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Stef Walter
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UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Product Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher. Chaotic neutral tea & CSS lover. She/Her 🌈
https://stephaniewalter.design/ http://neurospicy.agency/
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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.

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Pixels of the Week – November 30, 2025 Anxiety toolkit, fun ninja cats portfolio & a cool color palettes tool
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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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.

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Screenshot of an interactive N-body simulator interface showing the orbital paths of multiple celestial bodies in 3D space.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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...
Screenshot of a color palette tool showing a palette called Lightning Bug with color sliders, LAB values, color grid, and palette type controls like complementary and triadic, in some old school neumorphic gray buttons style
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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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 💛
Small crocheted Totoro (Gilbi character with white belly patterns, round ears, and a teal leaf on its head for those who don't know it) A small crocheted teal dinosaur with yellow back spikes, held between fingers, crocheted with fluffy yarn A small crocheted yellow dinosaur with purple, white and black picks on its back (the non binary flag) A small crocheted chubby Pikachu (a yellow pokemon with long ears tipped in black, red cheeks, and a curled tail)
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Here you go 🥰
Fluffy chibbi Pikachu in crochet, with cute little red cheeks in front of some plants
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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/
A brown magic circle in crochet with 6 rounds in it Crochet supplies spread around including two balls of yarn in beige and brown, a crochet hook with a pink handle, small scissors, a yarn winder, two crocheted animal parts with ears, a partially completed round piece with black eyes, and two stitch markers. A crocheted evee in progress with a stuffed head and ears attached, separate body and limbs partly filled with stuffing, a crochet hook and small scissors. Parts are spread around where they should be attached The final crocheted evee, with large ears, black eyes, and a fluffy cream-colored collar, sitting on a wooden surface near green potted plants.
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Monday inspiration: Samsy Ninja is a fun portfolio with a cat that you can control with your keyboard
(warning though: it plays sound and might trigger motion sickness and has flashing content)

Have fun: samsy.ninja/
Screenshot of the portfolio, showing a 3D-rendered scene of a glowing neon cityscape with floating red icons and a central cat character facing a large digital screen. The UI is retro-futuristic with Japanese and English text, big lights and buildings with text and animations.
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My curated weekly newsletter is out.
This edition includes articles on animations, screen readers, niche design magazines, bird migration explorer, bad UX date pickers, and accessible navigation. It also touches on my current feelings about the industry.

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Pixels of the Week – October 26, 2025 You don't need animations, screen reader myths & bad UX date pickers for fun
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I also got 80% of some strawberries, and found who got the 20% tax (and they are still blooming?!?). And, I'm not even trying to understand what the nasturtium are doing right now, I think they might be convinced they can reach the sun. Didn't end well for Icarus is all I'm going to say 😅
5 strawberries in a hand. One of them has little round holes in it, from being eaten by an animal. A slug next to a finger for scale. The beast is about as thick as the finger, and 8cm long. Some nasturtium plants grow in total chaos in a planter. One of them attached itself to a tomato stick and is growing towards the sky, about 2m tall.
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Meanwhile on the balcony:
- Pineapple sage blooms and is getting out of control in the DIY plant tower (anyone in Luxembourg wants some? It's nice as herbal tea)
- I got a mini cauliflower
- Raspberries who didn't have any fruits in spring got all the fruits now. It's 10°C...
Make it make sense 😅
Close up on some sage leaves with a grape of blooming red flowers A tower made of plastic round container with plants including salad and a giant sage plant taking all the space A cauliflower plant with big leaves and a tiny little white cauliflower in the middle, smaller than the hand on the left side of the picture A bowl with raspberries in front of a raspberry bush that has still some fruits attached to it
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A couple of other fun things that I tried to cut to test different materials:
- stickers printed on Cricut's transparent paper
- an iron on vinyl for a cute dinosaur
- real leather to make earrings and AirTag holders (this one impressed me a lot)
- Shrink plastic to make a glow in the dark charm
A hand holding a metallic bottle with a yellow to purple gradient. The bottle is decorated with a clear vinyl sticker of a purple water drop, with bold text reading Drink Some Water in the middle. The background shows other similar stickers on a print and cut sheet. A black fabric pouch with a bright yellow iron on vinyl T. rex skeleton illustration. The T.rex looks goofy, small hands, with a speech bubble reading Roar! in uppercase letters. A photo collage with 2 pictures. On the left: a hand blue-green leather AirTag holder, shaped like some leaves. On the right: teardrop leather earrings, made with a green drop with gold swirl patterns and a bigger black drop. A glow-in-the-dark oval plastic charm on black background because the picture is taken without light. The charm features a black illustration of a crow, skull, stars, moon, and leaves.
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Current status: I'm still testing the Cricut Maker 4, so, enjoy some little sticker mat removal ASMR
(I had a small issue in the middle because it's a new mat so it sticks quite well, but the cut is very clean, love it).
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Bad UX World Cup is a contest, to make the worst date picker, ever. I love it.
Some of those examples are pure evil, muuhahaa. The memory game, haaa, pure evil I said!

badux.lol/
Screenshot of a memory game, showing 2 date numbers, 8 and 5, to be picked among a big grid. The month 06 is already filled.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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A nice one for my dataviz and birbs friends: Bird Migration Explorer is an interactive map of migration of different types of bird species. You can explore by birds, location and more.

