Rush hour fills the band with held tones; at 3 a.m. the silences grow longer. Whatever is playing now has not played before and will not play again. www.trainjazz.com/

A map showing 736 trains running from different lines. Dots marks where the train is.

Train Jazz is what happens when you mix jazz and train enthusiasm: a jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train. It’s fun and strange at the same time.
www.trainjazz.com/

Take my job, AI! by Jeff Zych The idea of AI replacing product designers isn’t scaring me. It’s actually having the opposite effect: I’m embracing it. This post is a mix of thoughts of where I’m at personally in my career, and observations on industry trends.

What do you think? #FutureOfWork #DesignCareer #ProductDesign

Some people talk about more strategic roles, but again, it means a big design maturity, which most companies don't have (yet?).

I wonder: are there other roles for designers who want real impact, not just pixel pushing?

I’m afraid that most companies will continue seeing designers as pixel pushers, and replace them with AI pixel pushers. So, in order to evolve, designers might have to shape themselves into another role.
I know a couple of us became business analysts or even PMs already.

He sees AI as a change to break away from this and get excited again about building products. He just doesn't know what it will look like.
It’s an interesting take, but I'm not 100% convinced here.

Take my job, AI! by Jeff Zych The idea of AI replacing product designers isn’t scaring me. It’s actually having the opposite effect: I’m embracing it. This post is a mix of thoughts of where I’m at personally in my career, and observations on industry trends.

Take my job, AI! On embracing being replaced by AI... wait, what?!
Jeff Zych is tired of the current state of product design where designers are powerless middlemen between PMs, engineers and business with zero power.
Yeah, I can relate with that part, I’m also feeling burnt out from this.

A screenshot of the game, with Link the main character on a boat, roaming the sea. The background has cliffs and pirate houses

Monday procrastination and fun demo: Robin Payot recreated the ocean part of Zeldan the Wind Waker using Three.js. I am very bad at this, but it's both fun and impressive.

wind-waker-threejs.com/

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Pixels of the Week – April 19, 2026 A wireframing with ASCII text tool, a 3D pumping heart bag & a beautiful river-inspired font

My curated weekly newsletter is out: a wireframing with ASCII text tool, removing before adding as design principle and how AI speeds up code but not projects. Also: a beautiful river-inspired font, some Wikipedia rabbit hole and 3D printed pumping heart bag.
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AJR 1M likes, 34K comments. "AJR - BANG! (Official Video)"

Current ear-worm. Also, the video is quite nicely done:

Also, my tool finally supports alt text on all images so I also need to hunt down all the products that don't have any, and add it. It's very hidden in their interface, but, it exists. Yeah.

So, I'm actually thinking about offering less options in my shop, for stickers. But also for cards and UX templates. The shop hasn't been doing great lately, and I wonder if I had "too many options" that get people utterly confused. I will need to work on that at some point.

Disability Rainbow Embrace diversity with this Disability Rainbow sticker, celebrating the rich complexity of human experience. From cognitive and hearing impairments to learning, mental, physical, and visual disabiliti...

So this one is getting an upgrade: shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/disability...

I also wonder if I offer too many finish options that end up confusing people.

Welcome to "I want to publish an article", but
- 1st I need to finish the workshop description linked to this article and add it to the workshop page
- also, the slides have a new version of the rainbow of disability sticker, so I need to update the ones in the shop.
So, here we go, sticker time!

Yeah I get the same impression. I wish tools were offering the option to combine, all the ones I got either as standalone or Figma plugins offer one or the other.

Screenshot of a generator that uses river curves to let you write text. Current text reads God Damn It Donut, in this special font. It's honestly hard to read. The interface offers options to modify bends, river width, turbulene, current, colors and to save the artwork.

Friday inspiration: the visit Amazonia website is beautiful (but has a lot of motion) www.visiteamazonia.com.br/en/
They also used part of the river curves to create a font, Igaratipo (it's hard to read but fun) www.visiteamazonia.com.br/en/

I love that the logo also uses this font.

What do you recommend we do then?

WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026 I am not speaking on behalf of the W3C nor the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), nor am I a member, nor does anyone who is member know I am writing this, nor do I have any insider knowledge. For years I have seen people, teams, products, organizations, and…

WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026 (5 min read): adrianroselli.com/2026/04/wcag... #Accessibility #WCAG3 #ColorContrast #A11y #UXDesign

Until then, WCAG2 contrast requirements are still the standard to follow.

As of today, WCAG3 has no confirmed contrast algorithm. APCA was only ever exploratory and was pulled from the draft in 2023. WCAG3 itself is years away, possibly 2030.

WCAG3 Contrast as of April 2026 I am not speaking on behalf of the W3C nor the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG), nor am I a member, nor does anyone who is member know I am writing this, nor do I have any insider knowledge. For years I have seen people, teams, products, organizations, and…

Time for another round of "Accessibility, colors and contrast checkers" news. If you've heard or read "just use APCA to check your mockup color contrasts, it's what WCAG3 will require", please read this by @aardrian.bsky.social

I wonder if this works for neurodivergent brains. www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/product... #Procrastination #NeurodivergentAtWork #NeurodivergentLife #Productivity #BrainScience

To get out of this, Max van IJsselmuiden suggests turning old tasks into new challenges, acknowledging this guilt emotion, and forgiving ourselves.

Now imagine that, but x100 with a neurodivergent brain, only driven by dopamine. Yup, it's a mess.

This creates an infinite cycle of shame: not working on the main task reinforces not working on it, because of the shame.

Productive procrastination — Max van IJsselmuiden Productive procrastination is real. But understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.

Our brain loves and rewards novelty, in the form of dopamine. Old tasks don't bring any. This is why we tend to avoid older tasks we need to do, and "productively procrastinate" on new tasks.

Ha the sorting the documentation is the hard part. Garbage in garbage out. I've seen people querying LLM to help with specifications based on business documentation that makes very little sense due to all the expections. It didn't go well for now at least.

Haha if the tie fits 😁

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