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🧑‍💻 5 Tools to Make Your Dev Life Easier in 2024 (Plus, Master Box Shadows!)

August 7, 2024

Hey 👋

Another week, another dose of design & dev goodness! This week's newsletter is packed with tips and tools to help you level up your skills in just 5 minutes.

Here's a sneak peek:

🧰 Essential Dev Tools for 2024
✨ Mastering Box Shadows
➕ UI Principles for B2B

Enjoy 🤗 - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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💻 Dev

5 Tools Every Developer Should Use in 2024

Many developers prefer building things from scratch, but sometimes the workload is so huge that using these tools can make the job easier.

So you think you know box shadows?

A box shadow is a kind of drop shadow. And a drop shadow is a kind of image filter which is particularly popular in graphic design due to how versatile it is at adding an approximation of depth to composition.

Have It All: External, Styleable, & Scalable SVG

Long story short, the svg use element now offers a nice means of referencing SVG symbols, whether they're in the same page or in an external file.

Open Source visibility hacks — No icky marketing needed

Whatever your reason for building Open Source (whether it be pumping up your skills, solving a problem you can’t shake, contributing to something great and promising, or for GitHub stars), you need users.

💭 Fun Fact

Pre-SVG Roots (1990s) -Before SVGs, there were several vector graphic languages vying for dominance on the web, like VML (Vector Markup Language) from Microsoft and PGML (Precision Graphics Markup Language) from Adobe. This competition paved the way for the need for a standardised format.

🔘 Design + UX

Dribbbles improved search

This is the latest in a series of posts explaining the decisions we make that affect our users, as well as the results of those decisions (positive or negative).

Other UI principles for B2B web apps

Creating user interfaces for expert users, such as engineers or administrators, often requires additional principles on top of universal ones.

🗓️ Upcoming Events

Check out these events

🔘 Hatch Conference

Remote • Berlin

The event where experienced UX & Design Professionals in Europe meet to learn, get inspired and connect. 4-6 September

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💻 Intersection

Turin, Italy

Where Design meets Development. This year, we’re reimagining the way professionals engage with technology, under the theme “Revolutionizing User Interfaces: The Dawn of Intuitive Digital Worlds“. 3-4 October

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🟨 UtahJS Conference

Sandy, UT

The 2024 UtahJS Conference will be a 1-day conference on Friday, September 13

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🧠 UX Y'all Conference

North Carolina

Our local conference encourages our community to share their knowledge and experience. Lightning talks, keynote talks, local speakers and workshops. September 19-20

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