All posts in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)

Pixels of the Week – August 25, 2024

Pixels of the Week – August 25, 2024

👉🏻 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?

Pixels of the Week – August 18, 2024

Pixels of the Week – August 18, 2024

👉🏻 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.

Pixels of the Week – August 11, 2024

Pixels of the Week – August 11, 2024

👉🏻 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.

Pixels of the Week – August 4, 2024

Pixels of the Week – August 4, 2024

👉🏻 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.

Pixels of the Week – July 28, 2024

Pixels of the Week – July 28, 2024

👉🏻 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.

Pixels of the Week – July 21, 2024

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

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.

Pixels of the Week – July 7, 2024

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

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

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.