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🔥 Stripe + Jony Ive Fireside, UI After LLMs & DOOM in CSS

May 14, 2025

What makes good digital products work.

A weekly read for people who design, build, lead, and improve digital products. The decisions, details, and trade-offs behind better product work.

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From CSS wizardry to quietly timeless design, this issue is packed with goodies.

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🧠 UX
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How To Notify Users Without Being Spammy

Writing engaging lifecycle emails is tough, considering an average person gets 121 emails/day. Make sure you respect people's inboxes with this technique!

🏎️ Performance
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Stretching Google's prefetching

Making Chrome play a 19 MB video while "offline"

The “Zeigarnik Effect” Explains Why Unfinished Tasks Stick in Your Mind 🤔

Psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik discovered that people remember incomplete or interrupted tasks better than completed ones—a principle often used in UX to encourage users to finish onboarding or forms.

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🧑‍💻 Dev
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Guitar Chords in CSS

How many cells and rows depend on the frets and strings attributes we defined in the HTML.

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Use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation

This post explains the reasons behind the design of these properties and some brief details to get you started with them.

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DOOM...*rendered* using a single DIV and CSS!

For clarity, this is not DOOM rebuilt in CSS...yet.

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TLDR; Keep up with Tech in 5 minutes

Get the most important tech, science, & coding news in a free daily email. Read by +1,250,000 software engineers and tech workers.

♿️ A11Y
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95% of homepages are inaccessible

Though it seems web accessibility is a priority in product development, almost 95% of home pages include WCAG conformance failures

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🎨 Product + Design
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Stripe + Jony Ive - An Interview

Designer Jony Ive joins Stripe CEO Patrick Collison for a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions.

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How to Design Timeless Products

Explore the quietly powerful philosophy behind building slowly, intentionally, and thoughtfully.

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Post-Chat UI

How LLMs are making traditional apps feel broken.

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