This week, we share some accessibility gut checks that designers should think through before moving into high fidelity mocks. We also talk about industrial design and video game hardware in this week's Sidebar, plus we share our cool things as always!

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In this week's Sidebar, we talk about video game console design, how controllers have changed, the evolution of gameplay sensors, and our hot takes on which console we are likely to buy.

Follow-up:

• Ola Drachal shared some shameful early work! There's a full Medium post with all the pixels - thank you for sharing.
• Jacob Collier can make some pop music, too.
• Rowan Adams shared Complicit by Default that provides useful context about what's happening in the world. It's not enough to be "not racist" any more.
  • Learn more about Juneteenth
  • More resources on what to read and where to donate to support Black causes.

Listener Question:

• Matt B. Cool asks: "What are some not as obvious accessibility wins we can look for early on as we move into high fi prototyping? Going beyond checking for good color contrast, font-size, touchable space etc."
  • Know the platform
    • Human Interface Guidelines on Accessibility
    • Material Design's Accessibility docs
    • MDN web accessibility docs
  • Space and motion
  • Media types
  • UI shape
  • Words are hard
    • Learn more about Bidirectionality

Cool Things:

• Brian shared Children of Time, a fun (but long) world-building sci-fi story. Marshall also read this, and we both love it. The sequel, Children of Ruin is on deck.
• Marshall shared an interview with the Dwarf Fortress creator with a very fun bug hunting story.
  • Kruggsmash is a video creator who creates adventures within Dwarf Fortress' infinite worlds.

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