This week’s Unicorn Club is full of fantastic resources to dive into. From creating seamless UX and understanding the proximity principle to exploring the emotional side of design and the origin of the hamburger icon, there’s plenty to get stuck into.
You’ll also find updates on Tailwind CSS 4.0, new tricks for attr(), essential CSS snippets, and performance insights like Brotli compression and faster LCP times.
And don’t miss details on some brilliant upcoming UX and accessibility events!
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UI design is significantly influenced by the Gestalt principles of grouping, a fundamental set of laws and guidelines many designers rely on to create effective interfaces.
By embracing sensitivity over logic, designers can learn from old masters and create new solutions that reconnect to us being humans.
The Origin of the Hamburger Icon 🍔
That familiar three-line icon we call the "hamburger" was created by Norm Cox in 1981 for the Xerox Star workstation. His goal? To represent a menu of options while keeping the design minimalist. Surprisingly, he didn’t know it would become a global UI icon decades later!
Laying the foundation for super-fast performance with Signed Exchanges (part 1 of 8). Paweł has created a series about SXG, over the coming weeks we'll be featuring each part of this series.
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