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I hope your week’s off to a great start! This week, I’ve rounded up some brilliant design inspiration, handy CSS tricks, and thought-provoking UX reads to give you fresh ideas and practical insights. Whether you're tackling tricky layouts or rethinking user flows, there’s plenty here to get stuck into.
Enjoy 🦄 - Adam at Unicorn Club.
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CSS Bursts with Conic Gradients
You can make stripes with CSS gradients pretty easily. It’s that classic thing where you don’t fade a color from one to another, you just switch colors by having two colors share the same “color stop”.
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!
The Hidden Cost of Infinite Scrolling 📜
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