Stef Walter
@stephaniewalter.bsky.social
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/
https://stephaniewalter.design/ http://neurospicy.agency/
New followers/ year so reminder: hi, I'm a queer feminist woman with invisible disabilities who works in tech and posts about UX, accessibility, food and her craft.
If you have an issue with any of feel free to unfollow or block me 👋
And I make stickers shop.stephaniewalter.design/get-some-sti...
If you have an issue with any of feel free to unfollow or block me 👋
And I make stickers shop.stephaniewalter.design/get-some-sti...
Get cute stickers
Cute home made waterproof stickers, with different effects (holographic, glitter stars, dots, broken glass).
shop.stephaniewalter.design
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New followers/ year so reminder: hi, I'm a queer feminist woman with invisible disabilities who works in tech and posts about UX, accessibility, food and her craft.
If you have an issue with any of feel free to unfollow or block me 👋
And I make stickers shop.stephaniewalter.design/get-some-sti...
If you have an issue with any of feel free to unfollow or block me 👋
And I make stickers shop.stephaniewalter.design/get-some-sti...
Reposted by Stef Walter
One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.
Did we forget years of usability best practices, for the sake of AI hype?
I really like how @vitalyf.bsky.social explains it, in his Design patterns for AI interfaces course (and tend to agree):
“I think that very often we kind of get a little bit too excited about the hype again...
I really like how @vitalyf.bsky.social explains it, in his Design patterns for AI interfaces course (and tend to agree):
“I think that very often we kind of get a little bit too excited about the hype again...
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Did we forget years of usability best practices, for the sake of AI hype?
I really like how @vitalyf.bsky.social explains it, in his Design patterns for AI interfaces course (and tend to agree):
“I think that very often we kind of get a little bit too excited about the hype again...
I really like how @vitalyf.bsky.social explains it, in his Design patterns for AI interfaces course (and tend to agree):
“I think that very often we kind of get a little bit too excited about the hype again...
It's the end of the year, budgets are tight, but you can still learn design and UX for free.
Check my curated list of 10+ ebooks: stephaniewalter.design/blog/10-free...
Check my curated list of 10+ ebooks: stephaniewalter.design/blog/10-free...
My favorite 10+ free eBooks for designers by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
My 10+ favorite free eBooks on design, information architecture, accessibility,… And there is also the option of public libraries (or universities) to access eBooks for a small fee.
stephaniewalter.design
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's the end of the year, budgets are tight, but you can still learn design and UX for free.
Check my curated list of 10+ ebooks: stephaniewalter.design/blog/10-free...
Check my curated list of 10+ ebooks: stephaniewalter.design/blog/10-free...
Happy couch potato Sunday to all the neurodivergent people, currently depleted from too much sociabilisation. Remember: taking time to recharge is not being lazy, it's self-care, to avoid burning out, especially since we might need some energy for the 31th!
December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Happy couch potato Sunday to all the neurodivergent people, currently depleted from too much sociabilisation. Remember: taking time to recharge is not being lazy, it's self-care, to avoid burning out, especially since we might need some energy for the 31th!
Happy "can you setup/repair the wifi/the printer" holidays, to everyone working in tech and spending them with family and close ones.
Joke aside, don't forget to teach them about AI scams and set up a secret safe word to ask for, in case there's a shady call/ email/ text message. Stay safe!
Joke aside, don't forget to teach them about AI scams and set up a secret safe word to ask for, in case there's a shady call/ email/ text message. Stay safe!
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Happy "can you setup/repair the wifi/the printer" holidays, to everyone working in tech and spending them with family and close ones.
Joke aside, don't forget to teach them about AI scams and set up a secret safe word to ask for, in case there's a shady call/ email/ text message. Stay safe!
Joke aside, don't forget to teach them about AI scams and set up a secret safe word to ask for, in case there's a shady call/ email/ text message. Stay safe!
A beverage goblin needs 3 drinks at a time: 1 for fun, 1 for energy & 1 to hydrate.
A book goblin needs 3 books at a time: 1 audiobook while working out, 1 ebook when she can't use/ forgets headphones, 1 paper book that is beautiful and inspirational that she can annotate.
I don't make the rules ☕📚
A book goblin needs 3 books at a time: 1 audiobook while working out, 1 ebook when she can't use/ forgets headphones, 1 paper book that is beautiful and inspirational that she can annotate.
