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.
2023 wrap-up – the professional part
A new year starts, it’s time for a 2023 wrap-up. This part will be about my professional year: my work, speaking and workshop content, the blog, the UX template shop and more.
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.
Pixels of the Week – December 10, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: product risk management workshop, accessibility annotation kits, UIs for AI tools, why carousels don’t work, accessibility beyond compliance, designer layoff analysis, nice wild life pictures, astronomical calendar, LEGO minifigures, designer books, stereogram solver, design system calendar, EPUB accessibility checker, fun avatar tool, free UX resources, container queries tutorial, CSS nesting, etc.
Pixels of the Week – November 19, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: making better UX reports, don’t disable buttons, concept testing, accessible animations, browser text zoom, accessibility timeline, strength based approach to accessibility, a fun song, flag goofy redesigns, a nice coding monospace font, an open source survey tool, some accessibility tutorials (buttons height and focus indicator), HTML attributes you should know about and prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media query.
Pixels of the Week – November 12, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: UX research template, threat modelling, sheet dialog and snack bars, social loafing and AI, how Nintendo stays relevant, minimal affordance, modern CSS, divtober, internet artifacts museum, nice button inspiration, gradient map plugin, selector information, a prompt engineering game and some accessibility tutorials on color and alt text.
A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions
Accessibility is unfortunately still an afterthought on many projects. User interaction and accessibility requirements are poorly documented, at best. Or forgotten, when handing over designs to developer teams. And fixing it later costs a LOT more than building it right to begin with. Why, what and how designers can document different aspects of accessibility and user interactions requirements, to build better more inclusive products.
Pixels of the Week – November 5, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: AI stereotyping the world, risk tolerance reflected in UI decisions, form design, SUS for enterprise, neurodiversity, ADHD hyperfocus, data poisoning to fight back AI generated images, cute Disney robots, WordArt nostalgia, email swag, coding kitty, affordance, guides to finding accessibility features, a design system colors tutorial, translating chickens’s chatter (yup), etc.
Pixels of the Week – October 29, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: UX research, enterprise UX, heuristic review, game accessibility, personalization, research case studies, UX research private panels, ChatGPT for UX audits (don’t), 3D printed salmon, fun dataviz of Tokyo’s public transportation, personal sites inspiration, design books, SaaS pricing inspiration, animation tutorial, micro copy, complex accessible patterns, tools for dyslexia, web push almost in iOS17.