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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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