The UX Research and Design Blog

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: choice is not the enemy, what to do when qual and quant disagree, becoming a better designer, Gmail’s “impossible” problem, creative usage of AI for writers, how to organize user feedback, a dopamine song, a cool fishbowl demo, Gyotaku fish art, free e-books for designers, free illustrations, open source alternative to linktree, the new CSS logo, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: accessible color palettes, digital product vs web design, gamifying UX research findings, public speaking advice, AI for mock tables and charts content, 3D printed boat, LEGO Dune Thumper, email design inspiration, app store screenshot inspirations, a doodle library, productivity app,  stippling Figma plugin, dev encyclopedia, a reverse dictionary, accessible accordion components, advanced Figma components tips & tricks.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: My NN/group podcast on accessibility, WCAG 2.2 metro like map by theme, landing your first product design role, captions vs. subtitles, perils of low-cost strategies, avoiding leading questions in user research, pro tips for user interviews, perception of blue vs green, Figma color palettes, a nice mono font, top 10 government design systems, animated favicon generator, Japanese web design, labelling text fields tutorial, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: experts vs. imitators, tabs UX, toasts are bad UX, neurodesign, checkout UX best practices, ecommerce product list UX, the 80/20 accessibility rule, traffic cameras selfies, movies data visualization, book cover archive, buoyancy, styles & variables organizer, pixel emojis set, WYSIWYG Markdown editor, image to mesh gradient, assessing WCAG 2.2 components, 8 Figma tips for UI3, keyboard shortcut support for links, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: on asking users to draw the interface, bring information architecture back, fast food kiosks UX review, how imitation breeds mediocrity, forcing unbaked AI features in products, the discord bot era of design, tools for creatives, animate on path Figma plugin, public domain image search, designer playlist, Netflix categories cheatcodes, marketing ideas, accessible forms, hacking AI for typography, Procreate’s anti-AI pledge?

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: responsive mobile tables, designing for errors, behavioral principles in onboarding, psychometric tests and diversity, gestalt principles illustrated, more accessible version of xkcd, best Figma plugins, Figma keyboard shortcuts, 3D design tool, one million screenshots, macOS cursors, starting a UXR consultancy in low maturity countries, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: Cat Quest’s fun pirate ships for your cat, mapping the landscape of gen-AI product UX, HTML email design tool, B2B UI principles, demo no paywall homepage concepts, dangerous metaphors in AI, a dungeons & dragons alt text lesson, inclusion in usability testing, astronomy pictures, web design inspiration, fake Blue Screen of Death, free avatars, open source sextoys control library, accessible combobox, blind Barbie, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: collecting UI buttons, value of good design, breaking bad research news, content strategy vs. UX writing, Figma AI tools won’t replace us, agency vs product work,  kiosks accessibility, European Accessibility Act explained, Wikipedia’s first link rule, beautiful illustrations, a native app accessibility handbook and a web performance book, listen to free audio books, design tool tips, landing page inspiration, etc.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: introduction to user interviews workshop, iceberg drawing fun, strategic information architecture, minimum WCAG target size, is agile over, curated design inspiration, free SVG icons, 2D shape interpolation script, react kawaii icons, a directory of design systems, accessibility and typography, impact of European accessibility act, practical SVG book, twitter thread on Figma AI terms, etc.

👉🏻 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.