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• Flowbite React: released new theming system, CLI toolkit, prefix support, and integration guides

  25-03-2025 21:16 via webdesignernews.com
  Flowbite React just got a major update which improves the theming system to allow better customization of the components using Tailwind CSS classes, a new CLI and upgrade tool, prefix support, and over 12 new integration guides.
  
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• Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally with LM Studio

  25-03-2025 19:01 via webdesignernews.com
  Running large language models (LLMs) locally with tools like LM Studio or Ollama has many advantages, including privacy, lower costs, and offline availability. However, these models can be resource-intensive and require proper optimization to run efficiently.
  
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• 10 rules for crafting products that stand out

  25-03-2025 19:00 via webdesignernews.com
  As CEO and Co-founder of software development platform Linear, Karri has built his success by making impenetrable quality his differentiator in a crowded startup market. His approach offers an alternative to the Zuckerberg “move fast and break things” mantra, which may have worked years ago but no longer resonates in today’s more mature, design-conscious market. “You have to match that level of capability or quality, otherwise people just don’t pay attention,&r
  
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• Interesting design ideas

  25-03-2025 18:58 via webdesignernews.com
  Hello! It’s starting to feel a little like Spring here in New York. For this week’s issue I’ve gathered together seven of the most interesting ideas about design I’ve shared over the past six months for your reading pleasure.
  
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• Easy way to upload, transform and deliver files and images

  25-03-2025 18:57 via webdesignernews.com
  Managing media is a really difficult task if you try to do all of it yourself, especially if the media comes from other sources. The file can be submitted in any state and size, but what if you need something really specific?
  
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• Best Free Thick Cursive Fonts for 2025

  25-03-2025 18:56 via webdesignernews.com
  Struggling to find bold, elegant fonts that stand out? Whether you’re a graphic designer, entrepreneur, or hobbyist, choosing the right thick cursive font can make or break your project. Thick script fonts—with their chunky strokes and fluid curves—are perfect for logos, wedding invitations, social media graphics, and branding. Yet, sifting through thousands of free options is time-consuming and frustrating.
  
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• Animating Letters with Shaders

  25-03-2025 18:56 via webdesignernews.com
  A beginner-friendly tutorial that explores how to create a dynamic text displacement effect using Three.js and custom shaders.
  
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• Website Development Process: 18 Steps to Online Success

  25-03-2025 18:54 via webdesignernews.com
  Are you about to embark on a new website development project? Want an easy-to-follow checklist to ensure online success?
  
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• BlackRock’s first European Bitcoin product hailed as ‘landmark development’ for crypto

  25-03-2025 18:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has launched its first Bitcoin product in Europe, a move that industry experts say will help legitimise cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance.  “This is a landmark development for crypto, displaying confidence in Bitcoin for mainstream investments,” Meryem Habibi, chief revenue officer at London-based crypto payment gateway Bitpace, told TNW.  “Through this first in Europe, BlackRock is not only legitimis
  
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• 23andMe bankruptcy: Can EU and UK laws protect DNA data? Here’s what you need to know

  25-03-2025 17:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  San Francisco-based 23andMe, which sells at-home DNA testing kits, has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is looking for a new buyer — heightening concerns about the personal data of millions of people.     23andMe experienced a major data breach in 2023, which exposed personal information like family trees, birth years, and geographic locations of approximately half of the company’s 15 million users.    Now, with the company sinking, 23andMe custo
  
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• Netherlands ranks above entire G7 in tech competitiveness, study finds

  25-03-2025 10:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Netherlands has ranked 10th in a global index of tech competitiveness, ahead of the entire G7 group of the world’s largest so-called “advanced” economies. The country was praised for its thriving digital economy, mature biotech and semiconductor industries, and strong digital skills underpinned by “engineering excellence.” London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and consultancy SThree produced the index, which ranks 35 countries based on
  
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• What Makes a Great Icon Set?

  24-03-2025 17:14 via webdesignernews.com
  When designing an icon set, one of the most important things to keep in mind is that a set is more than just a collection of individual icons—it’s a cohesive visual story. Great icon sets can flesh out a detailed picture of a particular subject or topic with consistency, clarity, and intentionality. Whether you’re illustrating a broad theme or specific objects, maintaining a unified style across your icons is essential for helping your icon set look polished, professional,
  
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• Italy freezes Starlink talks as Elon Musk’s controversies snowball

  24-03-2025 16:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last week, Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service was installed at the White House. A week before that, Donald Trump promoted Tesla on the White House front lawn, after rallying people to buy the company’s cars and stock.  The Trump administration’s endorsements of Musk’s companies are attracting growing scrutiny. Critics argue that they’re breaking laws and threatening democracy. For the world’s richest man, the relationship is also causing business prob
  
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• SAP becomes Europe’s most valuable company, ASML holds fourth place

