📚 Free eBooks: Upgrade your UX & Interface Design Skills
Tags: webdev, css, design, ux
Published: 2023-09-01 10:07:32


**Happy Wednesday** 🙋‍♂️ Here's a quick look at this week's newsletter:

🎉 New CSS Features
📕 Playbook for Universal design
⚡️ Tools to create cool backgrounds

Enjoy this weeks edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club. 

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### 📦 Resources

[**38 Websites you can use for cool backgrounds**](https://dev.to/vincenius/38-websites-you-can-use-for-cool-backgrounds-2mep?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Here is a summary of all the websites I've found that you can use to get creative backgrounds for your website.

### 🎨 Design

[**Free Books For Interface & UX Designers**](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/articles/interface-design-books/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Useful free eBooks for UX designers, interface designers and product designers — on everything from accessibility and typography to management, IA and content strategy.

[**Playbook for Universal Design**](https://universaldesignguide.com/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

The methods include tips for how to accommodate participants with diverse abilities to ensure that everyone feels included in a workshop setting no matter what they are capable of.

### 🧠 UX

[**7 reasons to replace advanced search with filters**](https://adamsilver.io/blog/7-reasons-to-replace-advanced-search-with-filters-so-users-can-easily-find-what-they-need/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Advanced search is probably one of the earliest patterns I remember from the early days. The pattern is a link under the search box that takes users to a page with search options.

### 🏎️ Performance

[**Optimizing speed on eBay.com**](https://medium.com/@addyosmani/shopping-for-speed-on-ebay-com-6229711d7573?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

For every 100 milliseconds improvement in search page loading time, eBay saw a 0.5% increase in “Add to Cart” count.

### 🖌️ CSS

[**Scroll shadows with animation-timeline**](https://daverupert.com/2023/08/animation-timeline-scroll-shadows/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

I got myself into a position: sticky + horizontal scrolling situation with some overflowing tables the other day.

[**Four new CSS features for smooth entry and exit animations**](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/entry-exit-animations/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Motion is a core part of any digital experience, guiding your user from one interaction to the next. But there are a few gaps in smooth animations on the web platform.

[**#DEVDiscuss: Sassy CSS**](https://dev.to/devteam/devdiscuss-sassy-css-acn?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

What are the biggest challenges you have faced when working with SCSS? How difficult did you find it to pick up SCSS if you were already familiar with CSS? Any tips for newcomers?

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