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Eric Bailey
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#accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.

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At the point in my career where I’m tempted to write 2,000 words about the humble brilliance of this considered and considerate approach to notification design.
An email from TRMNL HQ whose subject reads, “Your TRMNL (Eric's TRMNL) needs to be charged”. Its body reads, “hey Eric, we just detected that your "Eric's TRMNL" device has a low battery (3.17V – 14.17%), and should be charged soon. to staying focused, Ryan and the TRMNL team”. Cropped screenshot.
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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We got this toy as a gift and I’ve spent too much time today imagining what the literal version of its name would be like.
Dog Tornado. Four layers of spinning fun! A cardboard packaging flap that uses large, bold white type on a purple background. Above the text is the silhouette of a pit bull with a little illuminated lightbulb above its head.
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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not a fan of the hat
A small Havanese Poodle mix staring up at the camera with an incredulous, cockeyed expression. Only one eye is shown, the other is covered by a round hat that looks like the helmet Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece wears. It really is quite something.
December 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A two panel comic. The second panel shows Dipper Pines from the show Gravity Falls excitedly saying, "This is worthless!" while holding a strip of paper. The first panel shows a close-up shot of the strip of paper, which has been edited to show an email from Dribbble that is titled, "Introducing the new Dribbble Pro".
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Big JavaScript doesn't want you to know this One Weird Trick™
A CSS snipped that rotates a right-facing chevron icon 90 degrees when aria-expanded is set to true on a parent disclosure button. The icon is targeted via a data-icon attribute. The disclosure uses a class called `.disclosure-button`, combined with an attribute selector for `[aria-expanded="true"]`.
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Periodic reminder that you can usually buy a copy of the funny books you see in memes, and not spend a lot in doing so.
A Scholastic First Discovery book titled “Internet”. It features a young boy surfing on a keyboard, high above the Earth. He’s steering with a mouse that is inexplicably plugged into said keyboard, and has an excited expression on his face. He’s wearing blue jeans, a baggy red sweatshirt, and a backwards green baseball cap. He’s flanked by five kids also surfing behind him. Above him is a row of small illustrations of a desktop PC and monitor, a satellite, an at symbol, an envelope and letter, and a postage stamp with a picture of Saturn on it.
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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My main takeaway so far from this @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social talk about BBC app design is that Apple's liquid glass is absolute dogshit when it comes to accessibility 😬
Screenshot of a slide titled "BBC Sounds navigation". There are three rows, each containing a bottom app navigation bar. The first shows a row of labeled icons with clear contrast for both the active navigation section and inactive navigation sections. The second row shows a variant of the navigation bar where the inactive navigation sections have a low-contrast color treatment. The third row shows a liquid glass treatment for the navigation, where the contrast between the background and the foreground is difficult to discern.
September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Battle jacket weather.
A small white Havanese Poodle mix looking back at the camera like she’s smiling. She’s got brown button eyes and nose, and a little pink tongue. She’s wearing a red and white checkered harness and a denim coat with pins and patches on it. There is also a small yellow flower held up in frame, right below her face. It’s super cute.
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Nielsen Norman Group has completely lost the plot.
Digital Twins: Simulating Humans with Generative AI. Title of an article on Nielsen Norman Group's website by Raluca Budiu, posted on August 1, 2025. The article summary reads, "A digital twin is a genAI-based model of a particular individual that can be used to predict both individual and population-level preferences and behaviors." Cropped screenshot.
August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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DISCORBS WAS RIGHT THERE, COME ON
A promotional modal for Discord Orbs, with a title of the same name. The tagline reads, "Get Nitro credits and Shop favorites without spending a dime." There are then two cards, one that reads, "Earn through quests. Journey to Quest Home to start earning and grow your balance. The second card reads, "Spend in the Shop. Unlock profile cosmetics, Nitro Credits, and more - no payment required. Underneath the two cards is a call-to-action button labeled, "Earn Orbs." Cropped screenshot.