  24-03-2025 13:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Just five months after surpassing ASML, German software giant SAP has overtaken Novo Nordisk to become Europe’s most valuable listed company. SAP’s shares rose 1.6% on Monday, bringing its market cap to €313bn. That was just enough to nudge Danish weight loss drugmaker Novo off the top spot.  SAP’s stock has risen more than 40% in the past year, amid booming demand for its AI-driven enterprise resource planning software (ERP). The cloud-based software centralises bus
  
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• Build UX Credibility + 20 New CSS Features You’ll Love

  22-03-2025 07:03 via webdesignernews.com
  We’ve got actionable insights into Google’s approach to driving feature adoption, advice for creating balanced design systems, and a reminder of why the infamous “F-pattern” still rules user behaviour. Plus, don’t miss highlights on practical design workflows and the ongoing battle between shipping quickly and striving for perfection.
  
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• How Can Designers Balance the Need for Minimalism With the Demand for Comprehensive Functionality?

  22-03-2025 07:02 via webdesignernews.com
  Intoday’s fast‑paced digital world, designers are often faced with the challenge of creating interfaces that are both minimalistic and functionally comprehensive. Minimalism emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and usability by removing unnecessary clutter. In contrast, comprehensive functionality requires incorporating a wide range of features that meet diverse user needs. Striking the right balance is crucial: too little information can leave users frustrated, while too much detail can
  
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• When Technology Becomes the Problem: A UX Cautionary Tale from Athens

  22-03-2025 07:00 via webdesignernews.com
  A bit of a different post today. Taking a break from my usual research deep-dives to share a real-world UX disaster I encountered on holiday…
  
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• Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses — And It’s Time to Bring Them Back!

  22-03-2025 06:59 via webdesignernews.com
  This isn’t your typical blog post; it’s an interactive experience in itself. As you scroll through the article, Amelia doesn’t just talk about the problem—she shows you. The design is slick, smooth, and responsive, letting you feel firsthand how much we’ve lost when interfaces were reduced to sterile, flat designs.
  
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• How to Make Social Media Graphics Work Smarter

  22-03-2025 06:57 via webdesignernews.com
  Social media platforms are constantly tweaking their algorithms, making it challenging for brands and creators to maintain visibility.
  
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• Previewing Content Changes In Your Work With document.designMode

  22-03-2025 06:56 via webdesignernews.com
  You probably already know that you can use developer tools in your browser to make on-the-spot changes to a webpage — simply click the node in the Inspector and make your edits. But have you tried document.designMode? Victor Ayomipo explains how it can be used to preview content changes and demonstrates several use cases where it comes in handy for everything from basic content editing to improving team collaboration.
  
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• Livewire Starter Kit: Switch Flux to Flowbite

  22-03-2025 06:54 via webdesignernews.com
  Example of how you may want to switch from Flux to any other UI kit or library, if you want to. Not sure if it would be a reasonable decision, but totally possible.
  
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• After Northvolt, Europe’s battery path leads to China — or new tech frontiers

  21-03-2025 09:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fuelled by $15bn in financing, Northvolt was supposed to be Europe’s great battery success story — a homegrown champion capable of competing with Asian and American giants.   So when Northvolt filed for bankruptcy last week, after months of job cuts, restructuring, and multiple failed attempts to raise more money, it dealt a massive blow to Europe’s ambitions to ramp up domestic production of lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from EVs to smartphones. 
  
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• Opinion: To close Europe’s defence tech gap, governments must support startups

  21-03-2025 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States has long understood a simple truth: war is won not by size alone, but by speed and creativity. Indeed, innovation has always been crucial in conflict. Armour made knights safe until the crossbow came along. High walls protected cities until cannons emerged. Trenches were made obsolete by fast-moving mechanised forces. The lesson: a military that cannot innovate is one that falls behind. Yet Europe remains stuck with an outdated model of defence procurement – one that fav
  
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• Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

  20-03-2025 20:32 via webdesignernews.com
  You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance.
  
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• How teams tap into the power of design with Figma Slides

  20-03-2025 20:30 via webdesignernews.com
  Today, we’re announcing new features in Figma Slides that unlock high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration.
  
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• Create a confetti animation with HTML canvas and JavaScript

  20-03-2025 20:29 via webdesignernews.com
  Have you ever clicked a button and seen a confetti animation explode onto the screen? Or visited a website where the whole screen is covered in that same confetti animation? Let’s make our own. In this tutorial, we’re going to make some dynamic confetti effects with JavaScript and the HTML Canvas API.
  
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• The JavaScript Library Born from a Design Agency’s Workflow

  20-03-2025 20:28 via webdesignernews.com
  Learn how to use this flexible JavaScript library for animations, smooth scrolling, and interactive effects.
  
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• Flat Design is Ending, Finally. What next?

