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✨ UX Psychology Insights + New CSS You Can Use Right Now

November 13, 2024

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We're packed with some amazing resources this week. Dive into performance on your sites, UX ideas and CSS you should be using in 2024.

Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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🧑‍💻 Dev

Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website

Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture.

🎨 UX + UI

The Intersection of Design and Psychology - Crafting User-Centered Experiences

Design isn't just about making things aesthetically pleasing; it's about creating meaningful and intuitive experiences for users.

Mental Models and Labels: A Guide for UX Beginners

Beginners in the UX world will quickly face one constant dilemma: bridging the gap between their own labels and mental models and those of users.

Website Redesign To Increase User Engagement

Focusing on enhancing user engagement through a new information architecture that integrates dynamic visual elements

🔗 Fun Fact

The First Hyperlink Was Conceptual - Long before the first website went live, the concept of hyperlinks existed. Ted Nelson, in his 1965 paper, envisioned a system called "Xanadu" where documents could be linked together, forming a vast interconnected network of information.

🖋️ CSS

New CSS that can actually be used in 2024

Multiple innovations have been released and are now supported in all modern browsers, and some of them fundamentally change how to make websites.

Your CSS reset should be layered

Cascade layers recently reached the completely arbitrary “baseline widely available” milestone, which means they have been available across all modern browsers for more than 30 months now.

💼 Business

How to do launch weeks for developer tools, startups, and small teams

A “launch week” is a tested promotional strategy for early stage startups (especially for developer tools with small teams!) They are effective at reaching your target customers from multiple channels

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December 13 & 16 - Remote • Berlin

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👥 axe-con

February 25-27 - Remote

Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference. A unique conference experience focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.

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🧠 UX Design & Digital Innovation Leadership

16 November - London

The DDX Conference welcomes anyone eager to learn more about UX and Innovation. It's great for designers and entrepreneurs, and anyone excited about user experience or innovation.

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🟩 Vue.js Nation Conference

January 2025 - Remote

We take pride in once again delivering quality, accessible education to the global community.

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