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This week’s Unicorn Club is bursting at the seams with value—because wow, the community is really stepping up their content game for 2025!
From must-know UX strategies to mini front-end projects sure to sharpen your skills, there’s something here for everyone. Plus, we’ve packed in tips, tools, and of web design history (hint: it’s all about those iconic blue links).
Make a fresh brew ☕️ and dive into this action-packed edition—you don’t want to miss a thing.
Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.
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🧠 UX
To create more accessible outcomes, we need better design tools
Visual design tools can bias designers into less accessible results. So how can these tools help improve these outcomes?
Competitive advantage comes from seeing what nobody else can
A company operates in an ecosystem of opportunities, where competitive advantage can be won by “seeing what others are not even aware of.”
Best Practices for Usable and Efficient Data table in Applications
Tips and Insights to Create Intuitive, User-Centered Data Tables.
Designing for the Unexpected: Strategies for Error Prevention in UX Design
Predict what mistakes your visitors might make, and prevent them before they turn into problems.
🧑💻 Front-end
Top 5 Frontend Mini Projects You Must Try
If you're diving into frontend development, building these mini-projects is one of the best ways to practice your skills and enhance your portfolio.
Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025
Not all of this is like absolutely brand spanking new just-dropped-in-2024 stuff. Some of it is, but generally it’s relatively new stuff that’s all pretty great.
Solo Development: Learning To Let Go Of Perfection
There’s a lot of freedom in working alone, and that freedom can be inspiring, but it can also become a debilitating hindrance to productivity and progress.
Sharing a Variable Across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Set a variable in Pug, then create an inline script which sets that variable for using in JavaScript and use setProperty to pass it to CSS.
Why Blue is the Most Popular Link Color 🔵
Ever notice links are almost always blue? The tradition dates back to early web browsers because blue contrasted well with the gray backgrounds of 90s interfaces. Plus, blue hues are highly visible even for individuals with red-green color blindness. A functional choice that became iconic!
🏎️ Performance
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
Chrome and Safari have implemented a “Tight Mode” that constrains which resources are loaded and in what order, but they each take drastically different approaches to it.
How To Interpret Data From Google's Chrome UX Report
Google CrUX data impacts search rankings, but it's not always clear how to read the data. Data is reported in different tools covering different time periods and website URLs.
🎨 Design
Three Questions I Ask Before Starting a New Design Project
Whether it’s an entirely new startup or just another initiative in an already productized tool, I always ask three core questions that help better draw the picture before I plunge into the work.
Apple Announced the MacBook Pro 19 Years Ago Today
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Pro 19 years ago today at the 2006 Macworld Conference & Expo.
Design and (...), a look at design leaders taking on more responsibilities
For decades, design has been chasing to reach vertical parity with other organizations: Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer, and now Chief Design Officer (CDO).
🛠️ Resources + Tools
This collection of AI tools will be very helpful for all product designers.
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