  20-03-2025 20:27 via webdesignernews.com
  Flat design is becoming a thing of the past, giving way to a new era dubbed ‘Skeuomorphism 2.0’. This emerging trend embraces more intricate aesthetics like gradients, shadows, and blurs. New tools and standards, such as RVE for animations, are making it easier to integrate these elements into creative projects and landing pages, offering designers more freedom and variety. Despite this shift, mastery of these complex design elements is crucial to avoid overuse and maintain balance
  
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• 5 Rules for Beautiful Shot Composition

  20-03-2025 20:26 via webdesignernews.com
  What are the rules of shot composition? Join Tom and Hayden as they explore 5 key rules and show how you can use composition to tell your story by creating intrigue, drama, and visual interest.
  
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• Military vehicles to get mixed reality windshields controlled by human eyes

  20-03-2025 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Finnish startup Distance Technologies emerged from stealth last year with a technology it claims can turn any transparent surface into a mixed reality (MR) display. Now, it has teamed up with Patria to trial the tech on the defence firm’s armoured vehicles. The partners will jointly develop a heads-up display for Patria’s six-wheel drive armoured personnel carrier. The system will display 3D tactical data, terrain mapping, and AI-driven military insights directly onto the windshield
  
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• Zeroheight Releases Its Design Systems Report 2025

  20-03-2025 13:55 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Zeroheight’s "Design Systems Report 2025" shows that design tokens are exploding in popularity, with 84% of teams adopting them, but resource shortages and communication breakdowns are still major roadblocks. As AI enters the scene and dedicated teams grow, the future of design systems looks promising...
  
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• The European Accessibility Act risks becoming just a box-ticking exercise

  20-03-2025 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  With the compliance deadline for the European Accessibility Act (EAA) fast approaching, companies are urgently trying to ensure their websites meet the requirements of the EU directive.  One appealing solution is accessibility widgets — small add-ons with features like text resizing, contrast adjustments, and text-to-speech functions. However, while these widgets promise fast and inexpensive compliance, they often fail to address the real issues of accessibility. In fact, they can ev
  
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• How eBay built a bridge between brand and product with Figma

  19-03-2025 22:03 via webdesignernews.com
  When eBay set out to document their design system, they didn’t just want a reference guide—they wanted to create an experience where teams could find inspiration and excitement in their work.
  
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• Design Systems Report 2025

  19-03-2025 22:02 via webdesignernews.com
  Welcome to the Design Systems Report (formerly known as How We Document), our annual report that dives into the state of design systems. We’re into the fourth year of our report, and once again we’ve gathered the data on your teams, how you structure your design systems, the challenges you face and what makes a well adopted, highly trusted design system. Just under 300 of you participated in the survey, with the highest mix of roles we’ve had in the four years of running this r
  
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• The Battle Between Shipping and Perfection: A Designer’s Dilemma

  19-03-2025 22:01 via webdesignernews.com
  Designers, let’s talk about an uncomfortable truth. For many of us, the joy of our craft lies in creating work that is not just functional but exceptional. We love unearthing hidden user insights through research, challenging assumptions, and asking the kinds of questions that lead to elegant, transformative solutions. To us, this feels like the very essence of design: solving the problem in the best way possible. But here’s the rub…
  
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• From AI to Automation: The 2025 Toolkit for Web Designers & Agencies

  19-03-2025 13:08 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Gone are the days when “pretty pictures” alone could ensure visitor engagement. If your site isn’t responsive, practical, and easy to work with, users will quickly bounce. As a result, we’ve narrowed down a list of 10+ AI and professional design tools for web designers that go beyond surface-level aesthetics. From powerful website builders like […]
  
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• Euclid space telescope captures multiple ‘extremely rare’ double gravitational lenses

  19-03-2025 12:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Space Agency has released the first major batch of data from its “dark universe” telescope Euclid. What’s inside could change our understanding of dark matter and the expansion of the universe. The data comprises just one week’s worth of deep field images from three points in space. They make up just 0.4% of the vast area Euclid will capture, which scientists say will be the largest 3D map of the sky ever created. With one scan of each region so far, Euclid
  
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• Ex-ArianeGroup CEO backs Pangea to build 3D-printed aerospike rocket engines

  18-03-2025 18:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aerospike rocket engines are the stuff of legend in the space industry. Conceived in the 1960s, their unique spiked-nozzle design promises better efficiency, reusability, and performance at all altitudes. But their complexity — and the shutdown of major space programmes towards the end of the 20th century — meant they never entered the mainstream.  But now, startups are dusting off old designs and using new technologies to revive aerospike engines for modern spaceflight. One of
  
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• Exclusive: Visoid bags fresh funds for AI that accelerates 3D rendering for architects

