The UX Research and Design Blog

👉🏻 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.

👉🏻 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.

👉🏻 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.

👉🏻 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.

👉🏻 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.

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: visual design rules you can safely follow, the worst website, explicit design rules, designing for voice, can you taste design, the power of kawaii design, accessibility in design systems, autocorrected names issue, queer Nigerian artists risking everything, a fun train game, free design stuff, SVG patterns generators, what’s new in the web (Google I/O ‘24), :user-valid and :user-invalid, masonry and reading order, etc.