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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.

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Pixels of the Week – July 14, 2024

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

2024/07/14

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: how to check and document design accessibility, resources for UX desk research, AI anxiety and design, why toggle switches suck, checkboxes design guidelines, design token ugly mode, the one million checkboxes game, alt text selfies, tech layoff tracker, free geometric patterns, data table design patterns, etc.

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How to check and document design accessibility in...

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

2024/07/10

And a lot of accessibility issues can be already foreseen and prevented in the design phase. From color usage to contrast ratios, text resizing, complex interactions, keyboard navigation and more: save time documenting accessibility in Figma mockups with practical tips and a list of selected tools, plugins, and templates.

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Pixels of the Week – July 7, 2024

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

2024/07/07

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: zenko mapping, accessible color contrast guide, 6 common mistakes in qualitative interviews, five golden questions for conversions, good design in the age of AI, don’t be fooled by Figma AI, scaling taste, the Furiosa movie and disability representation, keyboard simulator, dark mode implementation, quick guide to markdown, Mattel's color-blind accessible games, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – June 30, 2024

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

2024/06/30

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: letter checker for font legibility, interesting cognitive biases, the multisensory experience in food design, in praise of the basics (HTML, CSS), learn grid now container queries can wait, apple's AI strategy, a fun dropping hat AI computer vision experiment, a data viz on mullets in football teams, textures for 3D modeling, leveraging behavioral audits for better outcomes.

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Pixels of the Week – June 16, 2024

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

2024/06/16

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: avoid common portfolio mistakes, UX research tasks AI can help with, presenting research to stakeholders, the workshops diverge-and-converge technique, "research theater", user research explained as storytelling, no web without women, illustrations and ceramics, colorful hydrants, a self-paced degree in UX research, reverse dictionary, Figma product design activity planner, landmark naming tutorial, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – June 9, 2024

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

2024/06/09

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: visual design rules you can safely follow, the worst website, explicit design rules, designing for voice, can you taste design, the power of kawaii design, accessibility in design systems, autocorrected names issue, queer Nigerian artists risking everything, a fun train game, free design stuff, SVG patterns generators, what's new in the web (Google I/O ‘24), :user-valid and :user-invalid, masonry and reading order, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – June 2, 2024

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

2024/06/02

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: accessibility for designer workshop, sensory environment checklist, north start metric, hidden vs. disabled, chatbots vs. humans, personalization without being creepy, new CSS tricks, AI and accessibility, Victorian nipple rings, Figma plugins (OKLCH color variation plugin, vector to 3D) design salary database, accessible text resizing, container queries, Apple and Google's accessibility new features, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – May 26, 2024

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

2024/05/26

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: RICE product prioritization, low fidelity design value, deceptive discounting, is the customer always right, AI helping people with dyslexia, font legibility, generative AI-driven design patterns, wireframe Figma plugin, pattern generator, design inspiration, junior designer job board, hand-drawn icons, free UI sounds, WCAG 3.0 outcomes, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – May 19, 2024

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

2024/05/19

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: why dark mode isn't always better, when to use AI, design is politics, UX research without access to users, storytelling in UX research reports, generative AI in UI/UX design, contact form debate, focus vs accessibility focus, air travel design guide, a fun chimera font, doom scroll, brutalist shapes pack, Figma 101 course, Figma variables tutorial, etc.

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Dark mode & accessibility myth

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

2024/05/14

While dark mode can enhance readability for some users, it can make things worse for others (like users with astigmatism, dyslexia, keyboard users). Consider offering both modes and let user chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible too.

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Pixels of the Week – May 12, 2024

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

2024/05/12

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: a Figma variables tutorial, color meanings across cultures, improving form accessibility, users' mental models, B2B/B2C selling strategies, AI color palette generator, inspiration for push notifications and logos, tutorials on CSS aspect ratios, free illustrations in Figma, white noise generator, cool abstract shapes, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – May 5, 2024

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

2024/05/05

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: celebrating neurodiversity with stickers, Figma handoff helpers, UX maturity, wacky copy, AB/ testing and usability testing, front-end identity crisis, AI won't solve accessibility, nostalgia websites, CSS shapes, AI interaction patterns, Figma tips, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – April 28, 2024

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

2024/04/28

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: cognitive accessibility, designers' coding debate, designing AI interfaces for better choices, books for designer, developer handoff checklist, colors palette visualizer, a guide to CSS container queries, Figma variables tutorial, captioned videos guide, accessible content creation guide, etc.

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Neurodiversity and UX: Essential Resources for...

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

2024/04/25

A list of curated resources to help you design for neurodiversity, from WCAG guidelines to real-world expertise and practical tips for various cognitive disabilities, including Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Autism and ADHD

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Pixels of the Week – April 21, 2024

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

2024/04/21

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: learn about accessibility, confirm or undo pattern, securing a job as a designer, the creator economy trap, RGB color guessing game, logo inspiration, onboarding experience, modern font stack, AI evaluation worksheet, how an ER doctor triages emergencies, skip to content tutorial, accessibility easy tweaks, Penpot 2.0, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – April 14, 2024

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

2024/04/14

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: UX London discount code, accessibility and typography, secondary user research, do products need instruction manuals, survey mistakes, hide or disable content, user-centric navigation redesign, portfolio tips, captions vs subtitles, 1999 fun cursors, 100 Figma tips, death to the follower economy, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – April 7, 2024

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

2024/04/07

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: my next events, design patterns catalogue, Figma and Flexbox /CSS Grid, ethical nudging, easy UX improvements, a guide to microcopy, disability language, CSS monochrome media query, craft beer branding, cool fonts, color palette AI generators, open source alternative tools, disables and aria-disabled attribute, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – March 31, 2024

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

2024/03/31

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: information architecture workshop, designer's role is in the field, redesign tips, how to make a company embrace UX, researcher vs marketers, accessibility foundations, the content creator trap, a fun domino game, UX research calendar, iOS app icons template, gradient generator, a LEGO lovers social network, onboarding inspiration, CSS spider-verse effect, Figma auto-layout, prototyping videos, etc.

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Pixels of the Week – March 24, 2024

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

2024/03/24

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: a workshop on research biases mitigation, UX methods, mico-interactions, card sorting, design rules and guidelines, asking for user pronouns, screen readers and special characters, WCAG 2.2 detective skill set, a song palindrome, a variable font to make football goals, Figma plugins, scroll driven animation, design inspiration, blocking AI crawlers and more.

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Pixels of the Week – March 17, 2024

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

2024/03/17

👉🏻 Curated weekly UX Research, Design & Tech resources: neurospicy stickers, estimating the work beyond the work, Redundant Acronym Syndrome, portfolio advice, personalization UX, navigating B2B design, AI and design systems, accessibility advocate toolkit, the devaluation of front-end, how to interrupt people, Geo Cities GIF search, a guidebook to design better AI experiments, gradient tools, 404 inspiration, hex colors, Figma multi edit, etc.

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