🔮 Front-End Foresight - 7 Emerging Trends for 2024 Devs
Tags: css, frontend, ux, ui
Published: 2024-01-18 15:08:00


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

🖌️ Elevate Your UI Game - 58 Rules to Craft Designs 
🔧 Next-Level NextJS - 28 Advanced Features  
🎨 The Ultimate Guide to Writing CSS in 2024

Enjoy this week's edition 👋 - Adam at Unicorn Club.  

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### 🧑‍💻 Dev

[**28 Advanced NextJS features everyone should know**](https://codedrivendevelopment.com/posts/rarely-known-nextjs-features?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

This is a guide about some lesser-known features of NextJS. I've included things in this article that I have not seen in NextJS applications that I've worked on.

[**How I'm Writing CSS in 2024**](https://leerob.io/blog/css)

This post will be a collection of my notes and thoughts about the CSS ecosystem and the tools I'm currently using.

[**7 front-end web development trends for 2024**](https://www.frontendmentor.io/articles/7-frontend-web-development-trends-for-2024-qtBD0H0hY3?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

While mastering every new tool isn't necessary, knowing 2024's trends, as outlined in this article, can help keep your skills fresh and know what's coming.

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[**Top Front-End Tools Of 2023**](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/01/top-frontend-tools-2023/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Who doesn’t love a good front-end tool? In this roundup, you’ll find useful front-end tools that were popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow.

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Showcasing beautiful icon designs from the iOS App Store.

[**58 rules for beautiful UI design**](https://uxdesign.cc/58-rules-for-stunning-and-effective-user-interface-design-ea4b93f931f6?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, making the difference between a user who engages once and one who returns time and again.

[**A Global Design System**](https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-global-design-system/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components.

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