Changelog

What's new on uxspot.io

22 releases · newest first

  1. Everything uxspot makes, in one menu

    • A new Products menu, first in the navigation, gathers what uxspot makes: the Figma plugin, the MCP server, and Scrollwork, the open-source scroll motion engine, with uxdeck, the design canvas with a UX coach beside you, coming soon. Each one comes with a line on what it is for.
    • The open-source ones show their GitHub stars right next to them, instead of one unexplained count in the header.
    • On your phone, the menu now has a Products section and a Learn section, so the curriculum, checklists, glossary, tools and practice stay one tap away.
    • The About page now introduces uxdeck, and says plainly who writes and builds uxspot.

  2. Start a booking on your phone, finish it on your laptop

    • If you set up a sponsorship and the payment never goes through, uxspot now emails you a link that reopens your booking exactly as you left it — the placement, the dates, your credit line and your logo, all still there. Nothing was charged, and nothing is lost when you close the tab.
    • You get at most two of these: one the day after, one a few days later, each with a one-click link to stop them. There is no mailing list to be added to, and nothing you type before pressing the payment button is ever sent to uxspot.
    • The email is straight with you about the one thing that matters: an unpaid booking does not hold your dates. The placement is exclusive, so if someone else pays for that window first, the follow-up says so plainly and offers the dates that are actually open instead.
    • Changed your mind halfway through? A new "Start over" button clears the whole form and takes you back to the first step — it asks first, so a stray tap cannot wipe your details.
    • Booking a sponsorship on a laptop or a big screen now happens side by side: the placement cards, the calendar and the form sit on the right, while a quiet left-hand column carries a hand-drawn mark from the uxspot Figma plugin and a line lifted straight from the Learn UX curriculum — a different one for every step you reach.
    • Phones and small windows are untouched: the booking flow stays the single, focused column it has always been, and none of the animation is even downloaded there. Ask for reduced motion and the mark simply arrives already drawn.

  3. Sponsor uxspot.io without a single email

    • The sponsor page now books itself: pick a placement, choose your start date from the ones actually free, and pay by PayPal — the completed insertion order lands in both inboxes the moment payment clears.
    • Dates already taken are simply not offered, the founding rate is shown next to the standard one, and the terms you accept are the same short, honest ones published on the sponsor page. One sponsor at a time, always labeled, never editorial.

  4. The glossary learns to draw in your terminal

    • Ask your AI assistant to define a UX term through the uxspot MCP server and, for 37 spatial concepts, it now answers with a hand-drawn diagram — the Z-pattern traced in box art, the journey map with its emotional dip, the 60-30-10 split in proportion. Terms that need color, motion or interaction point to their live example instead.
    • Definitions over MCP also carry the full story now: why the concept matters in practice and the honest reference numbers, not just the one-liner.
    • The MCP server page shows the diagrams in a scrolling terminal showcase, and the homepage deals a different drawn definition on every visit.
    • On mobile, the glossary term sheet is taller, keeps its pager pinned while you read, and shows which term you are on once you scroll into it.

  5. The uxspot plugin lands on Figma Community, and every glossary term grows up

    • Our Figma plugin is now one click away: install it from Figma Community and get a design mentor over your shoulder — it reads the frame you are working on and surfaces one evidence-based finding at a time, from real contrast arithmetic to tap-target sizes, with the reasoning and sources attached.
    • A new Figma page on the site introduces the plugin with a playable miniature canvas — drag the handles, break the rules, and watch the plugin panel respond exactly the way the real one does.
    • All 203 glossary terms now go beyond the definition: each one explains why it matters in practice, and dozens carry honest numbers and live, interactive examples — try a real skeleton loader, break a layout’s unity, or feel Fitts’s law with a timer. The examples show up right in the term panel on desktop and mobile, no extra tap needed.
    • On mobile, glossary terms now page with chevrons inside the bottom sheet, so you can walk a whole letter without closing it.

  6. See how far you have read, at a glance

    • Each topic in the sidebar now carries a small progress ring that fills as you read down an article — so anything you started shows, at a glance, how far you got. Finished topics keep their checkmark.
    • A new "Get in touch" section on the About page, with a direct line to reach us.

