Here's this week’s round-up: a mix of design discoveries, dev experiments, and a sprinkle of career advice. Out of the lot, my personal pick is "You don't need to manipulate to influence users' decisions" — a timely reminder that good design is honest as well as effective.
So, whether you’re curious about left-handed UX or stepped gradients, there’s plenty to get stuck into.
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It’s time we stopped blaming the tools and started asking better questions about how we work, what we value, and how we make space for innovation again.
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions.
When I tried setting my browser font-size preferences, I found it broke more sites than it improved, and I quickly moved back to the default. So what went wrong, and how can we fix it?
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