All posts in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)
Pixels of the Week – August 28, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: the broken UX bootcamps model, new variable font on the site, praise of the spreadsheet, design systems, outline is your friend, webaim conference, a fun map, font pairing, color contrast, noise, understand and test with a screen reader, typography, UX of back button, issues with agile methodology, how Janet Jackson song crashed WinXP, UX resume advice, a guide to help you with burn out, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 21, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: accessibility testing tool, accessibility checklist, a cognitive biases tool, Genderless design is a myth, CSS family selector, CSS border animation, links obfuscation and accessibility problems, AI and illustrations, color inspiration, heading accessibility issues, testing accessibility, UX research recruitment, some Midjourney fun, kaleidoscope animation, cute wooden trucks, beer consumption data viz, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 15, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: animations and accessibility, free books to learn design, history of screen readers, fitts law, a nice programming font, UX and Agile, Arcane anime behind the scene, avoiding ableist tropes, client redflags, don’t jump in design tools too soon, bringing the fun in accessibility, problems for blind users on a site, ambient sounds, autocomplete design pattern, table UX, button inspiration, Figma color plugin, illustration and dataviz inspiration, cool DALL·E experiments with pokemons, etc.
My favorite 10+ free eBooks for designers (and a trick to access more books for a small fee)
Education is something everyone should have access to. But sometimes, you might not have the budget to buy books. I put together a list of my 10+ favorite free eBooks on design, information architecture, accessibility,… And there is also the option of public libraries (or universities) to access eBooks for a small fee. Or for free sometimes.
Pixels of the Week – Sunday 24, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: my designing better products workshop, making social media more accessible, ecommerce search queries, a fun hacker game, design a pricing page, UI pattern inspiration, LGBTQIA+ inclusion in tech, UX and autism, mode design, multilingual user research, finding UX research participants, should PMs do research?, free public APIS, plane dataviz, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 17, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: inclusive design, user diary studies, accessibility testing, low tech UIs, UX documentation, communicating accessibility, accessibility for social media, psychology, overlay criticism, fun demo, user research consent, what is a strategy, a fun cat food marble run, how maps of earth were created, sounds of nature, figma illustrations plugin, call to action copy, dark mode guide, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 10, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: CSS gradient generator, origins of the names of some UI patterns (radio, accordion, etc.), touch first cursor, defensive CSS, better buttons, privacy, accessibility, the problem with liked shaped design, UX RACI matrix, is crypto all bad, game design books, zero tracking font host, fun SVG filter, feminist tech principles, design tools compared, keyboard accessibility, mobile UX, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 3, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: some of my holiday illustrations, disability dongle, different tools, iOS accessibility, Sketch accessibility plugin, components showcase, UX and localization, making surveys less bad, Figma text resize plugin, UX job hunting podcast, fun mobile experience, access research papers, Jira frustration, typography, crypto in Latin America, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 12, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: dark mode accessibility, video game accessibility, time travel, SVG animations, React Native accessibility resources, a map tool, navigation information architecture, free illustrations, students cheating, sounds of cats and trees, can I devtool, crypto sckepticism, a game in Word, typography tutorial, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 5, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: ARIA patterns examples, enterprise UX podcast, keyboard testing, many articles on accessibility, accessibility playbook, CSS object view box, usability testing checklist, gaming industry, purchasing power parity, time management, neurodiversity and inclusion, privacy, inclusive experience checklist, protactile, cool CSS and SVG demos, CSS page transitions, typography, psychology, beautiful inspiration, etc.