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Hey 👋
This week’s collection is all about questioning the signals and shortcuts we trust in our daily work. From misleading checkmarks to overlooked browser tools, there’s a reminder in here: a familiar UI isn’t always a safe one. Let’s build with a bit more intent.
Hope you have a good one - Adam at Unicorn Club 🦄
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🏗️ Build
Make better interfaces.
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A sharp case study on how a familiar “success” UI signal led users into costly mistakes, exposing the gap between truthful feedback and visual conventions.
Why it matters: Seemingly small visual cues in high-stress flows (travel, payments) can mislead users and incur real-world penalties. Adopt this week: Audit critical confirmation or state feedback. Swap misleading “all good” icons for honest, actionable system state indicators.
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Google’s Gemini 3 brings wireframing, design system scaffolding, “UI to code,” accessibility audit, and image gen features into a single prompt-driven AI tool.
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Tips for speedy UI debugging: console timers, DOM breakpoints, and miniature function monitors most ignore.
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NotebookLM now synthesises web, Sheets, Drive files, and more auto-building cited research summaries directly in your workspace with sources at hand.
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🧩 Shape
Shared foundations across teams.
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Itamar Gilad’s 2×2 exposes how centralised or empowered, gut-driven or evidence-guided teams actually operate and which traps they’ll hit as they grow.
Why it matters: Teams stuck in the wrong discovery model stall, clash, or burn out. Moving one square prompts faster, safer learning. Adopt this week: Map your team or org on this grid, and talk through what needs to shift. One big, visible change beats constant process tweaks.
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Judgment isn’t just process: real discovery means collective learning, safety to be wrong, and cross-disciplinary exposure.
Why it matters: AI amplifies both productivity and bad habits, real product value comes from teams that examine their own assumptions and ways of working. Try this: In your next discovery or retro, add one reflection: “What did we learn about our own (or each other's) thinking this sprint/release?” Write it down.
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🚀 Ship
Release, measure, iterate.
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XPath, CSSOM, XSLT: classic browser APIs are still a secret weapon for tests, automation and robust, framework-proof element targeting..
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See micro-interactions and animation flows from top apps to clarify those crucial “nearly invisible” interface details no static UI kit will capture for you.
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🎲 Also worth a look
A few extras we've found.
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A clarion call for real design authenticity—why product, web, and process design all look alike, and how to gently rebel and reclaim taste in your portfolio and UI work.
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Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans offers zero-fluff, inside-out perspective on promotions, leadership, and the “hidden” IC vs. manager decisions nobody prepares you for.
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