I don't make the rules ☕📚
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A beverage goblin needs 3 drinks at a time: 1 for fun, 1 for energy & 1 to hydrate.
A book goblin needs 3 books at a time: 1 audiobook while working out, 1 ebook when she can't use/ forgets headphones, 1 paper book that is beautiful and inspirational that she can annotate.
I don't make the rules ☕📚
A book goblin needs 3 books at a time: 1 audiobook while working out, 1 ebook when she can't use/ forgets headphones, 1 paper book that is beautiful and inspirational that she can annotate.
I don't make the rules ☕📚
J'ai acheté un 1e papasan en rotin en ligne. Il était infesté de vers à bois. J'ai été remboursée.
J'en ai commandé un autre au même endroit, me disant que ça peut pas re-arriver : même souci.
Là ça fait beaucoup. On peut contacter qui pour dénoncer la vente de produits insalubres en Europe ?
J'en ai commandé un autre au même endroit, me disant que ça peut pas re-arriver : même souci.
Là ça fait beaucoup. On peut contacter qui pour dénoncer la vente de produits insalubres en Europe ?
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
J'ai acheté un 1e papasan en rotin en ligne. Il était infesté de vers à bois. J'ai été remboursée.
J'en ai commandé un autre au même endroit, me disant que ça peut pas re-arriver : même souci.
Là ça fait beaucoup. On peut contacter qui pour dénoncer la vente de produits insalubres en Europe ?
J'en ai commandé un autre au même endroit, me disant que ça peut pas re-arriver : même souci.
Là ça fait beaucoup. On peut contacter qui pour dénoncer la vente de produits insalubres en Europe ?
Reposted by Stef Walter
We need your help to bring Penpot to more languages! 🌍
We use Weblate to make it happen 🫶
Here’s all the info 👇
https://help.penpot.app/contributing-guide/translations/
We use Weblate to make it happen 🫶
Here’s all the info 👇
https://help.penpot.app/contributing-guide/translations/
02· Translations
Contribute to Penpot! Learn how to translate Penpot into your language using Weblate. Add new translations, languages, or edit existing ones today.
help.penpot.app
December 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We need your help to bring Penpot to more languages! 🌍
We use Weblate to make it happen 🫶
Here’s all the info 👇
https://help.penpot.app/contributing-guide/translations/
We use Weblate to make it happen 🫶
Here’s all the info 👇
https://help.penpot.app/contributing-guide/translations/
Dear museums, if your ticket booking system is so crappy and inaccessible that it takes me more time to book online than to queue at the counter, what's the point? Placeholders as labels, mandatory fields not marked, disabled copy pasting for emails, refresh in the middle and data loss, gosh...
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Dear museums, if your ticket booking system is so crappy and inaccessible that it takes me more time to book online than to queue at the counter, what's the point? Placeholders as labels, mandatory fields not marked, disabled copy pasting for emails, refresh in the middle and data loss, gosh...
I discovered latino brunch. I don't know if this is a thing or if that restaurant invented it, but I can never go back.
Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁
Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁
December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I discovered latino brunch. I don't know if this is a thing or if that restaurant invented it, but I can never go back.
Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁
Also I learned how to make cute cocktails 😁
I would like to remind you that the only reason I know that 10 feet approximately equals 3 meters, is because of Dungeon and Dragons.
Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁
But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.
Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁
But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.
December 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I would like to remind you that the only reason I know that 10 feet approximately equals 3 meters, is because of Dungeon and Dragons.
Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁
But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.
Let's not pretend DnD doesn't teach you useful skills 😁
But more seriously, let the kids play, the ability to create whole scenes with your imagination is amazing.
Reposted by Stef Walter
If an organization wants to learn, there are ways to become faster and more effective. But if you aren't going to do good faith design research to inform decisions, just don't bother.
Just ship what you want to ship and forgo the time faffing about with "synthetic users."
Just ship what you want to ship and forgo the time faffing about with "synthetic users."
December 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If an organization wants to learn, there are ways to become faster and more effective. But if you aren't going to do good faith design research to inform decisions, just don't bother.
Just ship what you want to ship and forgo the time faffing about with "synthetic users."
Just ship what you want to ship and forgo the time faffing about with "synthetic users."
Wow the amount of AI art in shops for Xmass is just yuuuurk. It's inconsistent. It shows. There's no effort, like half of the stuff is blurry pixel mush. It's sad. And I know most marketing teams will go "it's good enough". But nope. It's sad. And customers are already annoyed at it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Wow the amount of AI art in shops for Xmass is just yuuuurk. It's inconsistent. It shows. There's no effort, like half of the stuff is blurry pixel mush. It's sad. And I know most marketing teams will go "it's good enough". But nope. It's sad. And customers are already annoyed at it.
