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From CSS wizardry to quietly timeless design, this issue is packed with goodies.
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🧠 UX
How To Notify Users Without Being Spammy
Writing engaging lifecycle emails is tough, considering an average person gets 121 emails/day. Make sure you respect people's inboxes with this technique!
🏎️ Performance
Stretching Google's prefetching
Making Chrome play a 19 MB video while "offline"
The “Zeigarnik Effect” Explains Why Unfinished Tasks Stick in Your Mind 🤔
Psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik discovered that people remember incomplete or interrupted tasks better than completed ones—a principle often used in UX to encourage users to finish onboarding or forms.
🧑💻 Dev
How many cells and rows depend on the frets and strings attributes we defined in the HTML.
Use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation
This post explains the reasons behind the design of these properties and some brief details to get you started with them.
DOOM...rendered using a single DIV and CSS!
For clarity, this is not DOOM rebuilt in CSS...yet.
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Stripe + Jony Ive - An Interview
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How to Design Timeless Products
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