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Screenshot of the tool, showing the migration map for the American Crow across North America. Markers on the map indicate abundance levels from low to very high, highest in the eastern United States. The left panel includes bird species information, related stories, and map options.
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Explore OKLCH in different 3D volumes to understand better how this color space works. You can create and link multiple colors together to understand their relationship in the space.

www.volumecolor.io/editor
Screenshot of a color picker interface for the OKLCH color space with two swatches on the left. The Red one is selected and shown in a 3D color volume visualization in the center. Adjustment controls for lightness, chroma, and hue on the right are available on the right part of the interface.
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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My curated weekly newsletter is out:
- Why Tim Berners-Lee Gave The Web For Free
- Can AI Generate Alt Texts
- The Oatmeal's Opinion On AI Art
- Cozy Multiplayer Game Messenger
- CSS Alignment Fundamentals
- Accessible Form Validation
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Pixels of the Week – October 19, 2025 Tim Berners-Lee on the free web, the Oatmeal on AI art & some CSS alignment
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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When teaching accessibility for designers, I usually give the example of the form field error, only shown by red color, to illustrate the "don't convey information only with color".
Some people often go "yeah, it's common sense, none does that anymore...
And ecommerce website, with billing details. 4 fields have a red border, 1 field has a green one. And error message at the top reads: error one or more fields are invalid. There is no specific error message next to any field. And, there is no label, the whole form uses placeholders as labels.
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Wix going all "use text marquee to add scrolling effect to content you want to highlight", how about, no? This is an accessibility nightmare, there's a reason the HTML marquee tag was removed.
Also, scroll animations, again, please no. Or at least, respect prefers-reduced motion.
Screenshot of a wix tip, with some repeating banner at the top and bottom that are supposed to move, and the text "use text marquee to add scrolling effect to content you want to highlight" Screenshot of a wix tip, with some page example, and the text "use scroll animations to engage site visitors as they scroll through your site"
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Today's beautiful procrastination is Messenger, a cute cozy multi players game in the browser where you deliver letters

messenger.abeto.co/
A 3D pastel stylized game scene, focused on a character with a ponytail, a messenger bag and yellow shirt standing on a dock, with a boat in the background. She's talking to a NPC, with some text on top of him. The text reads: Package received. Take the mystery letter to Dave at Smelly Falls.
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The Oatmeal's view on AI art is quite interesting. It brings some mediocrity to the world, but also, it can help artists with tasks they find administrative. In the end, it will never have a heart. And that's what makes a difference.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Cartoon illustration with two text boxes. The first says: In my experience, the people who are excited about AI art also happen to be some of the most talentless fucking people I’ve ever met. Below, smaller text reads: They’re middle managers, executives, or marketers whose LinkedIn bio reads, followed by another black box with stylized text: I’m the Chief Brand Officer of User Engagement at DataRectal, but what I really am is a storyteller.
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Let’s debunk the old myth that “accessibility limits color choices.” What limits your choices is a lack of knowledge, and / or creativity. I can't do anything about creativity, but, I can help you with accessibility knowledge.

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Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
October 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Does your work overlap with your passion?
Working in enterprise UX, I never really know how to answer that. Am I passionate about car dealerships, cranes on construction sites, custom forms, finance and banking? Nope.
But I am passionate about solving complex problems. So, it kind of does?
#uxcon
A man standing on stage at a UX conference. Behind him is a large screen showing a Venn diagram with two circles labeled Passion and Purpose overlapping in the center, with text below reading that’s the good stuff.
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I’m speaking at uxcon this week. Participants can get a nice coupon for my UX templates and stickers shop.
If you get FOMO, you can get 15% of everything, with the code UXCONWEEK25 (ends on October 12).

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October 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Vienna's weather wasn't nice to my throat, but the nice people from @uxtweak.bsky.social got the best goodies ever at uxcon vienna, let's hope it will help for tomorrow's talk!!
A small glass jar filled with honey in front of a conference badge reading Stéphanie Walter, Vienna UXCon. The jar label says Not all insights are sweet. Some are sticky. Harvest it all with UXTweak
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM