Internet outages across both countries, impacting Internet traffic and connectivity.
GitHub for Beginners: Building a REST API with Copilot
See how you can use GitHub Copilot to build an API.
How Meta understands data at scale
Managing and understanding large-scale data ecosystems is a significant challenge for many organizations, requiring innovative solutions to efficiently safeguard user data. Meta’s vast and diverse systems make it particularly challenging to comprehend its structure, meaning, and context at scale. To address these challenges, we made substantial investments in advanced data understanding technologi
UX And Design Files Organization Template — Smashing Magazine
Lost in a sea of UX files, docs, PDFs, and scattered decisions across Slack, Dropbox, Notion, and Figma? We talk a lot about organizing Figma, but what about a sensible folder structure for all UX assets? Let’s fix that. Kindly powered by [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com).
Targeted by 20.5 million DDoS attacks, up 358% year-over-year: Cloudflare’s 2025 Q1 DDoS Threat Report
DDoS attacks are surging. In 2025 Q1, Cloudflare blocked +20M attacks (a 358% YoY spike) along with 5.6 Tbps and 4.8 Bpps record-breaking attacks. And that's just the beginning. Read more in our latest DDoS Threat Report.
How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows
The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI.
What Does "use client" Do?
Two worlds, two doors.
Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native (2025) - Shopify
We built a framework that transforms WebViews in the Shopify app to feel native and solve performance and integration challenges without rebuilding for mobile.
“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio — Smashing Magazine
It starts with good intentions — a quick fix here, a shiny feature there — and suddenly, your product portfolio’s bursting at the seams. In this guide, Talke Hoppmann-Walton walks you through a “Product Kondo” exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers.
Figma's 2025 AI report: Perspectives from designers and developers
Figma’s AI report tells us how designers and developers are navigating the changing landscape.
A guide to deciding what AI model to use in GitHub Copilot
What to look for with each model and how to test them in your workflows—with tips, tricks, and pointers.
Boosting Up Your Creativity Without Endless Reference Scrolling — Smashing Magazine
While it is clear that creativity is driven by both the left and right hemispheres, an important question remains: how can we boost creativity while keeping the process enjoyable? It may not be obvious, but non-design-related activities can, in fact, be an opportunity to enhance creativity.
Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python
