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Changelog

What's new on uxspot.io

17 releases · newest first

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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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