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Stef Walter

@stephaniewalter.bsky.social

UX Researcher & Designer, Empathy Peddler, Figma Prisoner, Button Mover. Don't take me too seriously. She/Her 🌈 https://stephaniewalter.design/ http://neurospicy.agency/

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Be Cute, Do Crime Capybara Sticker Be Cute, Do Crime β€” Capybara Edition!This capybara knows how to take it easy and still get into a little mischief. This adorable guy is living his best life, chilling in a water barrel, while proudly ...

The fox is the little gift I add to the orders so I don't currently sell it.
But you can check the other stickers on my shop including a capybara shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/be-cute-do...

01.03.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A ball of pale creme yarn, a blue crochet hook and a long narrow creme crochet swatch with small holes, including a specific one that creates little Vs between different rows

A ball of pale creme yarn, a blue crochet hook and a long narrow creme crochet swatch with small holes, including a specific one that creates little Vs between different rows

In case you were wondering the "dc/FPTC2tog, dc in next 3 sc, FPTC/TC2tog, ch 1, skip over ch1-sp, rep" is complex but very satisfying!

27.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility is Delicious: Food analogies for digital inclusion I'm always looking for ways to talk about digital inclusion without reference to legal hammers. This post gathers some yummy analogies for accessibility that can be used to raise awareness and help de...

Hungry for more accessibility analogies and metaphors related to baking? @lflegal.bsky.social has compiled some great ones. These help make thinking about accessibility more accessible to people, as they put things in terms they can relate to and understand.

www.lflegal.com/2020/05/acce...

25.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Lots of great quotable lines from @deque's Axe-con, including this gem from @stephaniewalter.bsky.social: "You can't sprinkle eggs on the cupcake after baking it. Fixing accessibility later is messy, slow, ineffective!"

www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

25.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Oooh this could be fun. I'm a serial procrastinator so I know I won't actually move my fingers into building it without a real deadline ahha

25.02.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)
YouTube video by DeadOrAliveVEVO Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)

Behold the vestibular disorder anthem that has been stuck in my head for 3 days. If I have to suffer with an earworm, I don't want to suffer alone.

Also can we bring those haircuts and make-up back?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNi...

25.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

10 minutes to live, you can still register (or catch up the replay)

25.02.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly I could do a whole 40 minutes talk on the topic of building complex accessible color palettes for B2C products but I wonder what conference would want it. It's either too niche or people will think it's too beginner as a topic

25.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Especially once you get the red for error green for success yellow for warning and blue for info there's not a lot left for the brand colors to play with πŸ˜…

We are going for blue and yellow brand, so the info needs to be another share of blue and the error another shade of yellow

25.02.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this case it was more like "it's easier to borrow yours without permission since it already works than put into the work of building our own palette"
But yeah programmatically speaking it's trickier to automate. I'm working with MUI at the moment it's nice but I'm still tweaking a lot

25.02.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yaaah, the yellow lover team hehe

25.02.2026 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And if you don’t use Figma, I’ve added links to web-based tools so you can follow along too.

25.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What to expect:
- Six accessible yellow and purple palettes, ready to use
- Step-by-step guide to building palettes in Figma
- A 19 minutes video tutorial to make my whole process easy to follow

πŸ‘‰ Read the full article + tutorial on my blog: stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

25.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

I built six WCAG-tested palettes to show that accessibility doesn’t limit creativity.

25.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of β€œAccessibility Limits Color Palettes”

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of β€œAccessibility Limits Color Palettes”

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk.
But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices.
stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

#Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

25.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

that's a hot take...

24.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰ Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

24.02.2026 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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He sucks duck dicks by the duck dock. (Corkscrew duck dicks by the duck dock, to be anatomically precise.)

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The answer is "almost anything in the kitchen in a certain quantity, or if left too long without proper storage might become toxic".

Also isn't it funny how the same thing that used to kill people in sausages is now injected under the skin for cosmetic surgery purposes?

24.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Word of advice: maybe don't annoy the woman with a poison locket, a sharp pointy hairpin, and a black cat attitude.
She's clearly reading assassin fantaisy, is a big fan of Maomao, and researched "how to poison someone with things you can find in the kitchen" just to know if that TV show plot holds.

24.02.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the mention. Also I really like this format of newsletters mixing narrative and articles it's quite nice!!

23.02.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Introduction slide to the talk How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by StΓ©phanie Walter at axe-con 2026, with an illustration of a woman smiling and watering yellow-leafed plants, one of which is in a pot marked with the universal accessibility symbol. Yellow flowers and purple leaves surround her.

Introduction slide to the talk How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by StΓ©phanie Walter at axe-con 2026, with an illustration of a woman smiling and watering yellow-leafed plants, one of which is in a pot marked with the universal accessibility symbol. Yellow flowers and purple leaves surround her.

Also, I've prepared a talk to help designers, who are tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored.
February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" : www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

23.02.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!!
It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design.
Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!

#Accessibility

23.02.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Remember the "Artificial Lack of Intelligence" episode of Silicon Valley where Gilfoyle removes his code?
Well...

gizmodo.com/amazon-repor...

23.02.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(it doesn't have to be in English either, if your art is in your native language and you can explain in a couple of sentences what it's about in English, I'll be happy to help promote it too)

23.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, in a world taken over by AI imagery, I want to use my blog and newsletter to promote people crafting amazing things. So, if you are a crafter, an artist, an illustrator, who doesn't use AI to generate your work, and want to be featured, reach out.

stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

23.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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23.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pixels of the Week – February 22, 2026

AI hype pressure, why chatbot-first UX often fails and an amazing pink moth

Pixels of the Week – February 22, 2026 AI hype pressure, why chatbot-first UX often fails and an amazing pink moth

My curated weekly newsletter is out.
This week, we look at AI hype pressure in design and dev work, why chatbot-first UX often fails, plus a pink moth break, embroidery insect art, and a reminder to use prefers-reduced-motion

πŸ‘‰πŸ» stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Have a nice week!

23.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

ooh those look nice, thanks!!

22.02.2026 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The pattern if you are curious. It's in French though:
www.joyscouture.fr/product-page...

22.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0