✏ Issue #494: 3 Essential Design Trends, GitHub Copilot, UX is Killing Creativity, Pairing Fonts, and more…

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Every month we put together this roundup of the latest design trends we’ve found on the web. This month, you’ll either love or hate the trends. From monotone color palettes to almost-Brutalism, to cyberpunk-inspired faces, the current crop of trends is both controversial and a short-lived product of their time. Enjoy!

GitHub has released Copilot, a Visual Studio extension that inserts complex snippets into your code as you type. It has been trained using billions of lines of public code from GitHub repositories. Copilot can convert pseudo-code comments into real code, autofill repetitive code, offer alternative syntax, and more.

UX Design is about an optimized solution to a problem. But what if the best solution is something that hasn’t been tried and tested? To paraphrase Henry Ford, “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.” Michael Buckley looks at the clash between creative solutions and UX in this great article.

Have you been invited to yet another meeting? Does your team have better things to do? tl;dv is an awesome app for video meetings that allows you to link meeting minutes to the exact moment, share the important points — like the decisions — and skip the waffle. tl;dv works with Zoom, Slack, Google Hangouts, and more.

Combining typefaces is one of the trickiest skills a designer has to learn. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to over or underdo it. In this helpful beginner’s guide to pairing fonts, Oliver Schöndorfer walks us through the basics of selecting typefaces that complement each other, contribute to the overall design, and align with your personal design aesthetic.

Glass UI is a modern CSS UI library based on the popular glassmorphism style that features subtle gradients, blurring, and soft box shadows. It has just launched a free Glassmorphism CSS Generator so you can design websites quickly by specifying a few style properties, including colors, blur, and opacity values.

WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20th. As part of the new version, the developers have created a new widgets screen to help you transition from the old WordPress way of doing things to the new WordPress way of doing things. Justin Tadlock explores what’s coming for WordPress developers in this helpful post.

Tinybird is a SaaS that allows you to create analytical API endpoints rapidly, with no backend involved. You can manipulate your data using SQL. Deliver data from relational databases or data streams, and it will be available in your API over HTTP almost instantly. It’s a smart solution for teams working with deep data.