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• Post #4249760

  Current status: waiting for my friends to level up with me on the book series because I have 150 other memes I want to share but I don't want to spoil 😅 IWKYM!

• Post #4022854

  I absolutely love that as an adult I'm part of many book cults, including one with a talking cat shooting magic missiles, and another one where my friends want to gather for a weekend that we shall spend reading the next book in the Massverse while also talking about what happened in the Empyrean 😅

• Post #3690109

  A couple of table top game designers came together to build an open-source colour identification system that is colorblind friendly. It uses symbols and color theory. For example: the symbol for green is a mix of the one for yellow and blue. I could totally see those engraved on little wooden tokens for board games for example. https://colorsym.com/#

• Post #3671881

  What makes people happy? A dataviz, based on a 2017 experiment where they asked 10000 to track experiences that made them happy. The classification is quite interesting. You can also explore people's happy moments on each island. https://pudding.cool/2026/02/happy-map/

• Post #3628345

  Sad truth: we are making the web accessible for AIs, not for people. Some sites now offer a text version for LLMs, but still skip real accessibility needs like proper heading structure, landmarks that screen reader users need. https://www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/

• Post #3554442

  Our CSS isn't opinionated enough. @craigabbott@a11y.info argues that the CSS “class only” approach is nice, but it also makes it easy to build things that are not accessible. For example: make a div look like a button. He proposes to style the HTML tags and ARIA attributes directly (like button or [aria-expanded="true"]). This way: developers can’t get the visual, without the proper semantics. Accessibility becomes a side effect of doing it right. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/bl...

• Post #3470012

  Want to test your accessibility knowledge? Dave Davies built this free accessibility quiz to help you. You get 128 hand written questions across WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML and contrast. And for each, an explanation for each answer https://a11y.quest/

• Post #3435140

  I don't think the lady in the shower at the pool was ready for my hair to be bleeding pink and yellow and my shampoo foam be all colorful. At least the kid next to her was mesmerized 😅 Life as a pool mermaid haha.

• Post #3334452

  AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. @annaecook@mastodon.social calls out the fantasy that AI or generative UI will save us where UX has “failed”. AI does not fix bad or inaccessible systems, it exposes and multiplies the issues that were already there. When the foundation is wrong, no layer on top can fully compensate. The way to make your website “AI ready” is still the same work we’ve been doing for years: robust hierarchy, semantics, and accessible design systems. http...

• Post #3042743

  A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Dave Smyth about my design process: from La Carte Blanche to enterprise UX, why personas don't always work, and getting access to users as a non-negotiable. 👇 https://davesmyth.com/interviews/stephanie-walter

• Post #3042742

  Since token price is increasing, should I write an article on how to do qualitative data analysis, the good old fashion way using data coding and indexing? Just, you know, in case, we have to go back to doing this manually? Or is this too academia UX? I noticed I have a super detailed example, but never published anything about it.

• Post #3042741

  My curated weekly UX Research, Design, Accessibility & Tech Newsletter is out: - My Project Definition Framework - Interview on Design Process and Enterprise UX - Being an Engineer and Artist in the AI Era - Claude Design Is a Prototyping Tool Not a Design Systems Tool - Why Neurodivergent People Love Axolotls - A Pez Dispenser and a "How Bicycles Work" Interactive Explanation - And an Inner Potato Quiz 👉🏻 Newsletter article on my blog: https://stephaniewalter.design/b...

• Post #3042739

  Happy "let's pretend we care about queer people to get their money" month. 🌈

• Post #3042738

  Fontastic Space is a free tool to help you find the mathematically optimal font pairing. It give you pairing score on multiple categories (including anatomical comparison of ascender, cap height, x-height and more) https://fontastic.space/

• Post #3042737

  This one is for my enterprise UX folks: I talked about Designing Inclusive Enterprise UX at If U Seek, the Useberry podcast. I shared how we deal with complexity and the trade-offs we sometimes have to do on data heavy interfaces while still prioritizing accessibility whenever we can. I also explain how we run user research for complex busy workflows and tools people use on a daily basis.  I hope people who work for B2B complex products will relate to this. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0...

• Post #2998901

  Seriously how do you expect me to get interested in your TV shows when I have the most amazing audio books to read?!? I haven't been super into any TV for ages. I don't know why, I get super bored with most super fast. Meh.

