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🌍 How Global Teams Win at UX (& the CSS Subgrid Power Move)

July 23, 2025

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Welcome to this week’s Unicorn Club. If you’re as fascinated by those subtle CSS discoveries as I am, don’t miss Chris Coyier’s journey into animation-composition and stacked transforms. It’s a good reminder that sometimes the ‘aha’ moments come from just digging into how things actually work, not just following docs.

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🧑‍💻 CSS

A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout

Subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article.

What is popover=hint?

You may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133. But what exactly does it do?

Stacked Transforms

If we add animation-composition: add; it adds what is going on in the @keyframes to what is already there.

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A Friendly Introduction to SVG

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