  7. A built-in accessibility toolkit

    • New tool — a Colour Blindness Simulator at uxspot.io/color-blindness: drop in a palette and see it the way people with colour vision deficiency do, with a heads-up whenever two colours become hard to tell apart.
    • It sits next to the WCAG Contrast Checker as a pair of free, in-browser accessibility tools — nothing to upload, nothing leaves your device. Both are one tap away from the Tools page.
    • A brighter Play button on Spot Check, and small polish across the Practice and Tools pages.

  8. A proper home for Spot Check

    • The Spot Check page now has a real front door: a scrolling walkthrough of how the game works, the rules in a sentence, the numbers behind it, and your daily habit — instead of dropping you straight into a run.
    • Hit Play from the hero (or the "Play" cards anywhere on the site) and the game launches just like before.

  9. Share your Spot Check score anywhere

    • Finished a run? The result screen now has real share buttons — LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp, or copy the link — plus your phone’s own share sheet when it’s available.
    • Every shared score gets its own little page and a branded preview card, so when friends see it in their feed they get your grid and a "can you beat it?" nudge that drops them straight into today’s run.

  10. Spot Check — the daily vocabulary game

    • There is a new game: Spot Check, now in the top menu (Practice) and at its own home, uxspot.io/practice. It shows you a term and a definition and asks one thing — does it fit? Tap the left of the screen for yes, the right for no.
    • Ten calls in a row, and it is sudden death: one wrong answer ends the run, so getting all ten is the goal. A fresh run lands every day.
    • Finish and you get a shareable score and a running streak to compare with friends — plus, when you slip, a quick note on what the term really meant. Every answer also tunes which terms come back to you.
    • Want to keep going? A no-limit Endless practice mode plays the same way without the sudden death, leaning on the terms you keep missing.
    • A "Play today's run" card now shows up around the site — on the homepage and the glossary — with your streak and today's score, so you can jump back in from anywhere.

  11. Practice, promoted — and small reading comforts

    • The glossary practice is now easy to find: a "Practice the vocabulary" card sits right under the term panel on the glossary page — on your phone, it rides at the bottom of the term sheet.
    • The suggestion card in the sidebar and menu now rotates: flip between the checklists tip and the new glossary practice invite with the dots beneath it.
    • On phones, the little "Ink Mode" welcome note no longer lets the lesson text show through it.

  12. Seven upgrades for the tech-savvy reader

    • The curriculum now remembers your journey: finished topics get a quiet check in the sidebar, chapters show how far you are, and the homepage offers to continue right where you left off.
    • Save the whole Learn UX course to your device from the Display & Reading sheet — every topic reads offline, planes included.
    • Listen to any lesson: a headphones button reads it aloud, highlighting each paragraph as it goes. Built as an accessibility feature, useful to everyone.
    • The ⌘K palette now takes action, not just searches: switch the theme, enter Ink Mode, resize text, or copy a page as Markdown.
    • Practice the vocabulary: glossary flashcards with light spaced repetition at uxspot.io/glossary/practice — plus a term of the day.
    • Select any passage in a lesson and copy a link that scrolls and highlights it for whoever opens it.
    • The changelog has an RSS feed: uxspot.io/rss.xml.

  13. Ink Mode — read like a book

    • Every Learn UX lesson now has Ink Mode: one tap (or the F key) and everything but the lesson fades away — no menus, no panels, just the words with larger, comfortable type. Leave with Esc or the exit chip, and it remembers your choice for the next lesson.
    • It reads like a Kindle: a quiet "About 4 min left" keeps you oriented, and if you leave mid-lesson, Ink Mode reopens right where you stopped.
    • Need the menu? Nudge your cursor against the top of the screen (or tap up there on your phone) and the navigation slides down; move away and it slips back out of sight.
    • Even outside Ink Mode, reading got calmer: as you scroll down a lesson, the side panels fade back so the text has the stage — move toward them or scroll up and they return.
    • First time on a lesson? A small note points out the Ink Mode button so you know it exists — dismiss it once and it never returns.

