All posts in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)
Pixels of the Week – February 25, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: UX templates, user onboarding, Figma components checklist, balancing aesthetics and functionalities, employee experience, throwaway prototypes, AI can’t replace designers, designing for privacy, the looming cheese crisis, design inspiration, nearest color finder Figma plugin, vector arrows, navigating a designer career, UX writing guidelines, Figma components tips, big tech jobs have lost their glamour, etc.
Pixels of the Week – February 18, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: paper wireframe Figma kit, measuring task completion, signs of bad UX, don’t force people to log in, don’t disable form control, can AI help with accessible code, fun natural history like drawings, Figma plugins for status and floor plans, Figma icons, removing paywalls, boba ipsum, indicating mandatory fields tutorial, UXR consultant tips, Apple breaking PWAs, UX London workshops, etc
Pixels of the Week – February 11, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: a framework to help improve accessibility in organizations, stop using placeholders instead of labels, online review as secondary UX research, a $500 M typo, mental models, a history of checkboxes, small talk method, nice game dev portfolio, a fun infinite alchemy craft, sounds around the world, books on icons, Figma magnifier plugins, wireframes examples, slides inspiration, annotations in Figma dev mode.
Pixels of the Week – February 5, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: accessibility metaphors illustrated, figbruary, UX strategy, why customers are not “always right”, will UXers loose their job to AI (no), noise and churn, fun future designer roles, baking cakes in anything, effin birds illustrations, a nice designer books reading list, 3 icons sets, privacy tools, emboss line figma plugin, font pairing, focus-visible, variant numeric, etc.
Pixels of the Week – January 28, 2024
Product market fit framework, UX designers bring harmony among specialists, UI indicators, AI art is the new stock photo, icon design, top accessibility errors, negative space, 3D hover effect, a developer experience book, color palette tools, CSS loaders, habit trackers and nice printable calendars, an accessible fart machine, ARIA live regions tutorial, center things in CSS, hilariously bad AI generated products, etc.
Pixels of the Week – January 22, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: cognitive biases in research, “rules” of UI design (and why you need to be critical about such things), designing better targets sizes, opportunity gap survey, form validation, accessibility issues, Apple and video games, flavors of chips, fun drawing garden, brand identity quiz, a book on data viz, inspiration for accessible components, Figma blending plugin, keyboard shortcuts, SVG logos, icon grid tutorial, and CSS grid tutorial.
Pixels of the Week – January 14, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: betters story telling framework, the value of utility in products, UX research in video games, neurodiversity, external links and keyboard accessibility, fun ChatGPT fails, a hexadecimal Wordle like guessing game, free books, PWAs capabilities, responsive SVGs, container queries units and some new material design builder for Figma.
2023 wrap-up – the craft and creative part
Let’s start 2024 with a little creative wrap-up of 2023. This part is about craft, and the things I created this year, with my little hands that are not work related: illustrations, sticker, but also paper plants, earrings in many types of materials, hot foiling, glow in the dark mayhem and so much moreother fun things with different materials and techniques.
Pixels of the Week – December 24, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: biases in UX research, mobile navigation patterns, web accessibility, documenting design, state of UX, free ebook on typography, ADHD tool to get things done, VSCode Plugins, webdesigner tools, mini icons, Figma 1h getting started video, oklch() goodness, design process cheatsheet, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 17, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: the UX of HTML, more hours doesn’t make you productive, building accessibility checklists, a variable font, some cool animations, exploring the history of old maps, periodic tables of tools, CSS peeps, conversational UI toolkit, noise and texture plugin, online poker planning, UX ideas, a book on tech unions, some cool tutorials (CSS grid, accessibility chat, breakpoints in Figma, etc), new Adobe design system with a focus on accessibility, the mammoth icon that looks like the Walt Disney W and more.