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I hope your week’s off to a great start! This week, I’ve rounded up some brilliant design inspiration, handy CSS tricks, and thought-provoking UX reads to give you fresh ideas and practical insights. Whether you're tackling tricky layouts or rethinking user flows, there’s plenty here to get stuck into.
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You can make stripes with CSS gradients pretty easily. It’s that classic thing where you don’t fade a color from one to another, you just switch colors by having two colors share the same “color stop”.
Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!
The Hidden Cost of Infinite Scrolling 📜
While infinite scrolling can keep users engaged, it can also lead to "content fatigue." Research shows that users often feel overwhelmed or lose focus when there’s no clear stopping point, making pagination or "load more" buttons a better choice for some interfaces.
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Design isn’t just a discipline or skillset—it’s a way of working. Here, we explore the evolution of design through the decades, the promise of design as a differentiator, and why non-designers deserve a seat at the table.
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We encourage people to have fewer 1:1s. They should be far enough away that waiting until your next one would feel totally wrong.
Also, rethink how you use them. If it's just to update your manager, something is wrong. This should happen transparently, so everyone has the context.
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