Pixels of the Week – August 11, 2017 by Stéphanie Walter

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Every week I post a lot of my daily readings about Web, UI and UX Design, mobile design, webdesign tools and useful resources, inspiration on twitter and other social networks.

This week’s selection: micro-management and burn out. accessibility guidelines, personas vs job to be done, Gestalt Theory, above the fold myth, UI and UX patterns, performance tools compared, AI design, typography, Progressive Web Apps, UX Heuristics Analysis, FOUT in CSS, Service Workers, Empathy Map Canvas and maintaining symbols in Sketch

You can follow me on twitter to get a dose of links every days.

This week I published something

“Mobile UX: Tiny Screens, Big Adventures” I gave a nice interview on Mobile UX, my journey and my process and one big project failure that taught me a lot 🙂

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Management

Mandatory read for startups, companies and managers ?? What I’ve Learned About Not Micro Managing People

Interesting article

#Accessibility

10 guidelines to improve your web accessibility

#UX

Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done, two complementary methods

#UX #Usability
Finally an article on Gestalt Theory with actual UI examples instead of the panda/triangle logo, yes!!

#UX #Myths

Cute: Above the fold is a myth.

#UI #Pattern

Don’t mistake common UI patterns for best practices, on building a nice browsing experience for users

#Performance

Really interesting comparison: The Difference Between GTmetrix, PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom Tools and WebPagetest

#UX

“As a user” needs to stop, on how to write proper better User Stories

#UX #Travel
Travel sites from a UX perspective, a lot of mistakes indeed :/ (and don’t get me started on flight booking sites ?)

#UX #Heuritics

Heuristic Analysis UX in the design process

#AI

Why we desperately need women to design AI

#Pattern #AtomicDesign

Pattern Variation: an effective design system provides components that are robust, resilient, flexible, and adaptable. Let’s talk about some of the ways in which patterns can be designed for flexibility.