Whether you are currently basking in the golden glow of a well-earned August vacation or diving deep into the intensive planning phase of a new quarterly project, the digital environment you occupy matters. For the past fifteen years, Smashing Magazine has championed the idea that our desktop and mobile interfaces should be as inspiring as […]
Beyond Purple Gradients: How Design-Focused AI Skills Are Fixing the Aesthetics of Generated Code
The current generation of AI coding agents is undeniably proficient at writing functional code. Ask Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex to spin up a full-stack application, and within seconds, you will have a working prototype complete with API routes, database schemas, and reactive state management. Yet, there has always been a glaring Achilles’ heel to […]