My curated weekly-ish online newsletter, where I share interesting articles, tools, and resources I found during the week. You can expect content about UX, design, user research, accessibility & tech, but also some processes, some inspiration, sometimes books, and a couple of videos and podcasts. Also, don’t forget to, subscribe to the newsletter to get notified, you will get the weekly links directly in your mailbox, and be notified when I publish other articles.

Now: what I’m currently up to

I’ve been exploring interface animations as a way to document interactions for developers. Check the small video promoting Phase on LinkedIn. I’m also still super sad that they removed my FigPal, so, I’ve decided to print my own little FigPal sticker sheet (and made some for my friends and colleagues). I won’t sell them, but it was also a nice way to try to make my first kiss cut sticker sheet. I also love that it inspired Stefánia to do the same!! I might explore this in the future for my sticker shop. And yes, I still need to put my Coffee / Tea because murder is frowned upon stickers in the shop, but, Payhip is a mess for variations, so I haven’t found the best technical solution yet.

Last but not least, regarding this “newsletter” format: some people reported it was hard to read with big paragraphs of text in bullet points. I’ve removed the bullet points for now. Let me know what you think (by DM or via contact form)

Most popular content this week

Bring out your design dead! Design (and UX design) had been reported dead, over and over again. At this point, I think we need to involve the Winchesters boys! Ryan Rumsey created a growing collection of the articles, reports, and hot takes declaring the many deaths of design. And, I can’t stop laughing at this!!

Interesting articles that caught my attention

AI is the future of accessibility (9min) AI is already improving accessibility: live captions, smart navigation tools, and apps that describe the world for blind users. If we don’t help shape its future, it will keep repeating the same exclusions we’ve been trying to fix for years. By Karl Groves

The cognitive cost of convenience (7min) We keep designing tools that make everything faster and easier. But in doing so, we’re also removing the little moments that help people learn, explore, and build real understanding. Great UX should guide, but also challenge, to build real confidence and understanding. by Michael F. Buckley

Usable Chat Interfaces to AI Models (9min) an exploration of different UI for chat interfaces, to make them more user friendly, especially when there’s a lot going on in the conversation. By Luke Wroblewski.

Enshittification as a matter of taste (5min) Enshittification happens when someone without taste or empathy makes the calls, putting profit over people. We need folks who can call that out and say, nope. By Dave Rupert

A Note About WCAG Conformance Levels (5min) a small summary to help you understand what A, AA and AAA means: what you need to do to achieve it, which users it’s helping and some examples of requirements.

Curiosity cabinet: non-design/tech rabbit holes I enjoyed

tv.garden an online tool to watch free, publicly available IPTV streams around the world. You can navigate with the glob, or the search. It’s quite fun, especially if like me, you don’t have a cable tv subscription.

Inspiration: fun experiments, beautiful art, and great ideas

ShaderGPT A nice soothing tool to start the week: GLSL shaders built with natural language, that interact with your mouse.

404 Magazine: a zine at the intersection of UX writing, computer and poetry, by Andy Welfle. This is absolutely my vibe.

Useful tools & resources

Calligraphr a tool to create your own custom fonts. It offers a fun character randomization option, to simulate true handwriting. And, ligatures, of course!

designtokens.fyi an online dictionary to help you demystify the language around design tokens: component, json, primitive, priority, and more than 30 terms are defined.

Tutorials

Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout (13min) CSS multi column layout has nicely evolved over the last couple of years. With better browser support, you can combine it with container queries t build nice modern layouts. A very cool tutorial by Andy Clarke.

Latest news in the industry

You Can Still Read NASA’s Deleted “First Woman” Graphic Novels (Update) internet is being scrubbed to remove any contribution from women in STEM, but, you can still download volume 1 and 2 of the amazing “first woman” graphic novel on other sites.

NYC subway map gets first full redesign since 1979 – Gothamist (2min) and, friends, this map is nice!