July 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A four panel meme, with each panel showing a person dressing up as a clown. The first panel has the caption, "creating content", and shows the person applying foundation. The second panel has the caption, "painstakingly choosing a creative commons license", and shows the person applying clown makeup. The third panel has the caption, "making a website to share your content", and shows the person putting on a rainbow-colored wig. The fourth and final panel has the caption, "publishing your website on an internet choked out with AI crawlers", and shows the person as a clown in full, staring at the camera.
July 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Here's a great example of how inaccessibility manifests even earlier than the design stage. Figma has rolled out a tool to create iOS-style glassomorphic effects, embedding it directly into the tooling layer. This will be awful for legibility and readability for a wide range of people.
A dialog whose title reads, "Go touch glass." Below that is instructional copy that reads, "Add glass to any frame and play with frost, light, depth, and more. Use the effect creatively in your work, or grab the iOS and iPadOS 26 kit from Apple's Community page." There are then two calls to action, one to "Explore playground" and the other "Go to UI kit". Next to the text copy is a video of how to add the effect, where a barely-visible toolbar with three buttons is getting added on top of a smartphone wallpaper showing a field of flowers. Cropped screenshot from Figma.
July 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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please, my KPIs, they're very sick
An interstitial dialog in Adobe Photoshop that reads, "Shift your perspective and hone in on edits by rotating the canvas. If you've ever found yourself tilting your head while creating in Photoshop, this trick is for you." Above the dialog's text content is a video showing how you can rotate a vertically-oriented photo of two women lying down with their heads resting on each other's shoulders, back-to-back.
July 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Ralph Wiggum waving at the camera while standing in front of some lockers, with a simple smile and vacant eyes. The text, "I'm helping" is placed below him.
July 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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made a little joke just for me
A Retro Pi custom splash screen that looks like the Neo Geo loading screen. It reads, "Retro Pi Max 330 Mega Pro-gear spec", with a raspberry icon in place of the SNK logo.
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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checkmate, atheists
A candy bar wrapper for Brach's Rocks chewy fruit candy. The packaging is 90s-tacular, with the word "Rocks" having a 3D treatment that makes them look like veiny stones. An anthropomorphic dinosaur wearing sunglasses and a letter jacket lounges on the "K" part of the word "Rocks", taking a bite out of a petrified egg. He's full of attitude.
June 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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well, that's a new one
You're in line to check out. Estimated wait time: 90 minutes. Your cart, last checked: 1:07 PM EDT. Bar soap 6 pack. Cropped screenshot from an ecommerce checkout experience.
June 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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she’s just a little guy that lives in our house
A small Havanese/Poodle mix curled up in the corner a soft dog bed. She has raised her head up to stare at the camera, with just the slightest hint of stink eye.
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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mods are asleep, post inside baseball inclusive design memes
The go-to illustration for survivor bias, showing a WWII airplane riddled with bullet holes on its wings, central body, and tail. The illustration uses black and white linework for the airplane, and red dots for the bullet holes. The Clearasil logo has been haphazardly placed on top of the airplane graphic. This is a good joke, I'm very funny you see.
May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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things I am currently obsessed with:

1. my dog
2. this clip of my dog
April 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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happy burfdayyyyyyy!
My incredible dog, Chicken. She is a small Havanese Poodle mix with fluffy and curly white, and light gray and tan hair, and brown button nose and eyes. Chicken is perched on our red couch like a little dragon, surveying her domain.
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A blue tee shirt that reads, "Do not perceive me." Below the text is a simple, hand-drawn yellow smiley face.
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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teefs
A small Havanese/Poodle mix with short curly white and gray hair, and black button eyes and nose. She is staring up at the camera and you can see her tiny bottom teeth. It looks like an awkward, forced smile.
March 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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mods are asleep, post the NIN unit heater
A gas heater unit with a black grill and white outer casing. The text, "Reznor" is printed on one of the panels in a bold red sans serif font.
February 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I made this for a Discord chat, but I like it enough that I'm sharing it here:
A two panel meme. The first panel is labeled, "Kakyoin explaining that APCA isn't normative" with the character of the same name pleading. The right panel is labeled, "The designers" and shows Jean Pierre Polnareff, Joseph Joestar, and Jotaro Kujo looking shocked. They're also wearing matching pink leather bodysuits with heart-shaped cutouts that show their pectorals, which is a very relevant detail to include.
February 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM