Julia Mnizhek
sartrcrow.bsky.social
Julia Mnizhek
@sartrcrow.bsky.social
my gosh, another endless feed place

✦ Product designer
✧ Semrush Intergalactic Design System maintainer
✦ Diving deep into web accessibility
👩‍💻 github.com/j-mnizhek
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☾ Writer at night
✍️ https://linktr.ee/mnizhek (RU)
Pinned
Accidentally opened world news while looking for references for my writing
Wow
July 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Wow 😍
💖 On my blog, I have a “Like” button that can be clicked up to 16 times, filling up on every click.

This effect uses an SVG mask. A heart-shaped window sits in front of a pink square that slides up on every click. 😄

Here’s how it works ✨
July 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
Our tools have a big impact on how we design. As the tools change, our designs change, and more importantly connections in our brain and in our hand, brain, voice get rewired.

designsystems.international/ideas/when-f...

#design #AI #Figma
When Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems International
The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make
designsystems.international
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
This week’s character is chunky, charming, and surprisingly easy to build.
If you can style a
The Squarest Frog Alive — Sunday CSS #17
YouTube video by Julia Miocene
youtu.be
July 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Was just looking for a cat stroller/carrier and found gold 😍

These photoshop mad skills made me feel so warm. The cats they picked and their poses are sooo funny and yet perfect. Got a bit nostalgic for the days when I was learning to make collages in Photoshop.
May 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Besides the cool poetry camera idea itself (poetry fan here), I especially loved the parts about partnership at work and how to truly hear another person.

Great talk 👏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWo...
Config 2025: Poetry Camera and falling back in love with technology
YouTube video by Figma
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Really like how Sara put this into words, so I want to leave it here. Great, thoughtful post, btw.
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’ve had to use Voice Control on my mac for a while, and weeeell, it’s a very interesting (and specific) experience. Lots to learn, unpredictable behavior, and the Russian command list doesn’t match the actual docs :)

Dictated and sent this tweet by voice, btw.
May 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oh, I'm also worried about losing that "finger tips feeling," so I use AI only for repetitive tasks that need a lot of manual work (especially when I'm in a hurry), or for things outside my area of expertise or ones I don’t plan to master

lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-s...
Why I stopped using AI code editors · Luciano Nooijen
In the past I used AI code editors for all of my programming, but I stopped using it and recommend others to consider this as well
lucianonooijen.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wow, what a wild data viz! 😅
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
Last talk of the day from Oliver Schöndorfer on typography and accessibility and what a fantastic talk! Excellent day from @londonwebstandards.org #SotB
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
Another great talk about whimsical a11y from @sjoy.lol at @londonwebstandards.org #SotB. Ignites my desire to do more personal site stuff again!
March 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
> All in all, 34% of aria-label uses we reviewed are likely incorrect (🥲)

wagtail.org/blog/aria-la...

#a11y #accessibility

"Challenge yourself and your coworkers to see if you can build something without invisible labels for buttons and links?"
aria-label is a letdown | Wagtail CMS
One in three aria-label implementations have likely issues
wagtail.org
March 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible.

a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
13 Days of Accessibility
Review the 13 WCAG 2.1 guidelines that web designers and developers can follow to create accessible websites.
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wow, I went through the questions, and I actually have something to say about each point. Digging through the legacy in our design system and products, and every day solving their accessibility issues is such an interesting experience.
If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing.

teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
About the Toolkit
Teach Access provides the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and skilled workforc...
teachaccess.github.io
December 6, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Fantastic comprehensive list of UI element states that users might encounter, compiled by @ericwbailey.website.

Super handy!

Especially loved the state names for draggable elements 👻

ericwbailey.design/published/al...
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
The Sorry State of States:
Today’s Figma assets show design could align better with code

medium.com/@nathanacurt...
The Sorry State of States
Today’s Figma assets show design could align better with code
medium.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Julia Mnizhek
It's December 1st, and you know what that means: For the next 24 days, we'll publish articles about HTML by 24 authors. You can read them on the website or subscribe to the RSS channel.

Enjoy!

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell
An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.
htmhell.dev
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Accidentally opened world news while looking for references for my writing
November 22, 2024 at 12:50 PM