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🧠 How UX Shaped COVID, Airbnb’s Redesign & SVG-to-CSS Tool

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Short and sweet newsletter this week!

Packed with some nice design reads and cool CSS tools...

Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.


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🧠 UX

Coronavirus Dashboard UX: How Design Impacts Your Perception

Dashboard design can greatly influence our perception of the coronavirus. Discover the strategies to make your visuals communicate the right information.

Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework

Learn how to create and implement a UX strategy framework that shapes work and drives real business value.

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🎨 Design

“It was a bit nuts” – Teo Connor on designing the new Airbnb app

About an hour after CEO Brian Chesky unveiled the new Airbnb app to the world, Teo Connor, the company’s VP of design, takes a moment to reflect on the 18-month project.

📋 CSS

SVG to CSS Shape Converter

This tool will convert an SVG shape created with path d="..." into a CSS Shape.

Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel

I was reflecting on what I learned about CSS Carousels recently. There’s a lot they can do right out of the box (and some things they don’t) once you define a scroll container and hide the overflow.

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?


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