PODCAST

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.

My practical expert insights and curated content (resources, tools, etc.) on UX research, inclusive design, enterprise UX, accessibility, and more, to help you growth as a designer.

All Episodes

Pixels of the Week – December 22, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/12/22

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: improving UX with user diary studies, the importance of low fidelity, dataviz accessibility, live validation UX, inaccessible websites with a screen reader, UX research roadmap, designing with LLMs, cool scalable icons, a Figma plugin for design logs, gradient generator, overflow clip CSS, alt text decisions, pixel art tutorial, responsive web design free book, etc.

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Improving User Experience with Diary Studies

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/12/20

How we used diary studies to evaluate how users interacted with the product over time, on a large-scale redesign project. This helped us improve the product a lot before final launch. I share my process step by step—from setting up the study to analyzing the results—and shared key takeaways.

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Pixels of the Week – December 15, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/12/15

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: new stickers and -15% coupon on my shop, accessibility quiz for CPACC prep, the myth of "everyone needs to talk to customers", don't skip research, harsh truths for freelancers, AI's transformative impact on web design, accessibility and SEO, a fun game, a list of A Book Apart books, research bookmarks, content patterns, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – December 8, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/12/08

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: data-informed not data-driven design, navigating product discovery with executives, inclusive accessible UX writing, form placeholders are harmful, airport typeface, leader’s guide to accessibility, coding fonts, ads inspiration gallery, Figma typography plugin, free Notion UX research resources and free UX e-books.

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Pixels of the Week – December 1, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/12/01

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: inclusive localizing icons, designing errors for workflow automation, excellent user research emails, how many designs exclude disabled people, the European Accessibility Act explained, types of disability, nature-inspired art, key drivers analysis in research, color palette glossary, pixelarticons, game UI wireframe kit, building focus outlines, AI for brand illustrations, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – November 24, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/11/24

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: user testing templates starter kit, free collaborative whiteboard & wireframe tool, framing effect, how to say no, accessibility misinformation, AI and UX design creativity, a PacCam face-controlled game, bear costume insurance fraud, daily animation with post-it notes, a very expensive Monopoly game, fun emoji rain experiment, alphabet in motion pop-up book, state of JS 2024 survey, image accessibility on Bluesky, using auto layout

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Pixels of the Week – November 17, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/11/17

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: a talk on user diary studies, usability testing starter kit, free wireframing tool, designing for decision making, design meets psychology, overcoming participant recruitment challenges, the future of design and AI and the junior crisis, 3D embroidery sculptures, inclusive mindset workbook, dotted maps generator, free science visual assets, conversations on quality, easy to fix accessibility tips, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – November 10, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/11/10

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: user diary studies, NN/g’s free UX templates, accessible accessibility, mobile app UX, creating research plans, AI prompts to bring creativity, small business accessibility playbook, grayscale Figma plugin, beautifully animated icons, tooltip best practices, disability representation in media, vintage Halloween postcards, multiple fun browser games, ChatGPT search feature, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – November 3, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/11/03

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: metaphors explaining the need for UX professionals, UX memes showing actual user frustrations, tips for category names, UX job reality, indirect user research, UX for Gen Z expectations, improving disability inclusion, user testing Halloween nightmare, animal looking art, minimal app marketplace, AI generated avatars, font pairing tool, color-matching game, and tips font selection tips from designers.

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Pixels of the Week – October 27, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/10/27

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: designing beyond the happy path talk replay, file management Figma library, the sneaking deceptive patterns, UX strategies, managing dangerous user actions, data vs anecdotes, breaking into UX research, ethics of using AI tools, restaurant menu accessibility, a free book on HTML, WordPress alternatives, free fonts, marketing headlines, blockquote & accessibility, Mozilla rebrand, Adobe Max 2024 updates.

