🕸️ Dive into Web Components, Semantic Design and more
Tags: webdev, css, ux, design
Published: 2023-08-11 10:18:39


**Hey everyone**  👋 Here's what we have this week:

🖥️ Accordions on Desktop: When and How to Use  
🟢 Open-source monitoring service  
🎨 Design systems

Enjoy this week's edition ✌️ - Adam at Unicorn Club.  
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### 🧑‍💻 Code

[**If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?**](https://daverupert.com/2023/07/why-not-webcomponents/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Web Components have a marketing problem. I have a lot of opinions about this, so many that I joined the Web Components Community Group.

[**Open-source monitoring service**](https://www.openstatus.dev/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

OpenStatus is an open source alternative to your current monitoring service with a beautiful status page.

### 👁️ A11Y

[**Do we need WCAG 3 (now)?**](https://yatil.net/blog/do-we-need-wcag-3-now?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Earlier this week, W3C/WAI announced that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now at the last hurdle before becoming a standard.

### 🎨 Design

[**The future of design systems is semantic**](https://www.figma.com/blog/the-future-of-design-systems-is-semantic/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Variables, one of Figma’s newest features, help you streamline designs and connect more closely to code, but what do they tell us about larger shifts in the industry?

### 🧠 UX

[**Rethinking Window Management**](https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Window management is one of those areas I’m fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody’s fully cracked it yet.

[**Just normal web things.**](https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

We've let ourselves get away from building websites that can do normal web things.

[**Accordions on Desktop: When and How to Use**](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/accordions-on-desktop/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

While accordions can simplify long content pages and minimize scrolling, they diminish content visibility and increase interaction cost

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