  14. The big polish: mobile pass, MCP page scenes & this changelog

    • The header slides away while you read and returns the moment you scroll back up — on every page, playing nicely with the "On this page" panel and the menu drawer.
    • Menu drawer refresh: warm frosted-glass surface, a staggered reveal for its links, a Home entry, and the GitHub star counter now visible on phones.
    • Search dismisses with the same animation it opens with — and closing it no longer nudges your reading position. Same fix for the Display & Reading sheet.
    • The site tells you when a new version is available — one tap on Refresh updates it. No more mystery stale pages.
    • MCP Server page, rebuilt in two acts: a pinned "anatomy of one call" scene — grid stage, floating annotation cards, live latency meter — and a draggable stats carousel with the repository's real numbers.
    • The MCP charcoal takeover now plays on phones too, with seamless bars (a subpixel gap between them is gone).
    • Hero headlines got their signature: "in one spot" and "your AI assistant can call" set in Roslindale italic with an animated hatched shadow; a radial clearing keeps the dotted grid out of the copy's way.
    • The interactive dot grid now responds to touch and is actually visible on phones.
    • Tools and Changelog pages centered into a readable column; Tools category titles condense into floating frosted pills as you scroll.
    • Glossary on mobile: the A–Z rail sits clear of the header, term sheets close cleanly, and the page head stepped aside.
    • New mobile footer: wordmark, Changelog / Privacy / Cookie / Terms links, About, and a copyright line.
    • This changelog page — bookmarked in the footer and the menu drawer.

  15. The 2026 redesign lands

    • New homepage: interactive dotted hero, live repository numbers, and a peek into every collection.
    • Refreshed brand and a floating Liquid Glass header capsule carrying navigation, search, GitHub and settings.
    • Template library: every canvas and worksheet from the curriculum, browsable and searchable from the search sheet.
    • The glossary A–Z bar and the article "On this page" list moved inside the header capsule on desktop — one pill, everything in it.
    • A full SEO pass across the site: richer titles, descriptions and social cards.

  16. MCP Server page & mobile foundations

    • The MCP Server page gained its animated hero, a full-screen chat scroll sequence, and dark "charcoal" second act.
    • A live GitHub star counter joined the header, site-wide.
    • Glossary terms open as a draggable bottom sheet on phones.
    • The mobile menu now unfolds from the header pill — hamburger morphing into a close button — with an Install app button when your browser offers it.

  17. Glossary v2

    • Master–detail glossary: browse all 198 terms on the left, read the full definition on the right — related terms, deep links into the curriculum, and an "ask your assistant" prompt included.
    • Every term became its own citable page with a shareable URL.
    • The MCP page picked up scroll-driven showcases of everything the server can reach.

  18. uxspot MCP server

    • Your AI assistant can now answer UX questions from uxspot.io directly: glossary, tools, checklists and curriculum served over MCP — no key, no account, one endpoint.
    • Seven read-only tools: search and define glossary terms, browse the tools directory, read the checklists, and search the curriculum.
    • A landing page with copy-paste install for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and any MCP client.

  19. Checklists app & 2026 toolbox

    • Checklists became a three-pane app: pick a list, tick items as you ship, and your progress saves in the browser.
    • Print any checklist to PDF, checkbox states included.
    • The tools directory was rebuilt for the AI era — 42 hand-picked tools across six categories, no affiliate links.
    • The About page got its redesign, and glossary letter-jumps landed exactly where they should.

  20. Installable, offline, private

    • uxspot.io became an installable app that works offline — add it to your home screen or dock.
    • Analytics went cookieless: no banners, no tracking, nothing to consent to.
    • Display & reading settings from the header cog: theme, text size, line spacing, font and reduced motion — each choice remembered.
    • An accessibility pass across the site: full-contrast text everywhere, keyboard-friendly dialogs, minimum tap targets.

  21. The repository takes shape

    • Documentation-style reading experience: the sidebar curriculum, ⌘K search, reading times and per-article table of contents.
    • A coherent monochrome design language with the signature marker-pen highlight sweeping through articles as you scroll.
    • Article pages gained Copy Page, previous/next navigation, and hashtag keywords.
    • Real 404s instead of soft redirects, and clean URLs across the old static pages.

  22. Rebuilt on a modern stack

    • The 2021 site was rebuilt from the ground up on Astro + Cloudflare — faster everywhere.
    • All 35 Learn UX articles migrated with their images, typography and reading order intact.

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