The UX Research and Design Blog
My practical expert insights and curated content (resources, tools, etc.) on UX research, inclusive design, enterprise UX, accessibility, and more, to help you growth as a designer.
Pixels of the Week – October 5, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: OKLCH gradients, screen readers and AI ethics, UX maturity regression, smart defaults in Borderlands 4, boring LLMs are they way to go, the history of pumpkin spice latte, mobile web inspiration, European product alternatives, brutalita font editor, generative design gallery, accessible flip card tutorial, design system accessibility audit
Pixels of the Week – September 28, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: how blind people navigate the world, accessible content for limited english proficiency, AI helping neurodivergent users, replacing webform with AI unstructured inputs, video game marquee inspiration, swiss cheese font, pokématch card game, color sort therapy, adrift paper boats quiet space, designing focus indicators, responsive typography in Figma sites, color contrast testing, etc.
Pixels of the Week – September 21, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: from “how might we” to “at what cost”, AI as ebike, or as teleportation interesting metaphors, history of themeable user interfaces, HTML tags memory game, signs of AI writing, panama playlists, a Star Wars universe map, a fun draw audio music experiment, accessible data design, fixing CSS & HTML for accessibility, accessible authentication.
Pixels of the Week – September 14, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: invisible stigma in user research, common accessibility mistakes, “your” vs “my” in interfaces, standing out in our industry, super IC career path, AI criticism, travelling third spaces, design trends through sport posters, UI inspiration, OKLCH color tool, ethical reasons to leave Substack, nine delighters framework.
Pixels of the Week – September 7, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: the national design studio is a scam, designing agentic AI, how AI is changing search behaviors, quality is a trap, chat is the future or a terrible UI, cookie monster Figma experiment, CSS color trust issues, pattern craft gallery, heading accessibility issues to avoid, web accessibility in mind conference
Pixels of the Week – August 31, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: enterprise UX and accessibility, the age of no AI consent, design for neurodivergent users, accessible graphs, synthetic users vs real personas, optimal onion dicing, aging face experiment, mushroom color atlas, nice rocks, ChatGPT for neurodivergent users, dark mode toggles.
Pixels of the Week – August 24, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: accessible yellow and purple palettes, WCAG vs EAA, embedding accessibility in company culture, agentic web and blind shopping, assistive technologies beyond screen readers, accessible link styling, curated brand archives, fun color fonts, pricing page inspiration, one-time secret links, world painting canvas.
Yellow, Purple, and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
Accessibility does not limit your palette choices. What feels limiting is often a lack of knowledge or creativity. To prove it, I created six distinct WCAG-tested yellow and purple palettes. In this detailed tutorial, I share exactly how I built them. So you can create accessible, original palettes too!
Pixels of the Week – August 10, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: why designers sound negative, how to make accessibility stick with “yes, but”, “powered by AI” is not a value proposition, interfaces that augment or replace, history of the word dude, NYC’s urban textscape, old split flap board typography, a fun animation tool, HEART framework to measure UX, rainbow selection in CSS, inclusive design 24 conference.
Pixels of the Week – August 3, 2025
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: don’t trust the (design) process, dealing with lying research participants, the product triad, gaming cancer, pentagon pizza index, linocut inspiration, cute plates, explore the girl with a pearl earring painting at high zoom level, Windows XP in the browser, accessible video player, OKLChroma color scale builder, using tech as a deafblind person, priority compass, etc.