2022 year in review – the professional part
I followed the trend, and I prepared a little “year in review”. It was very long, so I split it into two articles. This article is about my professional year: my work, conferences, workshops, articles and the brand new shop where you can get templates and resources to save time in your daily UX research and design activities.
Pixels of the Week – December 25, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: CSS mesh gradient, LinkedIn profile tips to get a design job, CSS style queries, we know what you did with Papyrus, paper box templates, esport misogynoir, AI vs human illustrator comparison, roombas recording people, cool CSS features, beautiful typography projects, social media captioning, keyboard ducks, text to excel formula, history maps, fun pixelart infinite scroll experiment, accessible ads, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 18, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: conscious design systems, brainstorming meeting, screen reader user interview, GPT and AI criticism and issues, accessible color palette, new things in WCAG 2.2, browser games and lofi music, accessibility usability testing checklist, beautiful dataviz of the observable universe, a collection of music and video AI generators, some AI generated images, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 11, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: terms of service didn’t read, asteroid launcher simulator, social media algorithms, content strategy, customer centricity book, note taking, selling UX research, framework to plan UX research, Japan’s websites, onion metrics, accessibility information architecture problems, performance cards, CSS large and small viewport units, accessibility impact of HTML elements, AI and future of design, project ideas, show people data, context matters, CSS positioning, metaverse, phrases from movies, patterns inspiration, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 4, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: dashboard design, landing page inspiration, marketing pop ups, quantum physics, free online tools, CSS display:content, procrastination, a guide to ux research, Google fonts pairing, setting up a screen reading testing environment, password UX, AI tools, UX research data from other departments, AI font generator, JS keybinding, designer communities, etc.
Pixels of the Week – November 27, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: dashboard patterns, accessibility course, research activities during interviews, how we messed up text inputs, UX layoffs, bus factor, cognitive bias cookbook, HCI ideas from Apple, fun AI generated street art renaissance art, keyboard accessibility tutorial, some AI image generator tools, accessfuturism, interesting history of coffee story, CSS :where(), hostile error messages, mobile navigation, readability guidelines, etc.
Pixels of the Week – Sunday November 20, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: free online accessibility course, algorithm biases, accessibility articles for designers, algorithm bias, notion tools, heading accessibility, good alt texts, UX research kit, HCI methods for UI evaluation, HCI demos, design career paths, introduction to web components, user pathways in analytics, neuroscience and music, text-to-3D engine, cute demos, Doom (the game), etc.
Pixels of the Week – November 13, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: Clarity 2022, UX research real talk, AI and artist lack of consent, accessibility focused test driven development, a small CSS library, mobile navigation UX, social media accessibility, ARIA roles for e-commerce accessibility, icebreakers, too much CSS?, accessibility in education, Mid Journey generated Japanese monsters, why everything looks the same, ways to say “I do not do that fro free”, CSS outline animations, good copywriting examples, UX heuristics, etc.
Pixels of the Week – November 6, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: designing and accessible future, drag and drop UX, UX concepts explained in Sketchnotes, lefty dentists and inclusive design, a research paper aggregator, user journey map template, CSS Pokemon cards shiny effect, CSS speech, accessibility and design systems, SEO horror stories, 2 brainstorming tool, stakeholder interview, problem solving in design, Dracula UI, fake mockups, AI and design, CSS gradients and a fun video of a vegetarian vampire eating ketchup.
Pixels of the Week – October 30, 2022
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: accessibility and dark mode, better error messages, why surveys can be terrible, field studies, SVG sprites, workshop facilitation tips, luxury surveillance, accessible feature testing, illustration inspiration, visual diagrams, free SVG icons, eyetracking, font for dyslexic people, X-ray scan of objects, AI stock images, CSS halftone patterns, keyboard shortcuts, etc.