Pixels of the Week – September 11, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: update of my documenting accessibility for designers talk, my podcast episode on the UX hiring mess, screen reader testing, cognitive biases, agile and the misuse of “MVP”, typography inspiration, creative maps, information architecture, accessibility and easter eggs, CSS container queries syntax, is a UX career right for me, public domain awesome pictures, UX writing tool, creative list CSS styling, deceiving offboarding, breaking into digital accessibility careers, behavioral psychology at Uber, UI inspiration, etc.
Enterprise UX: essential resources to design complex data tables
I often work on dashboards, internal tools and web apps with a LOT of complex data to display. Most of the time, that data is displayed in different forms and variations of tables. From basics and specific table patterns to enterprise app tables tips and fitting big tables with a lot of content in any screen, I put together a list of resources and blog posts that will help you design complex tables with a lot of data and interactions.
Pixels of the Week – September 4, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: better error messages, cognitive accessibility and UX design, variable font tool, LCP performance, accessibility names, GSAP MatchMedias, a beautiful font, modern CSS layout, history of clippy, CSS carousel, AI generated images for music videos, concept of fungible, Axure tips, media queries cheatsheet, a book on diagrams, darker than black paint, particle animations, etc.
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.