Pixels of the Week – August 21, 2022

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Every day, I share on Twitter and LinkedIn a list of curated articles I read, resources and tools about UX Design, User Research, UI and mobile design, HTML, CSS, the web industry, some process, some inspiration, etc. This is an archive of everything I shared this week.

#Now – what I’m up to

I’m having fun updating but also preparing some brand new exclusive templates for the participants of my “Designing Better Products Masterclass“. I will also be speaking at Inclusive Design 24 about how designers can document different aspects of accessibility to help everyone build better products on Sept 22. It’s a free 24 hours online conference. And there’s a lot of other awesome talks as well.

I also I gave Midjourney a try, but I think AIs are NOT ready for a “dinosaur eating cheese in synth wave style”. I put different versions and variations of that prompt and it gave me the most amazing strange results. Check the twitter thread for all the pictures.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

The tool used on my site to inspect headings. There is also contrast, link text, labels, image text, empty elements and more options to select from the tool

#Accessibility

Tota11y is a cool little bookmarklet to show the most widespread web accessibility errors on a site

Interesting article

#Design

I loved that article and the concept of Gender fuckery for design and beyond: Genderless design is a myth. How to deconstruct the gender binary in design and make space for genderfluidity, by August Tang

#Research #Recruitment

How to Recruit Participants for UX Research (without the Headache), Interesting article by Lizzy Burnam on how to recruit participants for you UX research and what to be careful about.

#Accessibility

#Illustration #AI

If You’re Worried About DALL·E Replacing Illustrators, You Don’t Understand The Power of Illustration. The good old “we will be replaced by robots” debate is back with Dall·E 2 and illustrations. TLDNR: no, but the issue is that people don’t understand what illustrators are capable of. I saw the same claims for UX. Same answer from me: if you think Dall·E 2 will replace UX researchers and designer, you don’t understand what we do ^^

Inspiration, fun experiments and great ideas

#Gift

I know it’s not Xmas yet, but those cute little American food truck wooden cars are so cute, perfect gift for kids (and adults who loves cute little cars)

#Dataviz

Random knowledge, here we come: Visualizing Which Countries Drink the Most Beer

#Arcane #MakingOf

The third episode of the Arcane making of is just amazing. The voice acting, the story boards, the animators recording themselves to see what emotions and body movements can look like for the scene. Wow.

#Art

This is fun and strange at the same time: algorithmically generated artwork

#Inspiration
I love this demo: SCSS/JS kaleidoscope animation by Natalia Szafraniec. Warning: content moving on hover that might trigger motion sickness

Useful tools and resources that will make your life easy

#Cognitive Biases

UX Core, an interesting tool that lists and categorizes 105 cognitive biases and puts them in the context of product related questions with some usage examples.

#Accessibility #Checklist

Accessibility Not-Checklist, a checklist that guides you to make your you haven’t missed anything regarding the accessibility of a site. I like that you can filter by role, for example, what should designer pay attention to?

#Color

Need some inspiration for a color palette? Here you go: Hhhue. As always: many combinations are fun, but if you use any of those on a site, make sure you have enough contrast ^^

#CSS

Feeling nostalgic about old school UIs? Meet System, a CSS library for building interfaces that resemble Apple’s System OS which ran from 1984-1991

#Privacy

Surveillance Self-Defense: a free expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying.

Videos and Conferences

#Accessibility

Automation and Accessibility – What You Need To Know, interesting video on the importance of testing accessibility, but also how QA people often become big accessibility advocates due to the nature of their work by Crystal Preston-Watson

#Conference

UXRConf 2022 Videos Are Now Live! 🎉 You need to create an account on JoinLearners, but it’s totally worth it!

Tutorials

#CSS

Wee, the family selector, aka “parent selector” arrives, meet :has()

#CSS

This is really fun, some fantastic CSS border animation (some might trigger motion sickness though so please use prefers-reduced-motion)

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Published on 21 August 2022

in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)

By Stéphanie Walter