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⏰ Time-Travelling JavaScript, Smart CSS Cursors & Product Team Tips

April 16, 2025

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Hey 👋

This week’s newsletter is packed with goodies, and the CSS section might just be the biggest one we’ve ever seen 😂 From tackling Agile UX challenges to exploring accessibility, 3D JavaScript tricks, and a deep dive into product team pitfalls, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into.

Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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🧠 UX

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Dealing with the challenges of the agile methodology in UX design

Imagine spending hours planning a group trip and everyone backs out at the last minute — that’s what waterfall management is like.

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Accessibility. It’s a shared responsibility.

Accessibility matters because everyone benefits from the products and services we build, regardless of ability.

The First Use of the @ Symbol Was in 1536 📧

The @ symbol, now synonymous with email, was first used in 1536 by a Florentine merchant to indicate units of wine. It wasn’t until 1971 that it became part of email addresses, thanks to Ray Tomlinson.

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🧑‍💻 Dev

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Time Travel with JavaScript

Using a powerful animation trick to create a 3D split flap display

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How to Open and Close HTML Dialogs

Despite the popularity of modals on the web, the native

element has unfortunately had a long and troubled history in HTML.


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7 Product Team Pitfalls You Should Avoid

After talking with thousands of product teams, Growth Design have discovered seven wide-spread pitfalls that slow teams down and impact product quality.

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📋 CSS

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Default styles for h1 elements are changing

Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings.

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Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

The cursor is a staple of the desktop interface but is scarcely touched by websites. This is for good reason.

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Item Flow - A new unified concept for layout

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want.

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Using currentColor in 2025

Gotta give props to currentColor. It’s a keyword in CSS that is the OG variable. It wasn’t always there, but it was relatively usable in browsers by, say, 2010.

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Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds

Exploring one of these merit-producing features that has been severely undersold — Tailwind’s @apply feature.

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