Oooh look I wasn't saaaaad or stressed, I just needed to lay in a giant pool filled with balls, surrounded by soft pastel light and music 😅 And nice art.
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Oooh look I wasn't saaaaad or stressed, I just needed to lay in a giant pool filled with balls, surrounded by soft pastel light and music 😅 And nice art.
When you are tired and read "fetish" instead of "festlisch" on an advertisement for clothes in German. Honestly, both worked. 😹
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
When you are tired and read "fetish" instead of "festlisch" on an advertisement for clothes in German. Honestly, both worked. 😹
#whamageddon damn it I got pawned in a small market. Made it to 14 days!
Is anyone style playing?
Is anyone style playing?
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#whamageddon damn it I got pawned in a small market. Made it to 14 days!
Is anyone style playing?
Is anyone style playing?
Hii, no weekly newsletter (or UX related posts) for the next 2 weeks, because, holidays, yeahy. Meanwhile enjoy some cute coffee with a rainbow and have a nice end of the year 🌈
(I might share some food and fun pictures here though)
(I might share some food and fun pictures here though)
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Hii, no weekly newsletter (or UX related posts) for the next 2 weeks, because, holidays, yeahy. Meanwhile enjoy some cute coffee with a rainbow and have a nice end of the year 🌈
(I might share some food and fun pictures here though)
(I might share some food and fun pictures here though)
It's been a super busy week that can be summarized into "the personas they teach you at school don't really work in enterprise UX, but with a mix of task analysis, journey mapping, knowledge gap and system mapping you can create something helpful".
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's been a super busy week that can be summarized into "the personas they teach you at school don't really work in enterprise UX, but with a mix of task analysis, journey mapping, knowledge gap and system mapping you can create something helpful".
If you need some social icebreakers, for friends, or for lovers, you can flip through those 2 decks of cards, and take turn answering the questions. Lovely idea.
www.datenightquestions.com/
www.datenightquestions.com/
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If you need some social icebreakers, for friends, or for lovers, you can flip through those 2 decks of cards, and take turn answering the questions. Lovely idea.
www.datenightquestions.com/
www.datenightquestions.com/
Place Cats is a service to get cute images of cats, as placeholders for your project. Miaou yes!
Place Cats
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of cats for use as
placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width
& height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder.
placecats.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Place Cats is a service to get cute images of cats, as placeholders for your project. Miaou yes!
Pantone’s Color of the Year Sounds About White!
Design is never neutral, and the choice of Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 signals a bigger problem...
Design is never neutral, and the choice of Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 signals a bigger problem...
Pantone’s Color of the Year Sounds About White
After the year we’ve had, going with Cloud Dancer can easily be interpreted as a piercing dog whistle.
hyperallergic.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Pantone’s Color of the Year Sounds About White!
Design is never neutral, and the choice of Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 signals a bigger problem...
Design is never neutral, and the choice of Pantone’s color of the year for 2026 signals a bigger problem...
My curated weekly newsletter is out, including reflections on why you can't make something accessible for everyone and deceptive UX patterns. Plus: design fundamentals, a retro-futurist UI component library, flags dataviz, and webzines for your inspiration!
👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...
👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My curated weekly newsletter is out, including reflections on why you can't make something accessible for everyone and deceptive UX patterns. Plus: design fundamentals, a retro-futurist UI component library, flags dataviz, and webzines for your inspiration!
👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...
👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...
The best tech innovation in the last couple of years is not AI, it's the "undo" button when you just sent an email and noticed you forgot the link/attachment. Sorry not sorry, it saved me so many times.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The best tech innovation in the last couple of years is not AI, it's the "undo" button when you just sent an email and noticed you forgot the link/attachment. Sorry not sorry, it saved me so many times.
I wonder if there's a cop show with an episode where they find hair in the hat of the person, think it's a suspect, bring the person in and it turns out it's just the person who crocheted the hat. Because gosh I think all my crochets have at least 1 hair of me in them 🤣
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I wonder if there's a cop show with an episode where they find hair in the hat of the person, think it's a suspect, bring the person in and it turns out it's just the person who crocheted the hat. Because gosh I think all my crochets have at least 1 hair of me in them 🤣