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🎨 14 Proven UI Tips, Logic-First Design & CSS Color Upgrades

June 25, 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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Hey 👋

There’s plenty worth a look in this week’s issue. 

Curious how UX benchmarking really compares to success metrics? Or why Verdana still crops up everywhere, decades after its launch? I’ve gathered practical CSS tips (including new ways to work with colour and shapes), a handful of design insights, and some tools to help you ship better code. 

Have a scroll, you’ll likely spot something useful.

Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.

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Verdana, created by Matthew Carter in 1996, was specifically engineered for clarity on early computer monitors. Its wide spacing and simple shapes made it a web favorite long before retina screens existed.

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🧑‍💻 CSS
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Color Everything in CSS

I didn’t know a lot about color in CSS (I still used rgb(), which apparently isn’t what cool people do anymore)

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Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape

We recently got the new shape() function for clip-path which is a game changer for creating CSS shape.

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An engineer's guide to vibe design (with prompts)

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