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Stef Walter

@stephaniewalter.bsky.social

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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/

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 17h

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

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 17h

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

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

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 17h

I built six WCAG-tested palettes to show that accessibility doesn’t limit creativity. And I turned the process into a full tutorial (with video) so you can learn how to build your own accessible color palettes in Figma.

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 17h

Let’s debunk the old myth that “accessibility limits color choices.” 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.

stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm here for it, I've seen mockups in excel, very 1999 colspan rowspan style muhhaha

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 1d

Excel is a design and UX research tool. You can now fight @morganepeng.bsky.social and me on that. 💜

#uxcon2025 #uxcon #EnterpriseUX

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Let's play a game of "is it PowerPoint or a meditation app I'm about to open'". Surprise 🫢

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

Microsoft’s new Office icons are now available in TestFlight versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on iOS

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Does your work overlap with your passion?
Working in enterprise UX, I never really know how to answer that. Am I passionate about car dealerships, cranes on construction sites, custom forms, finance and banking? Nope.
But I am passionate about solving complex problems. So, it kind of does?
#uxcon

A man standing on stage at a UX conference. Behind him is a large screen showing a Venn diagram with two circles labeled Passion and Purpose overlapping in the center, with text below reading that’s the good stuff.

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Naaah chamomile is absolutely loyal good. Chaotic neutral would be like chai, but with some milk I guess 😂

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Modern products intertwine the digital and physical. We must create flexible systems.

"If accessibility is the solution, then disability is the opportunity. Disability is complex, so we must design flexible solutions." - Dave Dame

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

"One size fits one", I love this quote from Bryce Johnson's talk on adaptive and inclusive controllers for video games. But to build this, we indeed need to think beyond our own assumptions. And recognize that not everyone can use the controller with 2 hands.
#GameAccessibility #uxcon

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

I’m speaking at uxcon this week. Participants can get a nice coupon for my UX templates and stickers shop.
If you get FOMO, you can get 15% of everything, with the code UXCONWEEK25 (ends on October 12).

👉 shop.stephaniewalter.design/

Better UX. Faster Work. Fun Stickers.Ready-to-use UX research templates & toolkits to save hours. Plus: stickers (for laptops, notebooks, or just your sanity).
15% OFF everything with the code UXCONWEEK25. shop.stephaniewalter.design

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Vienna's weather wasn't nice to my throat, but the nice people from @uxtweak.bsky.social got the best goodies ever at uxcon vienna, let's hope it will help for tomorrow's talk!!

A small glass jar filled with honey in front of a conference badge reading Stéphanie Walter, Vienna UXCon. The jar label says Not all insights are sweet. Some are sticky. Harvest it all with UXTweak

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

My curated weekly newsletter is out:
- OKLCH Gradients
- Screen Readers And AI Ethics
- Boring LLMs Are The Way To Go
- Mobile Web Inspiration
- European Product Alternatives
- Brutalita Font Editor
- Accessible Flip Card Tutorial

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 2d

Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.

Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

UX so bad that it's illegal

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sometimes amazed (and annoyed) at how many typos I still have in some of my posts, even while using a plugin to check grammar and typos. Meh, welcome to low attention span non-native English speaker. Let's pretend it's on purpose to prove I'm a meat bag on an internet full of robots, okay?

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 4d

I'm technically French, but, my stomach is German, so, yeah, big fan of Abendbrot with cheese, ham and other type of charcuteries hehe.

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 4d

Ohh thank you so much, I bookmarked them to do a couple tomorrow maybe. I went to the zoo today it was quite nice too :)

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 4d

I'll check them out thanks!!!

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 4d

Okay folks i'm in Vienna next to MAK and Kunst Haus. What's fun to do? What should I eat? Any nice places for breakfast? 😁

m.in

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!!!

Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 5d

Getting ready for uxcon Vienna
- slides: checked
- stickers: checked
- new badges: checked.
- luggage: hum, work in progress 😅

I hope to meet a couple of you there!!!!

Assorted stickers and badges, featuring phrases like Talk to your users, ADHD as heck, AUDHD chaos, Tea because murder is frowned upon, and Coffee because murder is frowned upon, along with cartoon skulls, cats, and pumpkins.

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 5d

Resisting the urge to get your whole wardrobe in the luggage because you are a mood dresser and can't plan in what mood you will be next week is hard.
I envy people who can plan their clothes. I'm just so bad at this 😱

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