Stef Walter

https://front-end.social/@stephaniewalter

UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Product Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher. Chaotic neutral tea & 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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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniewalterpro/

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Last Notes

2024-09-11 15:30:28

"Boohoo I can't use pastel" and "Accessible color palettes are ugly" are things I hear often. But, it's not true!
If want some inspiration for accessible color combinations, Furquan Ahmad put 50+ ideas in a nice Figma file: https://www.figma.com/community/file/909176640411029401
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/119/161/700/760/341/original/7a7cd076de115a12.png

2024-09-03 10:31:20

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Also
- they get bonus points for the "Please enter your full name." when there's a é in your name. Stéphanie is my full (first) name.
2024, time to start accepting special characters in your forms?
- no field is marked as mandatory, but they all are, so you need to guess that you need to fill them all and that the save is disabled
Gosh, next person who tells me "UX is common sense" gets 2h of me ranting about forms in 2024.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/072/686/265/331/823/original/7b79f4b96129aac3.png

2024-09-03 10:31:07

In case you were still thinking about using a placeholder instead of a label, here's an example of why it's a very bad idea: I have to empty the field to know what was expected.
And if you need more information about placeholders, here's a good place (haha) to start: https://uxdesign.cc/stop-using-placeholders-3b9f362a50d8
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/072/685/564/089/410/original/64f0663dd9f23716.png

2024-09-02 15:00:32

Looking for a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe, serving old school interfaces? Meet Departure Mono. I love it soooo much!
https://departuremono.com/
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2024-08-29 15:00:50

Toasts are Bad UX
"The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention.”. Yup. I blame bootstrap and material UI for making this “better than noting feedback mechanism” popular.
By Max Schmitt “ https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux
https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux

2024-08-22 18:14:01

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Oh, gosh, they now put that at the top of the timeline. Sounds desperate...
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/006/557/602/360/632/original/eb459df73be0415d.png

2024-08-21 17:10:59

I think UX writing is very important. So, let's delve into how I would improve LinkedIn's notification.
Follow me, subscribe, like and send kittens for more amazing chaotic content.
#SimplificationIsAmazing #UXWrittingIsCool #SendMeKittens #AmIDoingTheInfluencerThingRight
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2024-08-21 14:00:35

A browser monoculture leads to a less open and more controlled web, with a big lack of privacy. I’m with @npub1ruv…702v here, I love Firefox, but I still have to open Chrome for many things, especially online video chats and it’s annoying. And sadly, a couple of plugins that don’t work on Firefox anymore.
https://endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

2024-08-20 14:30:04

You know how Netflix unlocks certain categories for certain users and not the other ones? This site lets you get access to all of them. You can finally explore all the Korean series you were missing!
https://www.netflix-codes.com/

2024-08-09 09:00:31

SENDUNE: an HTML email design tool that lets you design your newsletter in a nice drag and drop interface, then export your HTML. Also, it’s open source and you can check the code in github.
https://designer.sendune.com/
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2024-07-15 14:00:22

“Just like G*ogle D*cs, minus the surveillance”, haha. dDocs is a P2P, encrypted and decentralized version of Google Docs, to collaborate in real time, online with other people on documents.
If you want to play with it: https://docs.fileverse.io/
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/112/790/393/368/648/508/original/e8ab385274610a7a.png

2024-06-21 10:09:12

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it's nice it worked for you. In my experience working with B2B products, dashboard, tones of data, etc, even designers who code won't have time / react knowledge to code it themselves. Having someone who is a really good react dev and really good designer is quite rare.
That designer who code used to work when I was working in agencies and it was presentational websites or e-commerce. But for WebApps the stack became so complex that it's a challenge.

2024-06-20 11:45:44

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Communication is the first thing you need. Before we start collaborating we need to start communicating. We need common spaces to communicate and both meet. Tools like Jira tickets, inspect in Figma, etc.

2024-06-20 11:37:11

Alicia Calderón is talking about how she built a framework to help designers and developers collavorate better in her team.
We need good collaboration otherwise the product quality suffers. Great products don't know happen without collaboration. So true!
#UXLondon