{"id":5890,"date":"2021-03-07T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephaniewalter.design\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:16:58","slug":"pixels-of-the-week-march-7-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephaniewalter.design\/blog\/pixels-of-the-week-march-7-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixels of the Week \u2013 March 7, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every day, I share on Twitter<\/a> and LinkedIn<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

#Now – what I’m up to<\/h2>\n

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For my French readers this week, I added some French book to my selection of best UX books<\/a> and I wrote a transcript\/long article on design, performance and the forgotten states<\/a>. The article is in French but the conference slides are in English, also I will talk about this in a meetup in Germany soon, so don’t worry non French speakers that content is arriving in English as well. Last but not least, I organize with my company Maltem the “design month” on social media. So if you follow me in LinkedIn you will see a few cool posts and events. So, next Thursday at 6:30 I’ll be talking about the different flavors of design<\/a>: UX, UI, visual, but also, talk about UX writing and all those fancy new roles and responsibilities. It’s free and I want this to be an open conversation \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

TL;DNR the one you should not miss<\/h2>\n

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#CSS #Gradient<\/p>\n

Wow, Adam Argyle (@argyleink) built this awesome CSS conic gradient demo<\/a>. I love those so much, they feel more natural than linear ones. Also, my hair color is in here, can you guess where?<\/p>\n

Interesting article<\/h2>\n

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#Facilitation<\/p>\n

“How to Handle Dominating Participants in UX Workshops: 3 Tactics<\/a>” by Kate Kaplan on @NNgroup, a list of tools and techniques to make sure everyone can participate and be heard in workshops.<\/p>\n

#EnterpriseUX<\/p>\n

“Experience Design Wake-Up Call: How Bad UX Cost Citi $500M<\/a>.” Sadly, design is still considered as useless for many enterprise products that are developed by devs with zero understanding of user & business needs, I hope that will change.<\/p>\n

#Accessibility<\/p>\n

This is nice: “An approachable guide to doing an accessibility audit using a screen reader<\/a>“, not many articles explain to you the different keyboard shortcuts and what is expected from keyboard navigation ( by Justine Win)<\/p>\n

#Form #UI<\/p>\n

“Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed<\/a>” by Adam Silver (@adambsilver). I could not agree more, as soon as you start using them in complex forms, the placeholder with floating label is quite a mess and confusing for enterprise users.<\/p>\n

#Usability<\/p>\n

“Dangerous UX: Consequential Options Close to Benign Options<\/a>” and interesting article on @NNgroup about error prevention<\/p>\n

#Poll<\/p>\n

“Crossing Divides: How a social network could save democracy from deadlock<\/a>” http:\/\/Pol.is was used in Taiwan to find consensus on Uber regulation. The way it’s designed to avoid trolls & change the information structure is quite interesting<\/p>\n

Inspiration, fun experiments and great ideas<\/h2>\n

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#Design #Fun<\/p>\n

Some\u00a0 Fun for designers: here is your design astrology predictions by Pablo Stanley<\/a> (@pablostanley). As a Libra who loves black and notebooks I can tell you this is 100% accurate! Wait, who said Barnum Effect? ^^<\/p>\n

#Fun<\/p>\n

Ever wondered how an heart shaped iceberg would float? Now you can know with this cute and fun tool: “Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.<\/a>” Created by @JoshData<\/p>\n

#Demo #GSAP<\/p>\n

Ha, I like this little “throw donuts at Homer<\/a>” 3D game made by @sanprietoo<\/p>\n

#Fun #Blob<\/p>\n

A highly satisfying tool I could play all day with: a blob generator. Meet “Rainbow Pudding<\/a>“. I don’t have any VR headsets but I’m curious to know what it looks like with such device. Smiling face with sunglasses<\/p>\n

#Emojis<\/p>\n

I think we all need cute little parrots<\/a> in our Slacks\/Mattermosts and this is THE place to get them (via @michlymich ^^)<\/p>\n

#Video<\/p>\n

What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering?<\/a> Dr Bren\u00e9 Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.<\/p>\n

#Inspiration<\/p>\n

Embroidery is such a creative art, check Narumi Takada (@nrm_takada) on Instagram<\/a> to discover many different ways to think outside that canvas. I love the little steps in the snow.<\/p>\n

Useful tools and resources that will make your life easy<\/h2>\n

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#SVG<\/p>\n

This is really nice: “SVG Repo – Search and find 300.000+ open source SVG graphics fastest way<\/a>”<\/p>\n

#Icons #Figma<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Inclusive Design Illustrations<\/a> are now available as Figma template<\/p>\n

#Accessibility<\/p>\n

We all love checklists, so here is @11YProject’s accessibility checklist<\/a> to check your WCAG compliance, it’s easy to read and beautifully designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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