Pixels of the Week – July 21, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: mobile accessibility toolkit, product design exercises 1.1, AI and the commoditization of design, great design isn’t pixel perfect, bad design is like a virus, generative AI in UX research, 5 UX research mistakes, to hell with the business case, cooking recipe search, handy arrows, deceptive patterns’ hall of shame, alternative to google docs, CSS shadow tutorial, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 14, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: how to check and document design accessibility, resources for UX desk research, AI anxiety and design, why toggle switches suck, checkboxes design guidelines, design token ugly mode, the one million checkboxes game, alt text selfies, tech layoff tracker, free geometric patterns, data table design patterns, etc.
How to check and document design accessibility in your mockups
And a lot of accessibility issues can be already foreseen and prevented in the design phase. From color usage to contrast ratios, text resizing, complex interactions, keyboard navigation and more: save time documenting accessibility in Figma mockups with practical tips and a list of selected tools, plugins, and templates.
Pixels of the Week – July 7, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: zenko mapping, accessible color contrast guide, 6 common mistakes in qualitative interviews, five golden questions for conversions, good design in the age of AI, don’t be fooled by Figma AI, scaling taste, the Furiosa movie and disability representation, keyboard simulator, dark mode implementation, quick guide to markdown, Mattel’s color-blind accessible games, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 30, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: letter checker for font legibility, interesting cognitive biases, the multisensory experience in food design, in praise of the basics (HTML, CSS), learn grid now container queries can wait, apple’s AI strategy, a fun dropping hat AI computer vision experiment, a data viz on mullets in football teams, textures for 3D modeling, leveraging behavioral audits for better outcomes.
Pixels of the Week – June 16, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: avoid common portfolio mistakes, UX research tasks AI can help with, presenting research to stakeholders, the workshops diverge-and-converge technique, “research theater”, user research explained as storytelling, no web without women, illustrations and ceramics, colorful hydrants, a self-paced degree in UX research, reverse dictionary, Figma product design activity planner, landmark naming tutorial, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 9, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: visual design rules you can safely follow, the worst website, explicit design rules, designing for voice, can you taste design, the power of kawaii design, accessibility in design systems, autocorrected names issue, queer Nigerian artists risking everything, a fun train game, free design stuff, SVG patterns generators, what’s new in the web (Google I/O ‘24), :user-valid and :user-invalid, masonry and reading order, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 2, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: accessibility for designer workshop, sensory environment checklist, north start metric, hidden vs. disabled, chatbots vs. humans, personalization without being creepy, new CSS tricks, AI and accessibility, Victorian nipple rings, Figma plugins (OKLCH color variation plugin, vector to 3D) design salary database, accessible text resizing, container queries, Apple and Google’s accessibility new features, etc.
Pixels of the Week – May 26, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: RICE product prioritization, low fidelity design value, deceptive discounting, is the customer always right, AI helping people with dyslexia, font legibility, generative AI-driven design patterns, wireframe Figma plugin, pattern generator, design inspiration, junior designer job board, hand-drawn icons, free UI sounds, WCAG 3.0 outcomes, etc.
Pixels of the Week – May 19, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: why dark mode isn’t always better, when to use AI, design is politics, UX research without access to users, storytelling in UX research reports, generative AI in UI/UX design, contact form debate, focus vs accessibility focus, air travel design guide, a fun chimera font, doom scroll, brutalist shapes pack, Figma 101 course, Figma variables tutorial, etc.