Pinterest shares their learnings and best practices they developed over the last year as they redesigned Pinterest to be more accessible for people who are blind and visually impaired.

Game Storming is a collection of activities you can use with your team to help solve problems, make desicions, or build processes and strategies. This website lists a ton of activities that works for any size team and even provides activites you can do online as a team. A must have resource for the facilitated leadership course.

A collection of color palettes for visual design. This resource may be helpful for providing examples of the common types of color schemes.

For UX09, Competency 3, Proficiency (or Question) 4, "I explained how to avoid designing misleading data visualizations," I used this article as a source for part of my answer. It describes 4 tactics that can be used to decieve, or if used, can decieve, so to avoid deception/misinterpretation, avoid using the four mentioned tactics.

"To keep your writing strong, make sure every word pulls its weight. Here are 31 do-nothing words and phrases to watch out for." I found this article helpful in identifying words and phrases I should remove from my writing because they don't contribute anything to it. Eliminating these words and phrases could help clarify the content you write.

For interaction designers, affordances are absolutely essential - otherwise users just wouldn't know what they can and cannot interact with. The title is about affordances but the article is mostly about signifiers. It is lists the types of signifiers and breaks each type down.

This article explains how you can use story harvesting to understand how customers use your product. Customer stories can tell you where customers find value in your product and where they struggle with your product. You can also use internal story harvesting with stakeholders to understand the business implications behind the product. This article is most relevant to the Ethnographic Research Methods course.

Color Safe is a tool to explore beautiful, accessible color palettes for your website based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

I came across this article while researching style guide deliverables. Brad Frost does a great job explaining brand identity, design language, voice and tone, writing, patterns and codes as components of a style guide deliverable. This helped me learn and understand the differences between each of those concepts and what they look like.

I found this article helpful for understanding some of the ideas around brand frameworks, brand promise, brand personality, and brand attributes for use working on UX05 Visual Design Emerging Competency 5, Proficiency 1.

This post does a good job breaking down the anatomy of grids and the different types like hierarchical, manuscript, and so on. I think it does a good job of being concise and informative.

"Everything you need to know about setting proper typography—smart quotes, apostrophes, em dashes, en dashes, accented characters and more." This cheatsheet has keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of symbols, special characters and punctuation marks.