Dog groomed, better me (studying UX @ the library)

I spent another morning in the library studying while waiting for my dog to be groomed for 3h, and I got another certificate :)

Accessibility in UI design became a topic that I cared deeply since I had an exercise about it during my bootcamp. At first I thought that adding closed captions to videos or adding an audio version to a text was like making my prototype super accessible, but the more I study about it the more deep and interesting the topic becomes. I got more information about it in the Accessibility course I took at Uxcel, but I felt that I should deep dive in this topic in a more detailed material.

This course by Liz Brown ★ is super detailed and full of examples, and her energy and positive encouragement at the end of each section made me feel a better designer for taking this course.

There are so many learnings from this course, but favourite were:

• *Check accessibility issues early in the design process and conduct (if possible) not only usability test, but also accessibility test by using the grey scale to check for colour dependence.

• Be consistent with wording and styling of buttons, links, and other interactive elements - there are best practices that Liz suggests that makes the UI looks SOOOO much better and coherent <3

• Avoid problematic colour combinations that are not well perceived by users with some visual disability - including green and brown, which I used in one of my bootcamp projects T_T Shame on me for getting inspired by an avocado...

• Speaking of visual disabilities, Liz shows plugins and other resources for designers to see their own work through the lenses of users that don't see certain colours, if no colour at all. I call this EMPATHY, level maximum.

• Data visualization should NOT rely on colour only to convey a message. During the pandemic, reading graphs became a daily ritual for so many people to check daily cases, recoveries, and deaths. If you go to your country's website to check this info, do you think it is accessible enough? Does it rely only on colours to tell each number? Please tell me!

• The recommended video on accessibility in video game designing is SO good! I stopped to think about users with colour blindness picking team Red or team Green, how the status or other information is being displayed in the screen, and how awesome design teams out there are solving these problems.

• Developers play a huge part by adding things like alt text to images, so understanding it and involving them in your design process is great overall, but it helps to make design more accessible as well.

Guys, I feel so good about this course! It's loooooong, but it's a lovely time that you spend practicing empathy and learning more about this underserved audience.

USABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY SHOULD WALK TOGETHER IN THE DESIGN PROCESS!

My dear designers, here's a link that is supposed to offer a 80% #discount for this course: https://linktr.ee/LizBrownUX

In conclusion: when I meet my dog again after his grooming, he's a different - sometimes way too different, thanks to "Summer style" - dog, and I'm a different - improved! - designer.

PS: the groomer that we trust the most is relatively far from our apartment, so it's more worthing to stay in the library than come back home ;)