Alena Nikolaeva

YouTube video by Figma Release Notes 2025: July Edition | Figma

Keeping up with Figma updates are overwhelming 😔 but I loved seeing Copilot in Dev Mode release notes. It’s exciting how all of the tools come together and it’s smoooth

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Going solo as a well-deserved reward after two months of hard baby work: a massage on Saturday morning ✨

“Vecinos expulsados, hosteleros estafados, ciudades sin comercio ni identidad propia pero llenas de franquicias y establecimientos de comida basura.” Y todos los centros de las cuidados iguales: supermercados express, tiendas de patos y cajeros automáticos 💔

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

“It’s entirely possible to have a solution that is technically compliant, yet unintuitive or near-impossible to use in the actual.”

You know what sounds really nice? A fresh paper version of the newsletter. I really think that’ll be the next logical step.

YouTube video by Linear Introducing Dashboards in Linear

A movie “Dashboards” 🍿 by Linear

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Tweet by @kentcdodds You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯...

Accessibility chat hours~

Please do not forget that using special "fonts" in your usernames and posts can mess with some assistive tech.

Heads up that the link contains a video example and it is PAINFUL.

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856?t=1KGRXW3dqhwhxb-5tjOgQQ&s=19

I’m horrified each time I see people write their whole names in characters (specially on instagram)ㄥ𝓲𝐊ⓔ ｔĦι𝓈 and that’s why:

Just because 'a picture means a thousand words' doesn't mean your alt text needs to be a thousand words long.

#a11y #Accessibility

No yes/no questions - Effortmark Questions that only have the answers 'yes' or 'no' can be difficult for people to answer. Avoid them.

“I constantly see yes/no questions in live forms, and in forms studios, and there are almost always other answers, such as:

- not sure
- don’t know
- neither
- both…”

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I need to go back with the sleeping baby go figure this out 🤨

Aww that’s so sweet! Definitely, a smile helps more than eye rolling

Yes! I never know where I’d get the weird looks just because of having a baby in places or that there will be happy to see her. And it’s not 50/50, more like 80/20…

I went to the coffee shop (the usual overpriced fancy specialty coffee one) yesterday and wanted to stay for a little while. The barista asked if the baby was asleep. I still wonder what would happen if she wasn’t asleep? I wouldn’t be allowed to stay? First laptops not allowed. Now babies. 🫠

being the first designer at a company 🫢

Esto de cara a las multas por accesibilidad es muy raro

Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Products from the Ground Up Here's where accessibility reveals its hidden superpower: it forces you to understand the purpose of everything in your product. You can't write meaningful alt text without knowing exactly why an imag...

“This isn't about visual layouts—it's about information architecture that makes sense to all users, regardless of how they interact with your product.”

Accessible by Design 🔗

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“We should be on the lookout for ranked-order comparison between automated systems and people. [..] Software systems are tools, which people use to do things. We wouldn’t say host hammers have a “superhuman” ability to drive in nails.[…] It matters what words we use when we talk about technologies.”

Find Digital Accessibility Jobs on A11yjobs.com Discover top jobs in digital accessibility, including web accessibility, ARIA, WCAG, Section 508, ADA compliance, and more. Join the A11y community with roles on a11yjobs.com.

Looking for a digital accessibility job? Or looking to hire someone for an accessibility role? A11yjobs is a digital accessibility job board.

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Thanks to my baby needing to wake up at 5:30 every day (no, she doesn’t have dentist appointments), she’s helped me develop the habit of reading at 8:00 in the park. Thanks baby ❤️

Bonus Episode: Shani Sandy, VP, Experience Design at IBM, live in NYC for UserTesting's THiS Connect Tour Design Better · Episode

A lot of great points on designing for AI vs designing for trust issues in this episode from design teams perspective

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Este hilo está cargado de felicidad, se siente! Enhorabuena amiga 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Los principios de accesibilidad web, en mi opinión, mejor escritos imposible

Murcia 💔

You can't technofix your way out of a values problem

Accessible Games Initiative Tags Now Available Across All Digital Xbox Experiences - Xbox Wire Accessible Games Initiative tags are now available across all digital Xbox experiences. Check out an interview with Xbox’s Brannon Zahand and accessibility advocate Steve Saylor to learn more.

Newly formed Accessible Games Initiative […] help the more than 429 million players with some form of disability identify the accessibility features available in a specific game, before they make a purchase. ❤️

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My dad

So many ranges, so little time: A cheatsheet of animation-ranges for your next scroll-driven animation Background If you’re new to scroll-driven animations, welcome!

New blog post just dropped!

Animation-range cheatsheet for scroll-driven animations: webkit.org/blog/17184/s...

All the values for animation-range broken down with detailed graphics. Hope it's helpful ❤️

My LinkedIn algorithm is showing AI-related posts only, it’s insufferable