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stephaniewalter

@stephaniewalter@front-end.social

UX Researcher & Inclusive Designer working in Enterprise UX. Mobile Expert, Tech Speaker, Author & Teacher. Chaotic neutral tea, #SVG & #CSS Lover. 🌈

I talk about #design, #UXResearch, #accessibility and #InclusiveDesign mostly
I also draw #illustrations for fun, so you might get drawings, food and plants here.

Here are notes and questions on interacting with me and social media content: https://stephaniewalter.design/faq-frequently-asked-questions/#social-media

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Do you struggle to find a job as a junior designer? Then, I've got something you totally want to bookmark: Open Doors https://www.opendoorscareers.com
It is a Job board, that specialized in offers for junior in UX, Service and UI designers. And, they have a newsletter too!

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Did you know that, the "the customer is always right" saying, dates back from the 1900's, in the very specific context of retail and hospitality? And, the whole sentence was actually “The customer is always right — in matters of taste.”
While customer feedback is important, businesses should balance it with strategic decision-making. Otherwise, you become a feature factory.

Is the Customer always right? It depends by Alexandros Shomper on Medium (5min):
https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/is-the-customer-always-right-it-depends-e875f37a6786

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👉🏻 My curated weekly UX Research, Design, Accessibility & Tech Newsletter is out.

In this week's edition:

  • Why Dark Mode Isn't Always Better
  • 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

https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-of-the-week-may-19-2024/

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Did you enjoy this content? Become one of 2500+ subscribers, and get this content directly in your mailbox! https://stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to-the-blog-updates/

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Awww, @emailoctopus just told me I've reached the 2500 subscribers! It's a big milestone for me, I'm celebrating the fact that this many people trust me enough to welcome me in their mailbox every week. Thank you!! ❤️
https://stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to-the-blog-updates/
https://stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to-the-blog-updates/

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Also, switching from Sendfox to Emailoctopus in January has been a great decision. It made my life so much easier on so many levels. Super happy about the tool so far, highly recommend it if you want to grow a newsletter, test slowly. And, that cute logo!!

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I'm looking for an online tool to offer coaching/ mentoring / 1h consulancy that deals with payment and collects / remits VAT for me. Any idea? (Gumroad does that but it's for goods not services, Patreon too but I don't want subscription I want 1 shot sessions)

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@jonspark I asked stripes already, they check VAT numbers for B2B and they do the calculation for you but they don't do the remittance you still need to do it yourself, and I would love to avoid the paperwork for B2C customers

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Ever heard of anchoring bias, prospect theory, focusing illusion, peak-end rule, planning fallacy, availability heuristic? All those biases were pioneered by Daniel Khaneman, a giant in the fields of psychology and behavioral economics.

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: 7 theories that can help you understand how you think (10min): https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/remembering-daniel-kahneman-7-theories-that-can-help-you-understand-how-you-think
https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/remembering-daniel-kahneman-7-theories-that-can-help-you-understand-how-you-think

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Also, fun story about anchoring that happened at lunch. We ordered deserts. 2 of us ordered black sesame mochis first, the 3rd one ordered a green tea ice. Guess what flavor the ice cream that arrived was? Yup, black sesame. The waiter focused on the first information order, and totally forgot the last one wasn't black sesame.

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If you need to present your mockups in a nice way, you can give device shots a try. It supports phones, tablets, computer, desktop, watches, and home devices.
Resource: https://www.deviceshots.com/

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Teranoptia a typeface without letters that lets you imagine chimeric creatures by typing letters. Love it, I'm having way too much fun with this!!
(via @cassidoo ’s newsletter)

https://www.tunera.xyz/fonts/teranoptia/

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Today is (Global Accessibility Awareness Day). My main message goes to you, all the people, who try to push accessibility forward every single day of the year: self-care first. It's easy to burn out in such exhausting field. Take care of yourselves, my internet friends ❤️

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Anyone working in for an airline or an airport? Or just, air travel enthusiasts?
The Air Travel Design Guide is a guidebook the design of artifacts, spaces, and systems that impact the passenger experience of air travel. Each item has design decisions, effects on passengers and what ifs content. I love the level of design geekiness in here!

Resource: https://airtraveldesign.guide/Guide

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@TimWardCam click on the link and find out?

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Need to learn Figma in 1h? Here you go: an online video course, with 12 fast-paced videos.
Free behind an email paywall.

Figma 101 by Matt D. Smith https://shiftnudge.com/figma/

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You don’t want border:none, you want border-color:transparent to make it easier to theme your buttons for your design system, for consistent transitions and spacing.

3min read by Brad Frost: https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/transparent-borders/
https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/transparent-borders/

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This week, we promote accessibility!
I've decided to have a small sale on the shop, on every resource about accessibility (15%), and stickers on accessibility and neurodiversity (10%).

Accessibility resources on the shop: https://shop.stephaniewalter.design/collection/accessibility

Rainbow of disabilities: cognitive, hearing, learning, mental, physical, visual

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I've also added a nice a 4 poster version a "Minimum Baseline Checklist" to the Web Accessibility Tools for designers. Print it, use it on your desk to for a first level check and avoid accessibility issues later in the process: https://shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/accessibility-interactions-designer-checklist-annotation-kit

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Need to promote accessibility on your laptop? I got a couple of nice stickers, including disability rainbow https://shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/disability-rainbow-stickers and some neurospicy ones: https://shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/neurospicy-neurodivergent-stickers

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Some nice other places to learn:

Need an awesome training? @SaraSoueidan is having a sales on her Practical Accessibility training: https://practical-accessibility.today/ (this is not sponsored, I just loved this training, worth every euros)

Abra has a small free Kick off training on accessibility (mostly targeted towards native mobile apps): https://www.abra.ac/courses/kick-off

For more resources, check my "Accessibility for designer: where do I start guide": https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/accessibility-resources-tools-articles-books-for-designer/

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Wow, 450+ people registered to my talk on accessibility with TestingTime today, I might be a little nervous. Also, I've prepared a surprise for participants: a brand new printable A4 mini checklist! This is going to be a nice session!

https://resources.testingtime.com/accessibility-may-2024?hs_preview=llGRcFrr-162916220951

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@superterrific hi, the organiser will send an email to participants with a link to the recording. I'm not sure about the format. I will ask

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@superterrific Here you go subscribe here and it will be sent once we've collected all resources https://resources.testingtime.com/what-ux-professionals-need-to-know-about-accessibility

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Let’s talk about dark mode and accessibility! There’s a myth that dark mode is good for accessibility, because it improves text readability. It's not always true.

The full article and resources on my blog: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/dark-mode-accessibility-myth-debunked/

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@greg han you are rights, strange. I'll check when I get time to unleash the horrible annoying technical stack to change 2 lines of CSS haha. Adding it to my to-do. Thanks 🙏

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@brawaru when you say wont respect your preference you mean media query on OS preference? Or more like you chose on theme, and when you come back you have to switch again because they didn't keep the preference you chose before?

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