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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

joshwcomeau.com/css/designing-shadows/
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.

By Design

megconley.com/by-design/
The history of kitchen design is full of feminist utopias founded on white supremacy.

Thinking with your hands – Scott Jenson

jenson.org/hands/
Thinking with your hands is about ignoring your gut, at least at first. It’s about pausing and unpacking your initial instincts. We all know UX requires research and exploratory prototyping: we pride ourselves on never accepting a problem at face value. Why can’t we apply our craft to ourselves? (OK, this is a little meta, hang in there) Isn’t it odd that it rarely occurs to designers that our precious UX process could apply to US?