All posts in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)
Pixels of the Week – March 24, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: a workshop on research biases mitigation, UX methods, mico-interactions, card sorting, design rules and guidelines, asking for user pronouns, screen readers and special characters, WCAG 2.2 detective skill set, a song palindrome, a variable font to make football goals, Figma plugins, scroll driven animation, design inspiration, blocking AI crawlers and more.
Pixels of the Week – March 17, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: neurospicy stickers, estimating the work beyond the work, Redundant Acronym Syndrome, portfolio advice, personalization UX, navigating B2B design, AI and design systems, accessibility advocate toolkit, the devaluation of front-end, how to interrupt people, Geo Cities GIF search, a guidebook to design better AI experiments, gradient tools, 404 inspiration, hex colors, Figma multi edit, etc.
Pixels of the Week – March 10, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: Nielsen messed up on accessibility and AI, decision making frameworks, improving sliders UX, market research vs user research, the unusable internet, job red flags, GenAI impact on productivity is overblown, conspiracy to kill IE6, autolayout fun, skeumorphic Dieter Rams inspired components, digital privacy and security checklist, Figma pattern plugin, NSFW image detector, aria roldescription, etc.
Pixels of the Week – March 3, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: mastering Figma shortcuts, dead UX doesn’t stink, quantitative research, product comparison table design, designer handoff, deceptive patterns and ethics, resistance towards accessibility is futile, 2 fun browser games, simple site inspiration, navbar gallery, Figma plugins (gradient, curve text), psychology for UX study guide, a podcast on the mess of current UX job market, SVG loading spinner tutorial, advanced Figma tips, the wet iPhone in the rice myth debunked, etc.
Pixels of the Week – February 25, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: UX templates, user onboarding, Figma components checklist, balancing aesthetics and functionalities, employee experience, throwaway prototypes, AI can’t replace designers, designing for privacy, the looming cheese crisis, design inspiration, nearest color finder Figma plugin, vector arrows, navigating a designer career, UX writing guidelines, Figma components tips, big tech jobs have lost their glamour, etc.
Pixels of the Week – February 18, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: paper wireframe Figma kit, measuring task completion, signs of bad UX, don’t force people to log in, don’t disable form control, can AI help with accessible code, fun natural history like drawings, Figma plugins for status and floor plans, Figma icons, removing paywalls, boba ipsum, indicating mandatory fields tutorial, UXR consultant tips, Apple breaking PWAs, UX London workshops, etc
Pixels of the Week – February 11, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: a framework to help improve accessibility in organizations, stop using placeholders instead of labels, online review as secondary UX research, a $500 M typo, mental models, a history of checkboxes, small talk method, nice game dev portfolio, a fun infinite alchemy craft, sounds around the world, books on icons, Figma magnifier plugins, wireframes examples, slides inspiration, annotations in Figma dev mode.
Pixels of the Week – February 5, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: accessibility metaphors illustrated, figbruary, UX strategy, why customers are not “always right”, will UXers loose their job to AI (no), noise and churn, fun future designer roles, baking cakes in anything, effin birds illustrations, a nice designer books reading list, 3 icons sets, privacy tools, emboss line figma plugin, font pairing, focus-visible, variant numeric, etc.
Pixels of the Week – January 28, 2024
Product market fit framework, UX designers bring harmony among specialists, UI indicators, AI art is the new stock photo, icon design, top accessibility errors, negative space, 3D hover effect, a developer experience book, color palette tools, CSS loaders, habit trackers and nice printable calendars, an accessible fart machine, ARIA live regions tutorial, center things in CSS, hilariously bad AI generated products, etc.
Pixels of the Week – January 22, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: cognitive biases in research, “rules” of UI design (and why you need to be critical about such things), designing better targets sizes, opportunity gap survey, form validation, accessibility issues, Apple and video games, flavors of chips, fun drawing garden, brand identity quiz, a book on data viz, inspiration for accessible components, Figma blending plugin, keyboard shortcuts, SVG logos, icon grid tutorial, and CSS grid tutorial.