Pixels of the Week – December 27, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: the cupcake model for product strategy, typography, CSS glitch effect, a nice color palette generator and a pattern generator, CSS animations tool, a fun pinkish platform game in the browser, accessibility anchor links, handling long content and centering in CSS, more UI game inspiration, etc.
Pixels of the Week – December 20, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: you belong in tech, learning CSS, game UI inspiration, diversity in tech and design, some fun little browser games, UI history & the history of the burger menu, CSS variables, CSS scroll snap, figcaption and accessibility, contextual inquiry, next level PWAs on desktop, the “UX community” on Instagram, colorful inspiration, and so much more
Pixels of the Week – December 13, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly resources: CSS full bleed content, a free UX design starter kit, why you should conduct user research, a cool accessibility project, 2 typefaces, testing the “abusability” of your product, CSS margin collapse explained, free icons, 3D art, diverse stock photos and books, 2 advent calendars (accessibility & UXD ), a cute mindmap tool, pure CSS Monument Valley, etc.
A User Research and UX Design Starter Kit
Today I want to share with you my User Research and UX Design Starter Kit. It a 51 pages PDF that contains my user interview cheat-sheet, my templates for product / service concept, a user journey map template, my user flow kit, some mobile, tablet and desktop templates for paper prototyping and a guerrilla usability testing checklist.
Pixels of the Week – December 6, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: 10 NNgroup heuristics illustrated with posters, a UX tools database, teaching remotely, CSS aspect-ratio, a figma course, behavioral science, UX design interview tips, UX metrics, an accessibility buddy, cute manga font, 2020 state of CSS, and a lot of cool design, sound and video inspiration and tools to make your life easier.
Pixels of the Week – November 29, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: a font with greater legibility, 10 CSS layouts, CSS masonry, fonts for coding, dataviz, foldable objects templates, why the HTML/CSS/JS separation is good, black and white design, accessibility & aria explained, CSS clip-path editor, design strategy, beautiful illustrations, a LGBTQ inclusive survey, a design challenge, some cool music, etc.
Enhancing User Experience With CSS Animations
With CSS and JS progress, implementing animations on websites has never been easier. But how do we make sure that our CSS animations and transitions will be meaningful to our users? That they will not be just some annoying “in-your-face” eye candy? That they will not trigger motion sickness and cause accessibility issues to some?
You will find here a transcript with CSS codepen and video examples and LOT of resources to dig further in specific topics. I also published the PDF version of the slides at the end of the article.
Pixels of the Week – November 1, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: typography CSS vertical rhythm tool, a UI challenge generator, balance and composition in UI layouts, UX glossary, user friendly data tables, improving UI with typography, responsive grid design, free icons, usability of state switch buttons, a CSS escape game, some really cool CSS drawings, mobile flow inspiration, a cat keyboard, some photo inspiration, beautiful botanic and animals illustrations , a naked HTML page, etc.
Pixels of the Week – October 25, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: CSS Grid Playground, chatbots, spatial memory in psychology and UX Design, a tool to find CSS values based on the property, some CSS gradient background that you can copy/paste, advice for UX interviews, great packaging, the issues with the video game industry, a beautiful serif font, testing accessibility, CSS clamp() min() and max(), CSS and accessibility, naming conventions, 3D printed bee homes, etc.
Ask me Anything: How can I find my First UX Job?
I get a lot of DMs on Twitter and LinkedIn all from students all over the world who ask me for “advice on how to find their first UX job”. I started writing a “short” answer for them. But let’s face it: I don’t do short answers. So here we are with the “things I wish someone told me when I was finishing my master degree and looking for my first job”. But also the “things I want to say to candidates as a lead designer who screens resumes and conducts interviews”.