Oh apparently you can get a custom domain while keeping your current .social one bsky.social/about/blog/4... Anyone know if there's a redirection from social to domain? I got the old one on slides and other bios for example

Gosh, I end up blocking so many followers. Sorry not sorry I have zero interest in an account with 67k followers and 89k followings just because they did some growthacking. Also, bot accounts, gosh, nope, bye. I want a place to chat, share and interact with humans. 🤷‍♂️

I was told to rest. So I learned how to crochet an evee after the fun Pikachu live session a couple of weeks ago with @morganepeng.bsky.social I officially hate MR4 😅 The pattern: 53stitches.com/eevee/

Sentences I never thought I would say one day: I hate magic rings of 4. 😅

biblically accurate cat

Huge parts of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too. AI systems rely mostly on Western, English-dominant data, excluding oral, Indigenous, and low-resource languages.

Okay folks that's it, I'm turning Vampire Diaries into a hydration drinking game. Get tea, spice latte, water, any hydration beverage. Everytime they drink - a beer: 1 sip - strong alcohol: 2 sips - blood: 3 sips Damon kills someone: 5 sips (yes even if the someone might / will revive) 🧛‍♀️🩸

Little reminder that an inaccessible website means lost customers, and lost revenues. From the article: "Research shows UK businesses collectively lose £17.1 billion a year because shoppers using assistive technology abandon websites that don’t work for them...

With more people around here now I wonder, is there a tool were you feed your Twitter following and it tries to find them here? I would like to see if some of my mutuals arrived here and I missed them.

Me "ho I became very good at predicting the next song in my playlist" Also me "oh yeah I forgot to click the shuffle button". Haaaa.

A read-only text field is focusable. And confusing to users. If you add `tabindex="-1"` and/or `pointer-events: none`, admit it’s wrong and make it plain text instead. If you use it anyway, style it so it’s clear (good luck). Here are my shitty styles: adrianroselli.com/2019/09/unde... #UX #HTML

@trinamp.bsky.social hello welcome to the new place!!!

Monday inspiration: Samsy Ninja is a fun portfolio with a cat that you can control with your keyboard (warning though: it plays sound and might trigger motion sickness and has flashing content) Have fun: samsy.ninja/

My curated weekly newsletter is out. This edition includes articles on animations, screen readers, niche design magazines, bird migration explorer, bad UX date pickers, and accessible navigation. It also touches on my current feelings about the industry. 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Meanwhile on the balcony: - Pineapple sage blooms and is getting out of control in the DIY plant tower (anyone in Luxembourg wants some? It's nice as herbal tea) - I got a mini cauliflower - Raspberries who didn't have any fruits in spring got all the fruits now. It's 10°C... Make it make sense 😅

Halloween is basically here and I'm sitting here like: 🧙‍♀️✨ Buy some spooky stuff! ✨🧙‍♀️

Current status: I'm still testing the Cricut Maker 4, so, enjoy some little sticker mat removal ASMR (I had a small issue in the middle because it's a new mat so it sticks quite well, but the cut is very clean, love it).

It's Friday, here comes some inspiration. If you follow my content, you know I have a soft spot for beautiful printed magazines. Itay Dreyfus created Niche Design Magazine, a self-published project exploring where design flourishes in the age of sameness. You can get a digital, and a paper version.

Bad UX World Cup is a contest, to make the worst date picker, ever. I love it. Some of those examples are pure evil, muuhahaa. The memory game, haaa, pure evil I said! badux.lol/

Common misconceptions about screen readers: - not only blind people use screen readers - not every user use it in the same way - not all screen readers work the same way. - do not build a screen reader specific version of a website or app, instead make your content accessible for everyone.

A nice one for my dataviz and birbs friends: Bird Migration Explorer is an interactive map of migration of different types of bird species. You can explore by birds, location and more. explorer.audubon.org/home?layersP...

Current status: so, so tired. As in, "why do I even bother taking time for this". The issue is that, the "this" is too many things, from my newsletter, to posting on social media, to even, reading about tech those days and beyond. Where do people find energy at the end of the year?

Damn it's that time of the month again... You know when it all becomes crunchy yurk and you can't get a cup of tea without crunch... It's time to put the vinegar back in the kettle. Raah this water 😭

Animations can make the interface feel predictable and faster, but also when done wrong, they do the opposite: make it feel slow, unpredictable, annoying. Emil Kowalski gives a couple of tips on how to strike the right balance.

I've been playing with a Cricut maker 4 (thanks to @minimachines.bsky.social), I have to admit, not having a software lag on Mac, is a blast. The Silhouette one is a nightmare. But, not having the ability to lock layers, haaa, why Cricut, why. So, Cricut users, any tips I need to know?

