Dear museums, if your ticket booking system is so crappy and inaccessible that it takes me more time to book online than to queue at the counter, what's the point? Placeholders as labels, mandatory fields not marked, disabled copy pasting for emails, refresh in the middle and data loss, gosh...

I discovered latino brunch. I don't know if this is a thing or if that restaurant invented it, but I can never go back. Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁

I would like to remind you that the only reason I know that 10 feet approximately equals 3 meters, is because of Dungeon and Dragons. Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁 But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.

If an organization wants to learn, there are ways to become faster and more effective. But if you aren't going to do good faith design research to inform decisions, just don't bother. Just ship what you want to ship and forgo the time faffing about with "synthetic users."

Wow the amount of AI art in shops for Xmass is just yuuuurk. It's inconsistent. It shows. There's no effort, like half of the stuff is blurry pixel mush. It's sad. And I know most marketing teams will go "it's good enough". But nope. It's sad. And customers are already annoyed at it.

Oooh look I wasn't saaaaad or stressed, I just needed to lay in a giant pool filled with balls, surrounded by soft pastel light and music 😅 And nice art.

When you are tired and read "fetish" instead of "festlisch" on an advertisement for clothes in German. Honestly, both worked. 😹

#whamageddon damn it I got pawned in a small market. Made it to 14 days! Is anyone style playing?

Hii, no weekly newsletter (or UX related posts) for the next 2 weeks, because, holidays, yeahy. Meanwhile enjoy some cute coffee with a rainbow and have a nice end of the year 🌈 (I might share some food and fun pictures here though)

It's been a super busy week that can be summarized into "the personas they teach you at school don't really work in enterprise UX, but with a mix of task analysis, journey mapping, knowledge gap and system mapping you can create something helpful".

If you need some social icebreakers, for friends, or for lovers, you can flip through those 2 decks of cards, and take turn answering the questions. Lovely idea. www.datenightquestions.com/

Place Cats is a service to get cute images of cats, as placeholders for your project. Miaou yes!

Pantone’s Color of the Year Sounds About White! Design is never neutral, and the choice of Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 signals a bigger problem...

My curated weekly newsletter is out, including reflections on why you can't make something accessible for everyone and deceptive UX patterns. Plus: design fundamentals, a retro-futurist UI component library, flags dataviz, and webzines for your inspiration! 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

The best tech innovation in the last couple of years is not AI, it's the "undo" button when you just sent an email and noticed you forgot the link/attachment. Sorry not sorry, it saved me so many times.

I wonder if there's a cop show with an episode where they find hair in the hat of the person, think it's a suspect, bring the person in and it turns out it's just the person who crocheted the hat. Because gosh I think all my crochets have at least 1 hair of me in them 🤣

Mip mip Friday font inspiration for public transportation lovers: FranSans is a nice monospaced display font that is inspired by the destination black and yellow displays that you can find in the rail service in San Fransisco. It’s really cool! emilysneddon.com/fransans

Let’s talk deceptive patterns, meet the roach motel: when it’s easy to sign up, but extremely difficult to cancel. The sad goal, is to make it so tiresome for the users, adding friction and cognitive fatigue, that they give up on trying to cancel, and keep paying. by @toddl.dev.dev

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone. Passing all the WCAG2.2 level AA criteria doesn’t automagically make your website accessible for everyone. Because it’s about people. And people are complex with different needs, using different technologies, etc.

After "I want to put parenthesis within parenthesis" I'm happy to report I achieved the "I need quotes into quotes" level of writing inception. Yeaaaah. Do I get a medal or something?

Virtual Zine Library: a collection of hundreds of free downloadable PDFs and links to online readable zines! You can browse by categories. www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/virtual-zine...

For my dataviz and flag enthusiast friends, here's a project that analysis flags around the world, their colors, symbols, layout, changes, and so much more (too bad the contrast is meh though, hard to read white on light gray). By Ferdio flagstories.co/

I envy the people who manage to drink their coffee hot and their tea not overly brewed. No amount of reminders and alarms in the world is able to solve this for me. I wonder if someone has invented a tea cup with a timer that removes the leaves from the water automatically after 2min30?

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened. An interesting essay by Christopher Butler, on, how even if anyone can build a page with a CMS, or ask AI for a design, most people don’t have the fundamentals for good design...

Three types of UX-research workshops help teams understand UX research, build empathy for users, and apply insights to design concepts: research alignment, empathy workshops and research application workshops Workshopping UX Research with Stakeholders (15min) by Kate Kaplan (NN/G)

Tired of liquid glass already? Meet cosmic UI, a fun set of futuristic very components, with a cyberpunk look and feel. (to be clear, they have many accessibility issues, this is more for inspiration and for the joy of having something fun than for using in actual projects) www.cosmic-ui.com/

It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️‍🔥 Check out what's hidden behind the first door. htmhell.dev/adventcalendar

My weekly newsletter is back from a short break with content on managing anxiety in tech, why accessibility boosts ecommerce, and the risks of AI erasing local knowledge. Also, a fun color palette generator, untranslatable words, and celestial physics fun. 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Haha, I think the next time someone asks "how do you get so much done and so many ideas" I will go "I'm a mix of queer audacity and neurodivergent delusion" which means, I'm convinced I can do anything, will start, and might or might not finish the project, at some point. This should be my bio.

“Design + more design = pixel perfect but likely ineffective work. Design + broad exposure = effective work that lands” A nice article by Hardik Pandya on how designers need to gain exposure from PMs, engineers, sales, users, researchers, to get out of an echo chamber.

The N-Body Simulator lets you explore how multiple objects move under gravity, using real physics equations. It visualizes complex orbital paths, like the famous three-body problem, and offers different methods to simulate long or short-term motion in space. trisolarchaos.com/?n=3&m=4.7,1...

Black Friday savings for those of you who chose to support small businesses: get UX templates by yours truly with your 2025 budget and use them in 2026! Get 20% off everything in my shop with the code BF2025 before December 3: shop.stephaniewalter.design/

"There’s no limit, Alt text should be as long or short as it needs to be, just succinct and correct. Just not super long." Happy that this gets debunked by Chris Yoong because I've seen it again in yet another "white paper" (maybe written by AI, who knows?) chrisyoong.com/blog/the-100...

Okay, this is fun, and brings me back to some neumorphism nostalgia: a fun color palette generator, that lets you play with different color spaces, and build different palettes type colorpalette.pro/?color=lab%2...

Anxiety Toolkit is an open source collection of tools and exercises to help you manage your anxiety. And friends, do we need that with the current state of our industry. I personally really like the “5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste” one.

No Pixels of the Week at the moment due to sick leave. Please enjoy some crochet instead. I discovered that indeed, I do not know how to count. But also, it helps relax. So I guess I'm joining the people in tech who crochet club now 💛

I will never judge what or who you put in your body. But I will absolutely judge if, you decide to still use a font that doesn't provide the diacritics (é, à, etc.) and those letters defaults to another font in the middle of your sentences. 😭

I'm in the market for a weighted blanket. I've read it must be 10% of your weight but I don't know much about those. Does anyone have any experience with them, tips on how to choose one?

Okay people I need you to stop making fun of the Apple socket. I had a socket on my Nokia 3310 and it worked well to protect it. It's called vintaaaage okay? (Obviously being sarcastic here just in case but I did indeed have the socket).

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