• Post #2578469

  Here’s how to instruct a LLM to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (by @eric). Don’t instruct the LLM use the full ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) because it was build as a showcase and some of those code examples are unreliable. Do reference the pattern name, “about this interactions” and “keyboard interaction” sections, to, I quote “help to push a LLM towards only slurping up the salient bits.” https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-how-to-instruct-a-llm-to-reference-the...

• Post #2557150

  Morning designer debate: when you document components or design systems in Figma, do you prefer to group things with frames or sections, and why? I tend to like sections because you can name them, but then I have inception of 4 levels of sections. I'm curious about how other people do it

• Post #2519019

  Monday procrastination and fun demo: Robin Payot recreated the ocean part of Zeldan the Wind Waker using Three.js. I am very bad at this, but it's both fun and impressive. https://wind-waker-threejs.com/

• Post #2512706

  How does one convince all their colleagues to watch Severance and read Dungeon Crawler Carl so that said colleagues understand when one asks if the team will get a Melon Party, and why one wants to shout "THIS IS AN OUTRAGE" when told, they won't get any? #AskingForAFriend

• Post #2314269

  10 UI Patterns That Won't Survive the AI Shift, according to Taras Bakusevych Some interesting examples of how AI can help with UI patterns around complex data handling, filling content, finding things, and customization of the content targeted toward a specific user. I wouldn’t go as far as “replace”, though, but I get the need for a catchy title, hehe. https://uxdesign.cc/10-ui-patterns-that-wont-survive-the-ai-shift-002cb9b853ae

• Post #2273841

  Today's beautiful inspiration: Camila Nogueira is an illustrator artist and muralist from Porto, with a colorful bright neon style. I really love the vibe of those beautiful surreal worlds. https://camilaillustration.pt/

• Post #2265624

  Sometimes, you stumble upon someone’s work that deeply resonates with you: the style, the content, the imagery, the themes. That’s what happened when I discovered Chrissy's work. She's a German illustrator and artist who explores the human psyche and the madness of everyday life, between chaos and sensitivity. And, I think her art will speak a lot to neurodivergent people. Her portfolio and shop: https://www.chrizzly-arts.de/kunst She also has more work on her instagram: https:/...

• Post #2161912

  Some Friday fun: designers, what's the wackiest request you ever got about colors? I'll go first: new project, new identity, an external consultant requested that the project uses her consulting company's brand colors, because "I already have 250 slides and don't want to have to redesign them".

• Post #2161911

  My curated weekly UX Research, Design, Accessibility & Tech Newsletter is out: - What A UX Strategy Is And Why Teams Need One - Craft Vs AI Convenience In Design - Colorful Surreal Illustrations - Exquisite Flora And Fauna Embroidery - Figma GIF And Video Exporter Plugin - A Cat Chrome Plugin To Stop Your Doomscroll - A Fun Unicode And Typography Explorer 👉🏻 Newsletter article my blog: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-of-the-week-may-3-2026/

• Post #2161910

  As a Jira user, I want an AI chatbot that gives me wacky prompt examples, so that I can bring an even bigger mess to our backlog. Yeah, this is, exhausting.

• Post #2161909

  Little reminder that access for disabled people brought us a lot of innovations and technologies that benefit everyone: electric tooth brush, ramps, text to speech and voice assistants, Velcro, audio books, touch-less and automatic doors, subtitles and captions, etc. Great video by Jenni Pettican https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fjqnl9WwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fjqnl9WwU

• Post #2161908

  Tool of the week: if you are tired of cluttered text editors with 150 options you don't need, you are going to love Blank Page. It's a very simple (this is positive), distraction free, text editor in the browser, write, share, enjoy. https://blank.page/ (by René Galindo and Mo Boudra)

• Post #2161907

  Design isn’t the pretty pixels output. It is the slow, messy work of understanding context, constraints, and real needs. And then shaping a solution that actually fits. AI can fake the form, not the thinking. And when it’s faked, the product that looks polished, ambitious, and impressive at first glance, begins to unravel the moment you actually use it. Great thoughts by Karri Saarinen Output isn’t design (5min) https://linear.app/now/output-isn-t-design https://linear.app/now/output-isn-t-d...

• Post #2161906

  Am I the only one who feels like the Duffer Brothers took Vi's character design, gave her some of Jinx's tinkering personality and voilà, Nikki Baxter, from the new Stranger Things anime?!