Explore OKLCH in different 3D volumes to understand better how this color space works. You can create and link multiple colors together to understand their relationship in the space. www.volumecolor.io/editor

Sidenote: I'm just happy to have a place again to post silly things that is not as serious as LinkedIn. Thank you folks for being around. Truly.

I know it's not funny, but, gosh, the Louvre jewelry heist is amazing. I will absolutely use this whenever our DnD master goes "yeah that's a bad plan, it can't work". They used a ladder, on the side of the building, left with scooters. This is absolutely a DnD plan. How many nat 20 did this take?

My curated weekly newsletter is out: - Why Tim Berners-Lee Gave The Web For Free - Can AI Generate Alt Texts - The Oatmeal's Opinion On AI Art - Cozy Multiplayer Game Messenger - CSS Alignment Fundamentals - Accessible Form Validation 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

People who grew up in the US I have an important question: did your schools really let you organise bikini car wash to collect money for the sport team when you were teenagers? Or is this just a teenager show trope? I need to know 😅

As a goodread user, I need your scanner to let me upload pictures instead of opening the camera directly, so that I can find books that were recommended on Instagram and for which I took a screenshot of the lady holding it. Thank 😅

Wow, living in a country where you need to fill an online form, to request your tax adjustment form, and get a "we will send you the paper form within 4 business days" is, very 1990. Why they can't, they send me the form as PDF and I print it is beyond me. Digital transformation is very slow.

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the web for free: “I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale (...) In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free.”.

When teaching accessibility for designers, I usually give the example of the form field error, only shown by red color, to illustrate the "don't convey information only with color". Some people often go "yeah, it's common sense, none does that anymore...

I used to joke about the fact that a UX researcher job is 20% research with users and 80% of other stuff, around the research to prepare, analysis, etc. Apparently, same for development. By Dave Rupert Many years on the job and I still don't get it. (5min) daverupert.com/2025/09/you-...

Wix going all "use text marquee to add scrolling effect to content you want to highlight", how about, no? This is an accessibility nightmare, there's a reason the HTML marquee tag was removed. Also, scroll animations, again, please no. Or at least, respect prefers-reduced motion.

Today's beautiful procrastination is Messenger, a cute cozy multi players game in the browser where you deliver letters messenger.abeto.co/

The Oatmeal's view on AI art is quite interesting. It brings some mediocrity to the world, but also, it can help artists with tasks they find administrative. In the end, it will never have a heart. And that's what makes a difference. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

. @jaredcunha.bsky.social explains that LLMs can lower the burden of writing useful alt text for images, with the right prompting: state you want an alt text, give context, tell what to emphasize, the length. I’m curious if anyone has experience with this, and how it went? Was the alt text any good?

Friday fun: a little reminder that, 15 years ago, before we had AI generation, people were creating wacky nightmarish fun 3D rending videos of cows becoming spiders, and this belongs in a museum. Have a nice day 😁 (Also trigger warning: spiders) youtu.be/FavUpD_IjVY?...

Let’s debunk the old myth that “accessibility limits color choices.” What limits your choices is a lack of knowledge, and / or creativity. I can't do anything about creativity, but, I can help you with accessibility knowledge. stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

Excel is a design and UX research tool. You can now fight @morganepeng.bsky.social and me on that. 💜 #uxcon2025 #uxcon #EnterpriseUX

Let's play a game of "is it PowerPoint or a meditation app I'm about to open'". Surprise 🫢

Does your work overlap with your passion? Working in enterprise UX, I never really know how to answer that. Am I passionate about car dealerships, cranes on construction sites, custom forms, finance and banking? Nope. But I am passionate about solving complex problems. So, it kind of does? #uxcon

"One size fits one", I love this quote from Bryce Johnson's talk on adaptive and inclusive controllers for video games. But to build this, we indeed need to think beyond our own assumptions. And recognize that not everyone can use the controller with 2 hands. #GameAccessibility #uxcon

I’m speaking at uxcon this week. Participants can get a nice coupon for my UX templates and stickers shop. If you get FOMO, you can get 15% of everything, with the code UXCONWEEK25 (ends on October 12). 👉 shop.stephaniewalter.design/

Vienna's weather wasn't nice to my throat, but the nice people from @uxtweak.bsky.social got the best goodies ever at uxcon vienna, let's hope it will help for tomorrow's talk!!

My curated weekly newsletter is out: - OKLCH Gradients - Screen Readers And AI Ethics - Boring LLMs Are The Way To Go - Mobile Web Inspiration - European Product Alternatives - Brutalita Font Editor - Accessible Flip Card Tutorial 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing. Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy." But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.