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.
Pixels of the Week – January 14, 2024
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: betters story telling framework, the value of utility in products, UX research in video games, neurodiversity, external links and keyboard accessibility, fun ChatGPT fails, a hexadecimal Wordle like guessing game, free books, PWAs capabilities, responsive SVGs, container queries units and some new material design builder for Figma.
2023 wrap-up – the craft and creative part
Let’s start 2024 with a little creative wrap-up of 2023. This part is about craft, and the things I created this year, with my little hands that are not work related: illustrations, sticker, but also paper plants, earrings in many types of materials, hot foiling, glow in the dark mayhem and so much moreother fun things with different materials and techniques.
2023 wrap-up – the professional part
A new year starts, it’s time for a 2023 wrap-up. This part will be about my professional year: my work, speaking and workshop content, the blog, the UX template shop and more.
Pixels of the Week – December 24, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: biases in UX research, mobile navigation patterns, web accessibility, documenting design, state of UX, free ebook on typography, ADHD tool to get things done, VSCode Plugins, webdesigner tools, mini icons, Figma 1h getting started video, oklch() goodness, design process cheatsheet, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 17, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: the UX of HTML, more hours doesn’t make you productive, building accessibility checklists, a variable font, some cool animations, exploring the history of old maps, periodic tables of tools, CSS peeps, conversational UI toolkit, noise and texture plugin, online poker planning, UX ideas, a book on tech unions, some cool tutorials (CSS grid, accessibility chat, breakpoints in Figma, etc), new Adobe design system with a focus on accessibility, the mammoth icon that looks like the Walt Disney W and more.
Pixels of the Week – December 10, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: product risk management workshop, accessibility annotation kits, UIs for AI tools, why carousels don’t work, accessibility beyond compliance, designer layoff analysis, nice wild life pictures, astronomical calendar, LEGO minifigures, designer books, stereogram solver, design system calendar, EPUB accessibility checker, fun avatar tool, free UX resources, container queries tutorial, CSS nesting, etc.
Pixels of the Week – November 19, 2023
👉🏻 Curated weekly UX, Design & Tech resources: making better UX reports, don’t disable buttons, concept testing, accessible animations, browser text zoom, accessibility timeline, strength based approach to accessibility, a fun song, flag goofy redesigns, a nice coding monospace font, an open source survey tool, some accessibility tutorials (buttons height and focus indicator), HTML attributes you should know about and prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media query.