  18-03-2025 15:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oslo-based startup Visoid has raised €700,000 in seed funding for its AI software, which helps architects turn their 3D models into striking renders within seconds.  For architects and designers, a good render can mean the difference between winning or losing a client. However, rendering typically requires a lot of time, effort, expertise — and money. Tools like Visoid look to disrupt the status quo. “What started as a simple tool for architects to generate beautiful visua
  
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• Dalot joins Ronaldo in backing personalised nutrition pioneer Bioniq

  18-03-2025 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Another star footballer has joined a startup’s lineup. Portugal’s Diogo Dalot is the latest recruit, teaming up with compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo to back personalised supplement pioneer Bioniq. Dalot has invested €1mn in the company, which has developed an innovative approach to nutrition. Founded in 2019, Bioniq analyses blood test biomarkers to create customised supplements for athletes. The recipes are created by an algorithm trained on over 6 million biochemi
  
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• AI Learning Resources & Insights

  17-03-2025 18:27 via webdesignernews.com
  Since joining Microsoft’s AI team last year, I’ve found myself diving headfirst into the world of artificial intelligence. What began as an overwhelming experience, trying to grasp concepts and frameworks, has now turned into a passion project that I’m eager to share with you. In just six months, I transitioned from being a complete beginner to confidently speaking at conferences, sharing insights about AI and its impact on business and design. This transformation was possible
  
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• What is a Dark Pattern and How to Avoid Them

  17-03-2025 18:26 via webdesignernews.com
  Recently, I found myself at a photo booth after an exhausting day. While processing my order, a screen appeared asking if I wanted additional photos for just £2 more. There were two options: a bold green “Continue” button that commanded attention, and a barely visible, desaturated grey “Skip” button that appeared almost non-clickable. I caught myself nearly pressing “Continue”, simply because it was the visually dominant choice — but I didn’t
  
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• Breadcrumbs Are Dead in Web Design

  17-03-2025 18:25 via webdesignernews.com
  Breadcrumbs, once a staple in web design, have become obsolete in today’s non-linear, context-driven web, where dynamic and personalized navigation systems take precedence. Modern navigation focuses on intelligent, search-first, and adaptive solutions that better cater to user needs and expectations.
  
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• Radiant Glow Effects Made with CSS and JavaScript

  17-03-2025 18:24 via webdesignernews.com
  Glow effects are a staple of design. They add to the aesthetic and create a mood. Everything from a buzzing neon sign to a sci-fi thriller movie comes to mind.
  
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• Top Elementor Post Slider Plugins

  17-03-2025 18:23 via webdesignernews.com
  Are you struggling to showcase your blog posts, portfolios, or WooCommerce products in an engaging way on your WordPress site? Elementor post sliders are the perfect solution to display your content dynamically, capturing your audience’s attention while improving user experience. Whether you’re looking for a post carousel Elementor plugin or a full-featured Elementor posts slider, there’s a tool out there to meet your needs.
  
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• A Return to Organic Design

  17-03-2025 18:23 via webdesignernews.com
  In an era dominated by digital design and sleek, polished graphics, it’s great seeing raw, hand-drawn and illustrated posters are making a strong comeback
  
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• Dylan Field and Garry Tan on design, AI, and the power of “locking in”

  17-03-2025 18:22 via webdesignernews.com
  With AI tools and models coming out faster than anyone can keep track of, designers and product builders are left wondering: Which technologies will stick? And how will they reshape the way we design and build software? Against this backdrop, Figma Co-founder and CEO Dylan Field and Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan sat down for a wide-ranging conversation about the staying—and growing—power of design, and the difference between making something work and making it work well. T
  
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• Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference?

  17-03-2025 18:21 via webdesignernews.com
  Some critics question the agnostic nature of Web Components, with some even arguing that they are not real components. Gabriel Shoyomboa explores this topic in-depth, comparing Web Components and framework components, highlighting their strengths and trade-offs, and evaluating their performance.
  
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• Dutch unicorn Mews mulls IPO in US amid concerns over support for startups

  17-03-2025 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dutch unicorn Mews will most likely list in the US instead of in Europe if the hospitality management company goes public, its CEO and co-founder Matthijs Welle told TNW.  “An IPO is one of the options that we would consider for the future, and if we were to go down that route, a listing in the US is the most likely option, although it is too early to specify further details regarding a potential listing,” Welle said. “Most other vertical SaaS companies, who are comparabl
  
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• Irish startup Equal1 unveils world’s first silicon-based quantum computer

  17-03-2025 16:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Irish startup Equal1 has unveiled the world’s first quantum computer that runs on a hybrid quantum-classical silicon chip.  Dubbed Bell-1 — after quantum physicist John Stewart Bell — the computer weighs around 200kg and plugs into a regular electrical socket. The rack-mountable machine is designed to simply slot into high-performance computing (HPC) data centres alongside standard servers.  Equal1’s CEO Jason Lynch told TNW that combining quantum technology wi
  
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