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

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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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🧠 UX

UX Benchmarking vs. UX Success Metrics

UX benchmarking allows us to track the long-term changes in the overall user experience of our product, while UX success metrics help us assess the short-term impact of a specific project or feature launch.

🔤 The World’s Most Popular Font Was Designed for Legibility on Low-Res Screens

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

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)

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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