Reddit's Misstep - How NOT to Promote Your App
Tags: ux, css, webdev, beginners
Published: 2023-09-14 10:29:12

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

🎨 Android Brand's New Look: Embracing the Modern Era
💫 Small Code Changes, Big Experience Improvements  
💌 Email Development Woes: Why Does It Have to Suck?

Enjoy this weeks edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club. 

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### 🎨 Design

[**A new modern look for the Android brand**](https://blog.google/products/android/modern-look/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Over the past decade, the Android brand has undergone several updates to modernize its look and feel and evolve with the needs of our community.

[**8 micro tips for remarkably better typography**](https://betterwebtype.com/8-tips-for-remarkably-better-typography/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Typography is so much more than picking a font and deciding what sizes to use for headings and body text.

### 🧠 UX

[**UX Case Study: Turning a 100-Year-Old Bank into a Digital Innovator**](https://medium.muz.li/ux-case-study-turning-a-100-year-old-bank-into-a-digital-innovator-5680a587e689?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

They challenged UXDA to update the bank’s legacy operations by designing an app that would enhance customer service and empower clients to make smarter financial decisions.

[**How (not) to get people to download your app**](https://builtformars.com/case-studies/reddit?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

As you can see, Reddit are killing their mobile web experience in an attempt to get you to download their apps.

### ⌨️ HTML

[**Small Details to Improve Your Website's Experience**](https://dev.to/alvaromontoro/small-details-to-improve-your-websites-experience-hio?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

We will review five small things that require a line or two of code and that will improve how users perceive your website.

[**Why Does Email Development Have to Suck?**](https://dodov.dev/blog/why-does-email-development-have-to-suck?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

An email is essentially just an HTML document, like a web page, except it's visualized in an email client, rather than a web browser.

[**I Blame the W3C's HTML Standard for Ordered Lists**](https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1819759.html?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Over on Mastodon, I had made the comment "CSS will always be hamstrung by HTML's toxic content/appearance paradigm"

### 🖌️ CSS

[**Laying out dots on a dice using display:flex & pseudo-classes**](https://mackfitz.hashnode.dev/laying-out-dots-on-a-dice-using-displayflex-pseudo-classes?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

:nth-child, :is, :not, and wacky combinations thereof in an effort to display one, two, three, four, five or six pips in three rows and three columns

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