Weekly Newsletter — February 23, 2025
It’s time for another round of the Pixels of the Week, your curated weekly UX, design and tech resources!
My top 3 picks of the week
- OKLCH, explained for designers (6min) I’m really looking forward to more support in design tools, because I like the possibilities of building palettes, with less tokens, while keeping contrast ratios for accessibility. Great introduction by Samuel Wong (also check the OKLCH playground to understand the options)
- Flexbox Labs a visual tool that helps you create layouts using CSS Flexbox. I like such sandbox tools where you can play around without writing code. I think it’s important for designers to at least understand what flexbox can do. Also, it’s quite close to the Figma auto-layout we got used to and the Penpot Flex Layout. Created by Praise Ogunleye
- Chinese app design: weird, but it works. Here’s why an explanation of the power of the super apps (WeChat and all of those other apps that cluster everything you need in 1 giant super app), with some roots into collectivist culture, a community that prioritizes the needs of a group over the individual.
Want more articles, resources, and tools? I have plenty more links that caught my eye this week, find them on my blog:
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What I’m up to
My students asked me for resources to help them build a color palette, so I decided to share this list here as well, because every beginner — whether they’re my student or not — deserves guidance: Color Theory & Palette — Resources and Tools
I’ve also talked about design and accessibility at the Smashing Meet this week. If you attended the meetup (or didn’t), here’s the content of my talk with all the links mentioned in the slides: A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions And, if you want the longer version of that content, with exercises, tips, checklists, I’m running a new session of my Accessibility for Designers workshop, online, in June. Grab you early bird ticket at $255
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