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πŸ€– Jony Ive + OpenAI, Create Calmer UX & Is Paper the New Figma?

May 28, 2025

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Hey πŸ‘‹

Hope you’ve had a properly productive week. Or at the very least, found time for the odd coffee that didn’t go cold on your desk. 

This week’s newsletter is packed with fresh links, handy dev tools, and a few insights that’ll hopefully inspire your next session.

Enjoy πŸ¦„ - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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🧠 UX

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Designing Calm: UX Principles for Reducing Users’ Anxiety

Although we often speak of frictionless design in terms of usability, the truth is that some of the most damaging friction is psychological.

Users Only Read About 20% of Webpage Text πŸ§‘β€πŸ«

Eye-tracking studies by the Nielsen Norman Group found that, on average, people read only about 20% of the text on a typical web page. This highlights the importance of concise copy and clear visual hierarchy.

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πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» CSS + HTML

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Styling the icon for HTML date and time types

There are several HTML input tags with types for dates and times.

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Neon Glass Context Menu

Codepen of a really cool effect you can learn some new techniques from!

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Move Modal in on a… shape()

Got an old modal design? Now might be the time to upgrade it a bit, as we can do both open & close animations now.

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Most interesting tech news & insights

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πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» More Dev Bits

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A Brief History of JavaScript

This year, JavaScript turns 30. Within three decades, JavaScript went from being a weird little scripting language developed in 10 days to the world's most popular programming language.

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You can style alt text like any other text

CSS gives us plenty of opportunities to add finer details when we want them. One of those finer details is making the experience of an image not loading a little better.

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🎨 Product + Design

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Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away

A great designer can focus intently on the smallest of details while still keeping the big picture in view, perceiving both the thing itself and its surrounding context.

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Sam Altman & Jony Ive introduce io

As io merges with OpenAI, Jony and LoveFrom will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI and io.

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Goodbye Figma, Paper is Coming

A chat with Stephen Haney, CEO of Paper, about his vision for the next generation of design tools.

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