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Pixels of the Week – October 20, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/10/20

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: choice is not the enemy, what to do when qual and quant disagree, becoming a better designer, Gmail’s “impossible” problem, creative usage of AI for writers, how to organize user feedback, a dopamine song, a cool fishbowl demo, Gyotaku fish art, free e-books for designers, free illustrations, open source alternative to linktree, the new CSS logo, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – September 15, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/09/15

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: accessible color palettes, digital product vs web design, gamifying UX research findings, public speaking advice, AI for mock tables and charts content, 3D printed boat, LEGO Dune Thumper, email design inspiration, app store screenshot inspirations, a doodle library, productivity app, stippling Figma plugin, dev encyclopedia, a reverse dictionary, accessible accordion components, advanced Figma components tips & tricks.

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Pixels of the Week – September 8, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/09/08

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: My NN/group podcast on accessibility, WCAG 2.2 metro like map by theme, landing your first product design role, captions vs. subtitles, perils of low-cost strategies, avoiding leading questions in user research, pro tips for user interviews, perception of blue vs green, Figma color palettes, a nice mono font, top 10 government design systems, animated favicon generator, Japanese web design, labelling text fields tutorial, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – September 1, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/09/01

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: experts vs. imitators, tabs UX, toasts are bad UX, neurodesign, checkout UX best practices, ecommerce product list UX, the 80/20 accessibility rule, traffic cameras selfies, movies data visualization, book cover archive, buoyancy, styles & variables organizer, pixel emojis set, WYSIWYG Markdown editor, image to mesh gradient, assessing WCAG 2.2 components, 8 Figma tips for UI3, keyboard shortcut support for links, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – August 25, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/08/25

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: on asking users to draw the interface, bring information architecture back, fast food kiosks UX review, how imitation breeds mediocrity, forcing unbaked AI features in products, the discord bot era of design, tools for creatives, animate on path Figma plugin, public domain image search, designer playlist, Netflix categories cheatcodes, marketing ideas, accessible forms, hacking AI for typography, Procreate’s anti-AI pledge?

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Pixels of the Week – August 18, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/08/18

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: responsive mobile tables, designing for errors, behavioral principles in onboarding, psychometric tests and diversity, gestalt principles illustrated, more accessible version of xkcd, best Figma plugins, Figma keyboard shortcuts, 3D design tool, one million screenshots, macOS cursors, starting a UXR consultancy in low maturity countries, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – August 11, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/08/11

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: Cat Quest's fun pirate ships for your cat, mapping the landscape of gen-AI product UX, HTML email design tool, B2B UI principles, demo no paywall homepage concepts, dangerous metaphors in AI, a dungeons & dragons alt text lesson, inclusion in usability testing, astronomy pictures, web design inspiration, fake Blue Screen of Death, free avatars, open source sextoys control library, accessible combobox, blind Barbie, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – August 4, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/08/04

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: collecting UI buttons, value of good design, breaking bad research news, content strategy vs. UX writing, Figma AI tools won't replace us, agency vs product work, kiosks accessibility, European Accessibility Act explained, Wikipedia's first link rule, beautiful illustrations, a native app accessibility handbook and a web performance book, listen to free audio books, design tool tips, landing page inspiration, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – July 28, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/07/28

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: introduction to user interviews workshop, iceberg drawing fun, strategic information architecture, minimum WCAG target size, is agile over, curated design inspiration, free SVG icons, 2D shape interpolation script, react kawaii icons, a directory of design systems, accessibility and typography, impact of European accessibility act, practical SVG book, twitter thread on Figma AI terms, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – July 21, 2024

Stéphanie Walter – Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert,... ·

2024/07/21

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: mobile accessibility toolkit, product design exercises 1.1, AI and the commoditization of design, great design isn’t pixel perfect, bad design is like a virus, generative AI in UX research, 5 UX research mistakes, to hell with the business case, cooking recipe search, handy arrows, deceptive patterns' hall of shame, alternative to google docs, CSS shadow tutorial, etc.

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