📚 Stripe's Picks - Top Design Books for Non-Designers
Tags: webdev, css, design, ui
Published: 2023-10-26 13:11:31

**Hey everyone** ✌️ Here's a quick look at this week's newsletter:

📊 Why Designers are the Drivers of PLG  
🐠 Crafting an Aquatic Life with only CSS and HTML  
💡 Switch Easily Between Light and Dark Mode

Enjoy this weeks edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club.  

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### 🎨 Design

[**Design books for non-designers**](https://www.stripe.press/recommended/design-books.html?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Design books for non-designers, recommended by the Stripe Design Team

[**Game+Logo**](https://www.logodesignlove.com/video-game-logos?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

A nostalgic collection of logos from decades past in the video game industry.

[**The future of PLG is Design**](https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/the-future-of-plg-is-design?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Why design (and designers) will be drivers of this customer-centric motion

### 🖌️ CSS

[**Created a realistic moon using just CSS**](https://dev.to/freakyspeedster/created-a-realistic-moon-using-just-css-38c5?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Let's dive right into the step by step process.

[**Pure CSS low-poly: Aquatic Life**](https://mackfitz.hashnode.dev/pure-css-low-poly-aquatic-life?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Fish, octopuses, starfish and unnamed horrors of the deep - created, against all sense and logic, with just CSS and HTML

[**CSS Findings From Photoshop Web Version**](https://ishadeed.com/article/photoshop-web-css/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

A few weeks ago, Adobe released a web version of Photoshop that is built with the web technologies like WebAssembly, web components, P3 colors, and a lot more.

[**The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with light-dark()**](https://www.bram.us/2023/10/09/the-future-of-css-easy-light-dark-mode-color-switching-with-light-dark/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

To change a color based on whether Light Mode or Dark Mode used, you’d typically use a prefers-color-scheme Media Query.

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